Match Prediction
Game No. 7 sees Nigeria and Ghana in action as they go head to head for only the 2nd time in T20Is. Nigeria are comfortably placed 2nd on the points tally with 2 wins from 2 games and are the firm favourites to make it 3 wins from 3, while Ghana are at the bottom of the table with them having failed to win either of the 3 games so far
H2H
Nigeria secured a comfortable 9 wicket victory with 10+ overs to spare in the only H2H meeting between these 2 sides
Top Performances H2H
Lilian Ude (NGA), Bowler- RAM: 4-1-8-3
Favour Eseigbe (NGA), All Rounder- RHB/RALB: 4-0-14-3
Top Performers at Venue
Favour Eseigbe (NGA), All Rounder- RHB/RALB
Inns- 7 | Wkts- 12 | Avg- 6 | SR- 13
Lilian Ude (NGA), Bowler- RAM
Inns- 6 | Wkts- 9 | Avg- 11 | SR- 13
Salome Sunday (NGA), Batter- RHB
Inns- 5 | Runs- 152 | Avg- 51
Rashidatu Salia (GHA), All Rounder- RHB/OS
Inns- 7 | Wkts- 5 | Avg- 23 | SR- 22
Emmanuella Nyaaba (GHA), Bowler- RAM
Inns- 6 | Wkts- 5 | Avg- 22 | SR- 21
Top Picks
Emmanuella Nyaaba (GHA), Bowler- RAM
- She’s the only Ghana bowler to have picked a wicket in each of the 3 games so far
- She has registered identical bowling figures of 2-0-15-1 in each of the previous 2 games
- She’s Ghana’s joint highest wicket-taker at the venue: Inns- 6 | Wkts- 5 | Avg- 22 | SR- 21
Rukayat Abdulrasaq (NGA), Bowler- RAM
- She’s Nigeria’s joint highest wicket-taker in the tournament with 4 wickets at a stunning average of 3.75
- She registered brilliant figures of 4-0-9-2 in the previous game
- Her career bowling average of 9.21 is the 2nd best by a Nigerian bowler
Cynthia Konadu (GHA), Bowler- LAM
- She was unlucky to have not picked a wicket in the previous game, having bowled an exceptional spell of 4-1-3-0
- She’s picked 2 wickets at an average of 27 in this tournament
- She’s picked 3 wickets at an average of 31 at this venue
Lucky Piety (NGA), All Rounder- RHB/OS
- She’s bowled in only 2 innings across her 10 game long T20I career, and has picked wickets on both occasions
- She registered figures of 4-0-16-1 in the previous game
- She’s Nigeria’s joint highest run-getter in the tournament with 22 runs
Differential Picks
Lilian Ude (NGA), Bowler- RAM
- Her career best bowling figures of 4-1-8-3 came against this very opposition
- She has a very good record at the venue: Inns- 6 | Wkts- 9 | Avg- 11 | SR- 13
- She has been amongst the wickets in both the games in this tournament
Komalpreet Grewal (GHA), All Rounder- RHB/RAM
- She’ll open the bowling for Ghana
- She registered career best figures of 3-0-19-2 in the previous game
- She’s Ghana’s leading run-getter in the tournament with 36 runs at an average of 18
Rashidatu Salia (GHA), All Rounder- RHB/OS
- She registered career best bowling figures of 4-0-19-3 in the previous game
- She’s Ghana’s joint-leading wicket-taker at the venue: Inns- 7 | Wkts- 5 | Avg- 23 | SR- 22
- She’s one of the only 3 Ghana batters to have scored 50+ runs in T20Is
Peculiar Abgoya (NIG), Bowler- RAM
- She’ll open the bowling for Nigeria
- She had a very good outing in the 1st game, registering figures of 3-1-10-1
Safe Captaincy Pick
Favour Eseigbe (NGA), All Rounder- RHB/RALB
- She was the POTM in the previous game for her impressive bowling figures of 3-0-4-3
- She registered figures of 4-0-14-3 in the only previous H2H meeting between these 2 sides
- She’s Nigeria’s 2nd highest wicket-taker in T20Is with 27 wickets at an average of 12.37
Differential Captaincy Pick
Rachael Samson (NGA), Bowler- RAM
- She’ll operate in the PP as well as at the death
- She’s Nigeria’s all time leading wicket-taker in T20Is: Inns- 35 | Wkts- 29 | Avg- 17 | SR- 22
- She bowled a very good spell of 3-0-8-1 in the previous game
Base Team
WK: Lucky Piety
BAT: Komalpreet Grewal, Salome Sunday
AR: Favour Eseigbe, Cynthia Konadu
BOWL: Emmanuella Nyaaba, Rukayat Abdulrasaq, Rachael Samson, Lilian Ude
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