Venue: Grainville, St Saviour
Date: Saturday 27th July 2013
Toss: Won by Nigeria
Match Type: 50 over each – 10 maximum
Result: No result
Umpires: R.J Bailey, MB Grady
3rd Umpire: RL. Stockton
Scores: KC. Nisbet, CN Rawson
Referee: DT Jukes
Weather: Cloudy then wet
Nigeria was nearly there – Match abandoned
Drama, rains, restart, delayed, more rains, nervous waiting and abandonment.
The calculation was clear to the Nigerian contingent. Defeat Argentina and qualify to division 5. But wait a minute. There is also the small matter of the match between Jersey and Vanuatu. Nigeria was very hopeful Jersey will beat Vanuatu. Nigeria winning the toss took the field hoping for an early breakthrough, but it was not to be. The Argentine pair of Williams and Paterlini survived The Nigerian bowling fireworks to take the score To 49 runs for the loss of no wicket.
Olympio struck to remove Paterlini caught Olatunji. The next
wicket fell a run later when WK Sharma caught Musiani for nought off Adegbola. Adegbola and Osita Onwuzulike both applied brakes to The Argentine innings bagging 3 wickets and bowling 10 overs each. Leke Oyede as usual kept up the pressure with his nagging line and length. Argentina folded at 144 runs all out in 46.3 overs, The Nigerian bowlers were Profligate conceding 22 runs which included 17 wides.
Nigeria began their quest for victory and ultimate glory with the pair of Ofem and Olayinka. Ofem was run out and Onikoyi came in and the rains came down. The total was 26 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in 6 overs. The rains came at 2.29 pm. The re-start was delayed and the umpires called off the match at 5.3Opm. For Nigeria the victory parade was postponed. For Argentina, they lived to fight another day.
