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INDOMIE TRAIN MOVES TO SECOND ROUND | (2009-01-28 )

The National Secondary Schools Cricket Tournament sponsored by Dufil

Prima Foods Plc, manufacturers of Indomie noodles enters its second

round from this week with six zonal finals to be decided in Lagos, Abeokuta,

Warri, Owerri, Abuja  and Ibadan.

The first round had produced states schools champions in ten out of the

twelve participating states leaving Lagos and Ogun States that are treated

as standalone zones for this tournament due to the large number of cricket-

playing schools in them

 In the Lagos Zonal final, St Gregory’s College, Obalende will engage Obele

Community High School, Surulere on Wednesday, 21^st January, 2009 at the

Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) oval.  

 For the Ogun Zonal finals, Comprehensive High School, Aiyetoro will do battle

with African Church Grammar School, Abeokuta and Ijemo Titun High School,

Abeokuta from Thursday 22^nd to Saturday 24^th January, 2009 to determine the

Zonal champion.

 For the South-South Zonal finals which will take place over the weekend(24^th/

25^th January, 2009), Western Boys’ high School, Benin will engage Stella Maris

College, Port Harcourt and Federal Government College, Warri(FGCW) at the

FGCW grounds in Warri to determine the zonal champion.

The South-East Zonal finals will be played at the Government Secondary School,

Owerri with the host school squaring up with Government College, Umuahia and  

Bishop Crowther Seminary School, Awka from 24^th to 25^th January, 2009.

In the Northern Zonal final, hosts Loyola Jesuits College, Abuja will slog it out with

Braintrust Secondary School, Kaduna on 31^st January/1^st February, 2009.

Finally the South-West Zonal final between hosts Government College, Ibadan and

Ilesha Grammar School, Ilesha to be played over the weekend of 31^st January and

1^st February, 2009.

The tournament which has been revived after over ten years is facilitated by the

Nigeria Cricket Federation(NCF) and is expected to serve as the nursery of talent

For future U-13, U-15, U-17 and U-19 national cricket teams.

The innovation introduced by the NCF is that after the second round, subsequent

rounds will be played by zonal teams selected from the best talent in each zone as

opposed to the current school representation. It is expected that this will produce

stronger zonal teams thereby raising the standard of the competition.

The final round is expected to be played in Lagos in March, 2009.