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Day 1 matches were played on Monday 16th with the following results: | (2009-02-18 )

Ten states are participating in the Cricket event at the on-going National Sports Festival

taking place in Kaduna. The states are Ogun(current champions), Lagos,  Edo, Delta, Kaduna,

FCT(Abuja), Kebbi, Anambra, Rivers and Kano.

The tournament format is a round-robin(30-over) league in two groups with the first two placed states

In each group going into the semi-final stages.

The groups are as follows:

A-     Ogun, Lagos, Delta, Anambra and Kano

B-      Kaduna, Kebbi, Edo Rivers and FCT(Abuja)

Day 1 matches commenced on Monday 16^th with the following  results:

GROUP A:

Lagos State defeated Delta State by 44 runs

Lagos 182 for 9 wickets in 30 overs(Leke Oyede 82 , Friday Udoh 3 wickets for 21 runs)

Delta 138 for 9(Ojulowo 56, Oghenekevwe 24; Taiwo Bakare 2 wickets for 23 runs)

Ogun State defeated Anambra State by 59 runs

Ogun 147 for 7 wickets in 30 overs(R. Adesanya 23)

Anambra 87 all out( James Chukwu 2 wickets for 14 runs)

GROUP B:

Kaduna State defeated Edo State by 10 wickets

Edo 61 all out(Dahiru Enesi 3 wickets for 8 runs)

Kaduna 62 for no loss(A. Samuel 27, Joseph Michael 18)

Kebbi State defeated FCT by 2 wickets

FCT 108 all out(O. Uche 40; I. Mohammed 6 wickets for 22 runs)

Kebbi 109 for 8 wickets(Y. Peter 2 wickets for 10 runs)

Tables at end of Match day 1

GROUP A

Ogun  State 2pts

Lagos State 2pts

Kano State 0pt

Delta State 0pt

Anambra State 0pt

GROUP B

Kaduna State 2pts

Kebbi State 2pts

Rivers 0pt

FCT 0pt

Edo 0pt