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Hosts Kenya put on an all-round performance to beat Nigeria by 30 runs as the Kenya-Nigeria Bilateral series bowled off at the Nairobi Sikh Union ground on Friday afternoon with the first T20 match.<\/strong><\/p>\n After winning the toss, Kenya posted 159 for 6 a target that proved to be daunting for the West African side who ended on 130 for the loss of nine wickets<\/p>\n Sachin Bhudia was the star with the bat for Kenya with 50 that came off the last ball of Kenya\u2019s inning before the bowlers stepped up to restrict the visitors.<\/p>\n Kenya made little change from the team that played in their last match of the just concluded Kenya Quad T20 Cup with skipper Rakep Patel sitting out once again.<\/p>\n Openers Neil Mugabe and Rushab Patel seemed to have a good start but that was short lived when Rushab was brilliantly caught at mid-off 14 in the third over. Kenya lost Mugabe (28) and Nelson Odhiambo (20) to stand at 73 for 3 after 9 overs.<\/p>\n Bhudia and Shem Ngoche (13) got the scores to 96 after 11 and at this time it looked like Kenya would not put on a fighting score until Jasraj Kundi (21) stepped in with a sixth wicket stand of 57 runs in 7.2 overs.<\/p>\n Skipper Sylveter Okpe who picked two of the three top wickets was the highlight of Nigeria bowling with 3 for 22.<\/p>\n Prosper Usemi added 2 for 31.<\/p>\n In reply, Nigeria struggled to build partnerships as Kenyan bowlers led by the spinners broke into their batting lineup at regular intervals. Nigeria were on 46 for 4 after seven overs before Prosper Useni (31) held up the\u00a0 inning to lead Nigeria past the 100 mark.<\/p>\n Ngoche, Gerald Mwendwa and Peter Koech were the pick of Kenyan bowlers with two wickets each.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Cricket: Kenya beats Nigeria in bilateral series<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Hosts Kenya put on an all-round performance to beat Nigeria by 30 runs as the Kenya-Nigeria Bilateral series bowled off at the Nairobi Sikh Union ground on Friday afternoon with the first T20 match. After winning the toss, Kenya posted 159 for 6 a target that proved to be daunting for the West African […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}