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Africa’s foremost Cricket Blog, TheMiddleStump, has announced the lineup of panelists for the August edition of the Africa Cricket Roundt...
It is half year but cricket action is not slowing down; and even in the middle of a rainy season when all the leagues are on break, there...
The Middlestump has announced the panelists for the July edition of Africa Cricket Roundtable jointly hosted with the Nigeria Cricket Fed...
The Captain of the Nigeria men’s Cricket Team, Sylvester Okpe has said the recent one-month players’ exchange programme that involved him...
When a child trips, he continues on his way. When an elder stumbles, he goes back to examine the cause of his missteps. Probably to remov...
Dear Cricket Nigeria, It is with utmost pleasure that I am sending this heartfelt note to you across the continent. I would have handed y...
On Friday, the Nigeria Women’s cricket Team rounded off their 8th Kwibuka campaign with a win over Brazil to claim fifth place at the Gah...
The President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Uyi Akpata has arrived in Rwanda's capital city to drum up support for the Women’s natio...
The Nigeria Cricket Federation has partnered with Africa’s leading Cricket Media organization, TheMiddlestump to stage a virtual cricket ...
The Nigeria Women’s Cricket Team, Female Yellow-Green lost for the first time in the ongoing 8th Kwibuka Women’s T20 Tournament on Sunday...
The Yellow-Greens continued their fine form at the KwibukaT20 Women’s Cricket Tournament in Kigali, Rwanda as they made it three wins in ...
Nigeria Women’s cricket team made it 2 wins out of 2. This time against Germany in the historic first-ever meeting between the 2 sides af...
With the ball in hand, her glide is graceful, and her deliveries are smooth. With the bat in hand, her stance is intimidating and her str...
The beautiful skies over the Gahanga Cricket Stadium and the lush green of the IPRC cricket ground flagged off the 8th edition of the Kwi...
The Nigeria national Women's Cricket team, Female Yellow-Greens shoved aside the Brazilian Women’s team in their opening match of the ong...
Fifty two weeks ago it was when we took you with us across the continent over to Kigali for the Kwibuka Tournament. We hope you have your...
The International Cricket Council has announced the Nigeria Cricket Federation winner of the Cricket 4 Good Social Impact Initiative of t...
Three National Senior Men's team, Isaac Okpe, Sylvester Okpe and Sesan Adedeji are in South Africa for the Player Placement Program by th...
The Head Coach of Nigeria’s Women's Cricket team, Leke Oyede has said his goal is to win enough matches to climb a new height on the Inte...
Nigeria’s Women Cricket team, ‘FemaleYellow-Greens’ will depart the country to stake a claim for this year’s 7th Kwibuka Women’s T20 tour...
Seventeen-year-old Rukayat Abdulrazaq and 23-year-old Sarah Etim have received their maiden call-up to the national cricket women’s team ...
I have an interesting question to ask but before I do, Let me share some exciting news that you may have read about and some statistics y...
Leke Oyede, coach of Nigeria’s senior women's cricket team, said the team is optimistic ahead of the 8th Kwibuka T20 Cricket Invitational...
Yesterday, we lost Tunde Elliot AKA “Baba Dealer” to the cold hands of death. I know many are still in disbelief. If you have been to the...
As a competitor, I should not typically be heralding the success of my rivals. But I am first a cricket lover and I appreciate good team ...
To some, it is no longer news. To some others, it is still a reality they are unwilling to accept. The head coach of the national men's s...
The last couple of years has been very busy for the Nigeria Cricket Federation. With landmark activities that are presently reshaping how...
When the news broke that the National Head Coach and High-Performance Manager, Asanka Gurusinha had resigned due to health reasons, fans,...
The adjectives; electrifying, nerve-racking, scintillating, and exhilarating barely describe the events of that afternoon in April. Seven...
No, this has nothing to do with colonialism. We’ll help you. The female cricket teams of both nations lost in final matches to their fier...
Hardly will you find the words ‘war’ and ‘party’ in the same sentence…but here we are presenting both to you in just the title alone. The...
Welcome to a new month and the second quarter of the year. It has been an eventful year so far and these events keep tumbling in one afte...
The Nigeria Women’s team at the ongoing Nigeria Cricket Federation T20i Invitational in Lagos overran the Ghanaian Women’s team for a thi...
With two victories in the bag, Nigeria will resume the Nigeria Cricket Federation Women’s T20I Invitational Cricket title chase on Friday...
A half-century by Nigeria’s Salome Sunday was instrumental to Nigeria’s 41 runs victory against West African rivals Sierra Leone at the A...
Nigeria’s leading bank, Access Bank PLC has thrown its weight behind the NCF Women’s T20I Invitational that starts at the Tafawa Balewa S...
The first ball of the Nigeria Women T20I Invitational Tournament will be bowled at 9:30 am on Monday 28th January in the opening fixture ...
A few years ago, it was only a dream but now, it’s a beautiful reality. Many of us remember when Nigeria's only representatives to world ...
The President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Uyi Akpata has said that all is now set to host the maiden Women’s Invitational T20I Tou...
The 8th of March is significant for the celebration of International Women’s Day, a celebration that carries on for the entire month. Sym...
The University of Lagos Cricket Team got a boost to chase gold medals at the forthcoming Nigeria University Games (NUGA), on Tuesday when...
Blessing Etim, captain of Nigeria’s senior women's cricket team, said good communication with her teammates has been effective in overcom...
The Nigeria Cricket Federation has appointed Samantha Agazuma, injured former captain of the Senior Women’s Cricket Team as its team mana...
Vice-President and facility sub-committee Chairman of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Oyewole Obalola, has said that the newly upgraded T...
The Nigeria Cricket Federation has announced a six-nation T20 International Cricket Tournament holding from March 26th to April 4th, 2022...
We thought January was fast. We had barely dropped the pen to catch our breath and February had zoomed past. Where did it go? Well, we wi...
Both Male and Female teams representing the South-South region at the 3rd PwC National Cricket Championship won their categories to emerg...
National cricket coach and High-Performance Manager, Ashanka Gurusinha, said on Sunday that the pool of players in the country at the mom...
Peculiar Agboya, a member of the winning South-South female team has emerged the Most Valuable Player at the just concluded 3rd PwC Natio...
The President of the Nigeria Cricket Federation, Mr. Uyi Akpata, has said that one of the goals of his team when fully implemented will h...
Within the last twelve months that the last edition of the PwC National U-17 Championship was concluded at the Edo Boys High School in Be...
The 2021-22 season of the Edo Cricket League has moved into the crucial stage as the top four teams are set for Super Four this weekend F...
The third edition of the PwC/NCF Under 17 national cricket tournament will be nothing sort of excitement, great cricket, and an array of ...
Cricket action resumed over the weekend at the Tafawa Balewa Square Cricket Oval in Lagos as the division one sides of the Club Cricket C...
Nigeria’s growing population leaves a yawning gap in the active engagement of school-age kids which is presently put at 42.54 percent of ...
The Regional Qualifiers for the 2022 PriceWaterhouse Coopers (PwC) National Under 17 Cricket Championship got underway last Saturday, Jan...
In the last few years, the development and improvements that cricket has seen in this country have been in leaps and bounds. It's almost ...
Immediate past Assistant Captain of the Female National Cricket Team, Agatha Obulor gave a command performance at the opening match of th...
Former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode joined professor Osato Giwa-Osagie on Sunday, January 16, for the commissioning of the t...
After 16 months (1year and 4 months) of serious renovation work, the famous Tafawa Balewa Cricket Oval (TBS) would be re-opened officiall...
Compliments of the season from us and ours, to you and yours. This year has taken a lot of getting used to. Almost everything around us h...
For many of us, when we were being taught cricket, it was batting, bowling and fielding in that order. The coaches would usually stand in...
The Nigeria Cricket Federation held its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 18th of December at the Media Centre of the Abuja National St...
The 2021/22 Edo State Cricket League has gone on a two-week Christmas break after last weekend’s encounters, leaving the defending Champi...
In a few hours, the AGM of the Nigeria Cricket Federation will be held at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja. The question on the lips of ma...
The defending champions of The Edo Cricket League, the U17 Cricket Club saw their first taste of action this weekend and left an indelibl...
It’s been over a week since we got back home from the regional T20 World Cup Qualifiers in Kigali, Rwanda, where The Cranes of Uganda pic...
The new season of Edo Cricket Leagues flagged off last Saturday, November 27, 2021, at one of the few turf wickets in the country, with a...
Sanath saw the future. Years before the first-ever T20 ball was bowled in county cricket in 2003, Sanath had fashioned a new tactic that ...
Nigeria’s opening bowler Rasheed Abolarin has been ruled out of the Regional Final ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier billed for Rw...
The Nigeria National Senior Men’s team, the Yellow-Green will this week begin a four-day six-match session for the ticket to represent th...
...yes, you read the title right. When the team to face West African neighbors Sierra Leone was announced, many of us were sure that t...
While most of us were watching the youthful Yellow Greens of the Nigerian side ride roughshod over the Patriots of Sierra Leone with thei...
Whatever is written (and said) about the six-match bilateral encounter between Nigeria and Sierra Leone, the lone run of youngster Peter ...
More than we promised, the Lagos Cricket Stakeholders Women's T20 delivered beyond the expectations of everyone. Starting with a bang and...
The maiden edition of Lagos cricket stakeholders female t20 is about to come to an end as Ibeju-Lekki Cricket Club and Lagos Island Crick...
Barring any glitch, the Nigerian team for the ICC Under 19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier will be touching down in Kigali, on Monday, Septem...
Head Coach and High-Performance Manager of Nigeria's Cricket Team, Asanka Gurusinha, has said the series of defeats that the national mal...
If you are a Nigerian, a cricket lover, and a frequent reader of our blog it won’t be news to you that both the senior Female and Male na...
The National Men’s Cricket Team has jetted out to Entebbe in Uganda on Thursday afternoon to honor a Tri-Series with the national teams o...
Nigeria women's Cricket team began her ICC T20 Women's World Cup Qualification Campaign on a sound note with a 5 wickets victory over Wes...
Excitements trickle down my spine as a cricketer and as a Nigerian, an associate cricketing nation as international cricket action is upo...
After the previous win by Kaduna state in the first ODI, which was delayed due to rain, but with the aid of D/L a revised target of 193 r...
If like me, you've been trying to catch up on all the cricket we've missed out on, then you should have been following all the cricket go...
Growing up as a young boy in Lagos, I was lucky to have been admitted into a cricket-playing secondary school. One of the highlights of t...
As it is with a duck on the surface of the water, it has been somewhat calm and quiet around the cricket circle across the country. But b...
From the capital of the land of a thousand hills, the amazon rose. The stage was set, the drum rolled, the actions took place, and the cu...
Just over a week ago, our girls jetted off to Kwibuka, Rwanda to represent about 200 million of us in this beautiful game of cricket. Man...
There's always a sense of anticipation leading up to and during competitions. The anticipation from many angles. The anticipation from th...
It has been an interesting week of cricket so far with stunning individual performances, upsets, and last-over victories. With most teams...
Before all the teams take their hit for their third game from tomorrow, there is a need for an honest review of the matches. First, none ...
The Rwandan Cricket Association, as she continues to help the girl-child dream anew, is very worthy of commendation. It is fitting that w...
Nigeria's female national team is currently flying above our heads en route to Kigali, Rwanda to compete in the Kwibuka tournament. The e...
In the last two months, there have been many activities in Lagos geared towards resurrecting grassroots cricket in the state. I understan...
Nigeria Head Coach, Asanka Gurusinha has today announced a 20 man list that will form the core of the country's national team for the res...
Edo state’s men team outran their Kaduna State counterpart with 57 runs on Wednesday to emerge champion of the National Men’s Cricket Cha...
It's been a minute. I know. It has not been for nothing. The past few weeks have witnessed plenty of cricket action across the nation. An...
The on-going National Men’s Cricket Championship has entered a feverish pitch as Semi-Final Matches get underway with battle line draws b...
Absolutely bonkers when the country’s finest line up against each other in a feast of cricket and we are here for the fireworks. To think...
Both Kaduna and Oyo States have registered themselves in the Semi-final of the on-going National Men’s Cricket Championship after they ea...
The 2021 National Men's Cricket Championship entered its second phase in Benin today as Kaduna and Oyo states drew closer to picking the ...
Lagos and Edo States served a nail-biting duel in the closing match of Pool A at the National Men's Championship in Benin City. The host ...
Eight teams will be on parade from Monday, March 22nd to 31st, 2021 when Umpire calls play for the National Cricket Men’s Championship at...
The first Female Cricket League in the country; The South-South Female League would be rounding off this weekend, with Super-Four playoff...
T20 cricket is a short game but long in suspense, drama and pressure. The game to all intents and purposes is a Pressure game and played ...
It is time to bid farewell to our heroes and welcome new champions. The 2021 Men and Women’s Cricket Championship will be a swansong for ...
Few sights give greater joy than an Uthe Ogbimi classical on-drive or a flick off his pads. He was and still is a great batsman with an a...
Cricket is back and international cricket has been entertaining us since the action resumed. Though the match venues have not been occupi...
The Nigeria Cricket Federation has announced that the life of dedication and professionalism on the game by Professor Olajide Bademosi; w...
Growing up as a teenager, in a football dominant society like Nigeria, the choice to go with cricket will naturally meet with some opposi...
Today, Nigeria Cricket seems more like the center of (development) attraction on the continent. Not that things have been excellent, but ...
The 2nd edition of the National Under 17 Cricket Championship sponsored by PwC ended on Sunday February 7, 2021, with the South South tea...
South-South teenage sensation Lucky Piety was the center of the National Finals of the Girls Under-17 Cricket Championship after leading ...
Over the last couple few weeks, there has been a wave of cricketing excitement coursing through all the regions of the country. Boys and ...
The Head Coach and High-Performance Manager of Cricket in Nigeria, Asanka Gurusinha who has been following the on-going Regional finals o...
More than 360 players would be fielded this weekend when the boys qualifier of the on-going PwC National U-17 Cricket Championship and th...
President of Nigeria Cricket Federation Professor Yahaya Ukwenya has said the entry of close to 300 female Cricketers from 21 states last...
The Under 17 Cricket Club now top the table at the end of week two at the Edo State Cricket League when they dismissed league favourites ...
Dear cricketers, cricket lovers and lovers of cricketers, we are glad that you are here. 2020 has been much like facing all of the best s...
Despite the lull, lockdown and perhaps loss that the year has been for cricketers globally, in Nigeria, the year opened with a World Cup ...
The International Cricket Council, the umbrella body for the sport has confirmed Nigeria in two of the body's major activities in 2021 in...
The Nigeria Cricket Federation has released the names of the 25 Players who will go into a 1 Week High-Performance Camp to be led by newl...
While it may be too early to start raining applause on the four-year works of the present Cricket administration, it may worth the while ...
There is no society without its own challenges, the way these challenges are handled, however, reveal the capacity of the leadership of e...
Now that Asanka is here, It is an open secret that Nigeria now has a new Head Coach in the person of former Sri Lanka World Cup Winner, A...
The Regional Development Officer for the South South, Mr Theophilus Ibodeme has announced that all is now set for the first edition of th...
Let me take your minds away from the Indian Premier League for a moment. Many people don't know, but there's an internal series going on ...
Somebody pinch me, please! No, don't pinch me. Get a pin instead. Now prick me with it. Prick me hard. I cannot believe what I saw last n...
If like me, you're the type who enjoys the explosive nature of T20 and the fireworks the Indian Premier League especially brings, then yo...
Like the game itself, taking scores of a cricket game requires skill, preparation and a great bit of concentration. As important as it is...
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Until we stop thinking about administration as an opportunity to kill poverty and ...
Rapid development, especially in a sport like cricket is heavily dependent on the availability of facilities. If there is one thing that ...
PART ONE. On the eve of what is probably the most highly rated game in Nigeria's cricketing history. Definitely the most eagerly awaited ...
Over rates and strike rates, bowling averages and fielding extras, runs scored during the power play overs and runs conceded at the death...
One rainy Sunday evening, armed with my facemask and BNC sweatshirt, I set out purposefully, through the wet roads of Surulere. My task w...
There has been a lot of interesting news coming out of the heartbeat of the nation, Edo State. We are obviously referring to news about t...
Patience, dominant straight bat, decent judgement...those are the qualities you need to makethe top order of any batting side anywhere in...
There is reason why my sport is referred to as the gentleman's game-and it's not because it is played only by men. Honesty, respect for t...
When I was growing up in cricket, I didn't have the opportunity to see so much of it on TV. Heck I didn't even know that cricket could be...
The Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers of Nigeria (ACUSN) under the guidance of theNigeria Cricket Federation (NCF) successfully ...
Dear Reader, It has been a while, hasn't it? A lot has happened since you last heard from us. The World has gone through some difficul...
Latest Yellow Green squad announcement has once again shown that cricket is not immune to the godfatherism that plagues many other sphere...
Welcome to the new year. We have missed you.Since you last read from us, the Yellow Greens have competed at the T20 World Cup Qualifiers ...
The Howzat National Junior cricket league For Chief Philip ASIODU Trophy-organized by the Howzat Foundation for Cricket, concluded recent...
In a society, there are unwritten rules. Codes that allow us as individuals to coexist. But as humans, there are times when codes may be ...
The much-anticipated PHCL final is here. After months of exciting, hard-fought group games. One of Benvic CC or Whales CC will be crowned...
After winning the toss, Crusaders CC elected to bat first. The new ball was swinging around, and the bowling was very tight from the Inte...
Cricket, they say, is a gentleman's game. I've always known it to be so. I've always tried to play it so. Not because the only people who...
In my early years of minding the ground at my first cricket home, the tradition that I saw trainers hand down to bowlers was to always pi...
Its a blockbuster weekend of cricket action in the CCC League. The bumper fixture list gives us 5 matches across 3 venues to feast on. Th...
Tafawa Balewa Square. Saturday 12th January. The skies were clear, weather was great. Second day match week 1. The two new entrants into ...
Hello and happy new year from all of us at themiddlestump.xyz.We are so happy to tell you that cricket is back. It feels like Christmas a...
1978 was the year the world saw international cricket being played in coloured strips for the first time. Coloured jerseys, white ball......
More than any other sport I have been involved in, cricket is cerebral For a few years now, I have been fixated on answering the same q...
If you thought the EPL game between Liverpool and ManCity was massive, you should see what the CCC league has in store this weekend. Its...
IMCC romped to a massive 243run victory in their first game of the new season. The "oluyole warriors" made light work of the new comers I...
Mansard Insurance Signs 1st Club Cricket Sponsorship Deal With Government College Ibadan Old Boys Cricket Club Ahead Of The 2013/2014 Sea...
The first weekend of the 2012/2013 league season has come and gone and I can confidently say that we were entertained. For those of us th...
Hello cricket lovers!! I know the season can't start early enough for most of us. Even with the cricket event of the 18th National Sports...
Date - 22/4/12 Time - 10am Venue - Tafawa Balewa Square Cricket Oval The Champions will be without key players for what promises to be a ...
Lagos Asians CC won the toss and elected bat. LACC captain and Nigeria international Ricky Sharma (54 runs off 70 balls) top scored for h...
GAFAR DOLAPO fell 8 runs short of a century in a magnificent display of his attacking prowess with the bat Due to the sanitation exercise...
GCI completed a double of league victories over their rivals FGC in a game that had been dubbed -match of the weekend- by cricket enthusi...
The league is back in full swing with a couple of crackers in each division. In division 2, Ibadan Metro CC take on FCC2 on Saturday whil...
IBEJU LEKKI CC vs BRFCC Sunday 11th December 2011 TBS Oval The sister clubs take on each other on sunday in what is widely regarded as a ...
There are 3 games to choose from this weekend as the CCCLeague returns. In division 2, high flying OgunRocksCC face Redbulls who lost to ...