It was milestone achievements for Itua Lucky of Dolphins Cricket Club of Benin and Asia Joshua of Crusaders Cricket Club as they both hit 1000 career runs and reached 50 career runs respectively, on day 1 of the Edo Men’s T20 Cricket League 2025 season, which kicks off Saturday, November 8, 2025, across two centres in Benin City, platinumnewsng.com is reporting
The season openers at Adolor College and Iyoba Girls College saw interesting games and exceptional displays by the players in games many describe as good adverts for the sport at the league level.
Integrity Force Cricket Club, Invictus Cricket Club, Delta Force Cricket Club and Dolphins Cricket Club all kick-started their season on winning notes as hostilities took centre stage.
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In the curtain raiser match, Integrity Force Cricket Club defeated U17 Cricket Club, edging them by 9 wickets at the Edo Boys High School Cricket pitch.
The U17 team batted first, managing 44 runs for all out after 12.2 overs in the first innings, while their opponents quickly rallied to meet the target and more (48 runs) after just 7.0 overs with 1 wicket loss;
In the other match held simultaneously at the Iyoba Girls College Cricket pitch, Invictus Cricket Club emerged winners over No Limit Cricket Club. Invictus Cricket Club’s decision to bat first paid off as they scored 71 runs after 15.2 overs with all wickets taken out, while No Limit Cricket Club couldn’t score about 36 runs when all their wickets were bowled out.
Destiny Chilemanya was a winner both for club and person as he had his name came through to reality when he clocked 200 career wickets in the win. David Abiebhode emerged player of the match after emerging as the Best Bowler and Batter of the game
The U-17 were in action again, with many thinking that they would correct the errors in their first game, but lost again, this time, to Delta Force CC. While Delta Force scored 58 runs for all wickets out after 16.4 overs, the under-17 boys recorded 45 runs, which was 13 runs from their opponents’ score in the first innings.
Emmanuel Kingsley went home with the Player of the Match award after unlocking the Choke Slammer and 3ECO Badges, Onothoja David won the Best Batter of the match and Princewill Chigozie scooped the best Bowler recognition
The last game of the day experienced a late interruption in the second innings as heavy rains washed out the remainder of the game after just 7.3 overs were played by the batting team, the Crusaders Cricket Club. The DLS method was later adopted to crown the Dolphin CC winners as they had scored 122 runs for all wickets out after 20 overs.
It was Godsfavour Okoro of Integrity Cricket Club’s day with his emergence as the Player of the Match alongside being the Best Bowler and completing 50 career Wickets while teammate, Daniel Okposio emerged as the match’s Best Batter
An elated handler of Dolphins CC, Christopher Eboehi, praised his team’s performance and also threw his hat into the race for the top prize in the tournament.
He said, “I’m very happy that we won the game today, our boys did well as well as our opponents. I’m happy that our players followed the instructions today, though we made some mistakes which we will correct ahead of our next games.
”Our batting was superb today. Going forward, we will work on our fielding. I believe my boys will improve on this performance today and grab another victory tomorrow. I have told my players that we did not just come to compete, but we’re going for the trophy, we’re going first and do better”, he added.
Games resume at both match venues on Sunday from 9:00 AM
