Nigeria’s YellowGreens head coach, Steve Mangongo, has challenged his gamers to translate their preparations into outcomes as they start their marketing campaign on the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Africa Sub-Regional Qualifier C towards The Gambia in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Nigerian facet will open their marketing campaign on the Nigeria Cricket Federation Oval 2, with Mangongo insisting that self-discipline, composure and efficient execution will decide their success within the six-nation competitors.
The Zimbabwean tactician believes his gamers have accomplished the required preparations and should now reveal their readiness on the sector.
“Calm before the storm. That’s all we need. We’ve done all the training. We are ready to go,” Mangongo mentioned.
He confused that preparation alone wouldn’t assure success until the gamers reproduce their coaching performances beneath aggressive strain.
“It’s about being able to execute your skills as per the way you have trained,” he defined.
“And if you’ve put enough hard work in, you’ll be confident to go and execute on the day. So it’s about execution.”
Nigeria will face Zambia on Wednesday, October 21, earlier than assembly Mozambique on Friday, Lesotho on Saturday and Uganda of their remaining fixture on Sunday, October 25.
The competitors options six groups — Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho and The Gambia — competing in a single round-robin format.
Only the highest two groups will advance to the Africa Regional Final in 2027, maintaining alive their ambitions of qualifying for the 2028 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.
For Mangongo, who’s overseeing his first main qualification marketing campaign since taking cost of the YellowGreens, the event gives a chance to evaluate the crew’s progress towards continental opposition.
Playing on residence soil, Nigeria shall be in search of a constructive begin towards The Gambia earlier than Wednesday’s doubtlessly decisive encounter with Zambia.
The YellowGreens should end among the many prime two to progress, making consistency throughout all 5 matches important to their World Cup qualification ambitions.
