A month after his appointment as skipper of the Sierra Leone Under-19 Cricket Men’s aspect, John Bangura led his aspect to seize his first cross-border cup, taking his motherland to the ICC Men’s Under-19 World Cup Division 1 Qualifier slated for South Africa in March subsequent 12 months.
From a dusty oval with stone-infested outfields again residence, Bangura, 18, says he understands the cricket chemistry and so was fast to resolve on taking the shortest doable time to look at the circumstances he met on the Abuja soil in the course of the ICC Men’s Under-19 World Cup Africa Division 2 Qualifier.
“This helps me adapt and turn the direction of the tide. “I have endurance in batting, so it was no problem adjusting myself to the ODI way. As for our match against Kenya, the day did not simply call for me,” John Bangura, Captain, Sierra Leone Under-19 Cricket Men’s aspect.
With the Abuja showpiece bringing him face-to-face with the grim actuality, Bangura believes he has amassed sufficient expertise to assist forge the trail to success.
“I have taken note of what happened in Nigeria. We are going to work on the few lapses, strengthening our batting system and talking the boys through the benefits of not losing catches. The affairs of the kids are over. We are going to face the bulldogs in Division 1,”
Altogether, Bangura has hit 5 hundred runs in ICC-sanctioned tournaments. In the three matches performed in Nigeria, Skipper Bangura scored 166 runs not out, 30 in opposition to Rwanda, 47 in opposition to Botswana, and smashing 89 in opposition to Nigeria, eleven extra to repair him to a century, for which he wept profusely on the alien turf.
Going again in time, Bangura began his cricket profession for the Prince of Wales School in 2014, serving as Vice Captain to Edward George Ngegba as much as 2016.
He began taking part in membership cricket in 2016 and acquired signed by the Midwest Cricket Club at age 11. The similar 12 months, he had a call-up to the Sierra Leone Men’s U19 Cricket staff for his worldwide debut on the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Africa Division 2 Qualifier in Benoni South Africa.
Alongside his college cricket Captain Edward George Ngegba, Bangura was distinctive on the qualifier, incomes himself one other invitation to the Senior Men’s Cricket staff in 2017.
He was a part of the Midwest Cricket staff that gained the 2016 and 2017 Sierra Leone T20 Cricket Premier League Titles and the Midwest Cricket Youth staff that gained the Sierra Leone U19 Youth Cricket Championship in 2019. Bangura was additionally a part of the Sierra Leone U19 Men’s Cricket staff within the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Africa Division 2 qualifier in Pochestroom South Africa in 2018, ending as runners-up to Nigeria.
Indeed, John was a part of the Sierra Leone U19 Men’s Cricket staff within the ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Africa Division 1 qualifier in Windhoek Namibia in 2019.
In the Nigeria Bilateral Series of October 2021, Bangura was among the many seniors who led the way in which to the restoration of the Men’s Patriots after an extended absence from the worldwide frontline. He joined the staff for the ICC Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup Africa Sub Regional Qualifier in Rwanda in 2021 for a successive run.
In September this 12 months, he was appointed Captain of the Sierra Leone U19 National Men’s Cricket staff. Before his ascension to this rank, he had been the Vice-Captain since 2018.
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