{"id":195087,"date":"2025-04-01T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kenya-kenya-under-19-a-team-on-a-mission-in-nigeria-shlok\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T03:12:49","slug":"nigeria-kenya-kenya-under-19-a-team-on-a-mission-in-nigeria-shlok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kenya-kenya-under-19-a-team-on-a-mission-in-nigeria-shlok\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Kenya: Kenya Under-19 &#8211; a Team On a Mission in Nigeria &#8211; Shlok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>For Kenya&#8217;s Under-19 cricket team, the ICC U19 Men&#8217;s Cricket World Cup Africa Qualifier in Lagos, Nigeria is more than just a tournament&#8211;it&#8217;s a mission.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">After months of intense preparation, unwavering dedication, and a shared dream, the young squad has hit the ground running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">According to all-rounder Shlok Saini, the team has only one goal in mind: to win and qualify for next year&#8217;s ICC U19 World Cup, set to be co-hosted by Zimbabwe and Namibia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;There&#8217;s really no better feeling. Not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503310454.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 For Kenya&#8217;s Under-19 cricket team, the ICC U19 Men&#8217;s Cricket World Cup Africa Qualifier in Lagos, Nigeria is more than just a tournament&#8211;it&#8217;s a mission. After months of intense preparation, unwavering dedication, and a shared dream, the young squad has hit the ground running. According to all-rounder Shlok Saini, the team has only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195088,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4688,6161,257,4687,393,51012,51013,254,7142,11774],"class_list":["post-195087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-mission","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigeriakenya","tag-shlok","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-under19"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}