Peter Aho (born 2 March 2003) is a Nigerian
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
er. In March 2019, he was part of the
Nigeria national under-19 cricket team
The Nigeria Under-19 cricket team represents Nigeria in Under-19 cricket at the international level.
It took part in the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup qualification ICC Africa Division One tournament, held in Namibia. Nigeria defeated pre-to ...
that qualified for the
2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. It was the first time that Nigeria had qualified for a Cricket World Cup tournament.
In September 2021, Aho was named in Nigeria's
Twenty20 International
A Twenty20 International (T20I) is a form of cricket, played between two of the international members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), in which each team faces a maximum of twenty overs. The matches have top-class status and are the ...
(T20I) squad for the
2021–22 Uganda Tri-Nation Series tournament. He made his T20I debut on 11 September 2021, for Nigeria against
Kenya
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. The following month, he was also named in Nigeria's T20I squad for their home series
against Sierra Leone. In the fifth match of the series, Aho took six wickets for five runs to record the
best ever bowling figures in a T20I match. He also became the first bowler for Nigeria to
take a five-wicket haul and
a hat-trick in a T20I match.
In October 2021, he was named in Nigeria's squad for the Regional Final of the
2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Rwanda.
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2003 births
Living people
Nigerian cricketers
Nigeria Twenty20 International cricketers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Twenty20 International hat-trick takers