Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    6.4 holes out to deep square leg and Smit breaks the opening stand! This was very similar to the last ball Smit bowled to Zazai, this time the batter takes the aerial route to swipe the short of length ball to the leg side and finds the fielder there for a comfortable catch 53/1
    12.4 caught at fly slip. Fuller around off, Shahzad moves towards the off side, gets low and tries to help it over the keeper's head. But all he gets is a top edge, near the toe end of the bat and a simply catch for Scholtz, who had to take only a step and a half to his left 89/3
    9.5 loud appeal for lbw as the full ball strikes him in front, given out, and Gurbaz reviews it! It's tossed up, hits him right in front as he misses the sweep and the third umpire is checking UltraEdge, nothing there, so time for ball-tracking. Pitching around off, going straight and he's gone! 68/2
    18.6 moves across and looks to go over short fine leg but the bowler bowls it full outside off. Asghar adjusts to scoop it over short third man but ends up playing straight into the hands of backward point. The Namibia players are congratulating him for a wonderful career, a pat on the back from Nabi too. He raises his bat as he leaves, and there's a guard of honour from the Afghanistan players as he crosses the boundary line 148/5
    15.4 Given lbw but Najib reviews. A length ball on the stumps, misses the flick and is rapped on the pads. An appeal for lbw and the finger goes up. No inside edge there, the ball landed around off and spun in to hit in front of middle and would have gone on to hit middle and leg. Najib has to walk back here, Afghanistan lose a review as well 113/4
    not out
    32
    17
    24
    5
    1
    188.23
    not out
    1
    1
    5
    0
    0
    100.00
    Extras
    7 (lb 1, w 6)
    TOTAL
    160/5 (20 Overs, RR: 8)
    Fall of wickets: 1-53 (Hazratullah Zazai, 6.4 ov), 2-68 (Rahmanullah Gurbaz, 9.5 ov), 3-89 (Mohammad Shahzad, 12.4 ov), 4-113 (Najibullah Zadran, 15.4 ov), 5-148 (Asghar Afghan, 18.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    R Trumpelmann403428.50144220
    JJ Smit302217.3373010
    D Wiese403308.2594100
    JN Frylinck3034011.3363220
    JN Loftie-Eaton402125.25110110
    BM Scholtz10808.0011000
    MG Erasmus10707.0021000
  • BATSMEN
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    0.4 it's a skier and mid-on gets both hands under it easily. Williams went after the fulish delivery with a big swing, didn't middle it at all, and that went a long way into the blue sky before the fielder pouched it easily 2/1
    2.4 Naveen's clever slower ball gets him his second! van Lingen gave him the charge and Naveen replied by taking the pace off the ball on the leg side, and all van Lingen could do was go through with the swing on leg but his slow bat speed showed he knew he had mistimed it, and it resulted in a leading edge to square leg 16/2
    5.2 misses the heave off the slower ball at 102kmh, and Namibia lose their third! Loftie-Eaton wanted to go big on the leg side, probably expecting a quicker one after the slower ball earlier, but this one's another slower ball, and he misses the swing completely to lose the top of his leg stump 29/3
    10.3 floors the Namibia captain with a searing yorker. Full, right in the blockhole. Erasmus looks to jam his bat it but misses, and the ball crashes into the leg stump. That's a big wicket for Afghanistan 56/5
    7.1 gets a wicket first ball, Rashid Khan takes off with his airplane celebration! Not the best shot to face Rashid first ball but Green goes across a long way for an unorthodox paddle sweep and he misses the ball on the stumps completely 36/4
    16.5 another yorker, another wicket. Hassan has added another dimension to this Afghanistan attack. This one tails in, Wiese looks to get his bat on it but all he manages an inside edge that clatters into the stumps 80/9
    10.6 Hassan gets another. A short of length delivery outside off, Smit looks to stay away from it, tries to withdraws his bat but the ball hits the gloves and goes into Shahzad's mitts. Up goes the finger. Only Wiese standing between Afghanistan and victory 56/6
    14.5 Naveen picks up his third. Fuller outside off, lofted but hardly any power behind it. Ends up skying towards mid-off where Nabi settles under it 69/7
    15.6 another slower one. This time a touch fuller. Ya France goes for the slog only to top-edge it right up. Naib settles under it himself 77/8
    not out
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    133.33
    not out
    6
    11
    13
    0
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    54.54
    Extras
    6 (lb 2, w 4)
    TOTAL
    98/9 (20 Overs, RR: 4.9)
    Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Craig Williams, 0.4 ov), 2-16 (Michael van Lingen, 2.4 ov), 3-29 (Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, 5.2 ov), 4-36 (Zane Green, 7.1 ov), 5-56 (Gerhard Erasmus, 10.3 ov), 6-56 (JJ Smit, 10.6 ov), 7-69 (Jan Frylinck, 14.5 ov), 8-77 (Pikky Ya France, 15.6 ov), 9-80 (David Wiese, 16.5 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    Naveen-ul-Haq402636.50103000
    Mohammad Nabi201708.5060200
    Hamid Hassan40932.25160010
    Gulbadin Naib411924.75121010
    Karim Janat201105.5051010
    Rashid Khan401413.50150010

Match Notes

Namibia 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st2CG WilliamsM van Lingen
2nd14M van LingenJN Loftie-Eaton
3rd13MG ErasmusJN Loftie-Eaton
4th7MG ErasmusZE Green
5th20D WieseMG Erasmus
6th0D WieseJJ Smit
7th13D WieseJN Frylinck
8th8D WieseHN Ya France
9th3D WieseR Trumpelmann
10th18BM ScholtzR Trumpelmann

ICC Men's T20 World Cup

First Round Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
SL33063.754
NAM3214-0.523
IRE3122-0.853
NED3030-2.46
First Round Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
SCOT33060.775
BAN32141.733
OMA3122-0.025
PNG3030-2.655
Group 1
TeamMWLPTNRR
ENG54182.464
AUS54181.216
SA54180.739
SL5234-0.269
WI5142-1.641
BAN5050-2.383
Group 2
TeamMWLPTNRR
PAK550101.583
NZ54181.162
IND53261.747
AFG52341.053
NAM5142-1.89
SCOT5050-3.543