Cricket is growing day by day and teams are playing against each other in numerous tournaments and making their name in cricket. One of them is ‘United States’, they already have proved their capability in the last edition of the T20 World Cup. They defeated a strong team like Pakistan and competed bravely against teams like- South Africa, England and West Indies. And there are lots of teams with good potential here. One more in the list Namibia they have been shown their presence in cricket for 3 decades. We present to you the Namibia national cricket team vs United States national cricket team match scorecard from One-off tournament match.
Namibia National Cricket Team vs United States National Cricket Team Match Scorecard Match 6 of One-off Tournament
On 5 October of 2024 Namibia and United States had a T20 match ‘Wanderers Sports Ground’. Namibia already had lost in their last encounter with the United States on 1 October. So, This match was the chance for them to take revenge on the United States by winning the match. But, eventually they failed. Here is the Namibia national cricket team vs United States national cricket team match scorecard.
Namibia
| Batting | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | S/R |
| Jean-Pierre Kotze(wk) | 29 | 20 | 6 | 0 | 145.00 |
| Jan Frylinck | 21 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 175.00 |
| Alexander Busing-Volschenk | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Gerhard Erasmus(c) | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66.67 |
| JJ Smit | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Zane Green | 6 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 |
| Shaun Fouche | 40* | 43 | 5 | 0 | 93.02 |
| Jan Balt | 10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 58.82 |
| Bernard Scholtz | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 50.00 |
| Jack Brassell | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Tangeni Lungameni | 2* | 2 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Bowling | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets | Economy |
| Jasdeep Singh(c) | 4.0 | 0 | 31 | 1 | 7.75 |
| Milind Kumar | 4.0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 4.00 |
| Juanoy Drysdale | 1.0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 19.00 |
| Harmeet Singh | 4.0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 5.25 |
| Nosthush Kenjige | 4.0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 4.00 |
| Nitish Kumar | 3.0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 4.33 |
Total- 120/9 (20 overs)
United States
| Batting | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | S/R |
| Saiteja Mukkamalla | 22 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 91.67 |
| Andries Gous (wk) | 37 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 194.74 |
| Harmeet Singh | 16 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 133.33 |
| Nitish Kumar | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 100.00 |
| Milind Kumar | 18* | 15 | 1 | 0 | 120.00 |
| Shayan Jahangir | 11* | 11 | 1 | 0 | 100.00 |
Total- 124/4 (15.1 overs)
| Bowling | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets | Economy |
| Jack Brassell | 2.0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 12.50 |
| Bernard Scholtz | 4.0 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 6.00 |
| Tangeni Lungameni | 2.0 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 14.00 |
| Gerhard Erasmus(c) | 4.0 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 5.75 |
| Jan Balt | 2.1 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 8.77 |
| Shaun Fouche | 1.0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5.00 |
United States won the match by 6 wickets and 29 balls left
Match Summary
‘Gerhard Erasmus’ won the toss for Namibia and decided to bat first.
First Innings
Namibia showed their intent from the start and started proving their decision right by making runs with a high run rate. Then, In the 4th over ‘Milind Kumar’ brought United States back in the game by taking the wicket of ‘Jan Frylinck’. He took 2 more wickets in the same over as ‘Volschenk’ and the skipper ‘Gerhard Erasmus’. After that United States bowlers started the attack and picked the batters one by one and restricted Namibia on 120 runs.
Second Innings
United States started the innings in the same way and perfectly utilized power play by scoring 60 runs. ‘Bernard Scholtz’ picked the first wicket in the 7th over by bowled out ‘Saiteja Mukkamalla’. In the very next over captain ‘Gerhard’ picked Andries’s wicket. But, by then United States were already in a good position and the middle order did the remaining work for United States and won the match in the 16th over.
Top Performers
Here we have mentioned the top performers from Namibia national cricket team vs United States national cricket team match scorecard.
- Shaun Fouche
- Gerhard Erasmus
- Andries Gous
- Milind Kumar
- Harmeet Singh
History Of Namibia National Cricket Team vs United States National Cricket Team
Both teams are not a full member of ICC so they occasionally play regular bilateral series. They often face each other in World cup qualifiers and any other tournaments like One-off and more.
Namibia and United States played their first cricket match against each other on 26 March 2023 at ‘Wanderers Cricket Ground’ in Windhoek. The match was a play-off match of ‘World Cup Qualifier’ and played in ODI format.‘Monank Patel’ was leading the United States side and ‘Gerhard Erasmus’ was leading Namibia. In the first encounter, the United States won the match by 80 runs.
Head To Head Form Namibia National Cricket Team vs United States National Cricket Team Match Scorecard
AS we already have mentioned that both teams play against each other eventually. So, they have only played a total of 11 matches in both T20i and ODI format including the last one. We have arranged all of their matches in the stats table.
ODI
| Namibia | Vs | United States |
| 9 | Matches Played | 9 |
| 4 | Won | 5 |
| 5 | Lost | 4 |
| 0 | Drawn | 0 |
| 0 | No Results | 0 |
T20I
| Namibia | Vs | United States |
| 2 | Matches Played | 2 |
| 0 | Won | 2 |
| 2 | Lost | 0 |
| 0 | Drawn | 0 |
| 0 | No Results | 0 |
Conclusion
Namibia national cricket team vs United States national cricket team match scorecard is a new addition in the series of United States cricket team’s achievements. They have been consistent and competitive in all of their recent matches. Even if we only take matches against Namibia, We’ll get that the United States won 5 matches from the last 6 encounters with Namibia. United States cricket team surely increased their popularity and reputation among cricket fans. It will be exciting to see upcoming matches of this team.
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