Namibian national cricket team

The Eagles
captain	Gerhard Erasmus
Coach	Pierre de Bruyn
Official ICC ODI ranking	17th
Official ICC T20I ranking	19th
World Cup participation	1
First World Cup	2003
Best World Cup result	Last group A (2003)
World Twenty20 participations	1
First World Twenty20	2020
Best World Twenty20 result	2020
As of 2020-05-26

Logo of Cricket Namibia

The Namibian national cricket team represents Namibia in international cricket . It is set up by the National Cricket Association Namibia . Trainer (as of April 2019) is Pierre de Bruyn .

The team's greatest successes were participation in the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa and 2nd place in the 2007/08 ICC Intercontinental Cup as well as victory in the ICC World Cricket League Division 2. In October 2019, the Namibian national team won the ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019 to qualify for the T20 World Cup 2020 .

history

The first official cricket match took place in Namibia in 1915 between a team of South African soldiers and a local group from Otjiwarongo . With the occupation of Namibia by South Africa , cricket began to develop on a professional level.

On Namibian Independence Day, March 21, 1990 and the following days, the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club team played against the first national team of Namibia, from which Namibia emerged three times as the winner. Namibia also won the following games against the Dutch national cricket team .

The Namibian national team first took part in qualifying for the 1996 Cricket World Cup in 1994 and came in ninth. At the Cricket World Cup 2003 Namibia took part for the first and so far only time in a Cricket World Cup.

International competitions

World championships

Cricket World Cup

• 1996 not qualified ( qualification )
• 1999 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2003 South Africa - Preliminary Round ( Qualification ) 
• 2007 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2011 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2015 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2019 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2023 ongoing qualification ( qualification )

World Twenty20

• 2007 did not qualify
• 2009 did not qualify
• 2010 did not qualify
• 2012 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2014 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2016 not qualified ( qualification )
• 2020 Australia - qualified 

Leagues

ICC Intercontinental Cup

2004	First round
2005	First round
2006/07	First round
2007/08	2nd place
2009/10	no participation
2011-2013	5th place
2015-2017	8th place

ICC World Cricket League (Division 2)

2007 Namibia	3rd place
2011 United Arab Emirates	2nd place
2015 Namibia	2nd place
2019 Namibia	1st place

Cricket World Cup League 2

ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 2019-2021

from June 2019

ICC Intercontinental Shield

2009/10 United Arab Emirates

1st place

The competition was discontinued after one season and the teams were partially integrated into the Intercontinental Cup.

ICC 6 Nations Challenge

The ICC 6 Nations Challenge took place between 2000 and 2004. The best Associate Members of the International Cricket Council were eligible to participate .

2000	no participation
2002	4th Place
2004	3rd place

youth

The Namibian junior cricket team is one of the most successful on the African continent. The team took part in the 2006 Cricket World Cup U-19 and won the “ICC Africa U19 CWCQ” in September 2010 in Windhoek . She qualified for the 2012 World Cup and reached the quarter-finals in 2016 , after defeating defending champions South Africa. In the end, the team took a very good 7th place.

Awards

The national team won numerous awards from the International Cricket Council , including among others

• 2009: PEPSI-ICC Africa Development Regional Award
  • Best Spirit of Cricket Initiative
  • Best Overall Cricket Development Program
• 2010: PEPSI-ICC Africa Development Regional Award
  • Best Spirit of Cricket Initiative
  • Best Overall Cricket Development Program
  • Best Overall Cricket Promotion & Marketing Award

Records

On July 13, 2011, the Namibian national cricket team set numerous unofficial world records for Twenty20 international matches against the Kenyan national cricket team , including the highest score with 262 runs for 1 wicket. Louis van der Westhuizen achieved the highest number of single points with 159 runs and with 16 the highest number of "sixes" in an innings , as well as together with Sarel Burger the highest number of points (so-called partnership ) with 168 * (not out) for the 2. Wicket. Although the game was part of an official ICC tournament ( ICC Africa Region Division One Twenty20 ), these records are still unofficial in that the game does not have the status of a Twenty20 International Match .

Web links

• Cricket Namibia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Williams leads Namibia to title, ICC Cricket, December 5, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
2. ↑ Scorecard Kenya v Namibia, July 13, 2011
3. ↑ Namibia set world records against Kenya ( English ) Cricinfo. January 29, 2013. Archived from the original on November 28, 2011. Retrieved January 27, 2017.
4. ↑ Official Cricket ( Memento of November 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 84 kB)