Maqonda Ndlovu
Namibia’s U/19 national cricket team has shown good form at the ongoing International Cricket Council U/19 World Cup Africa qualifiers currently taking place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Namibia’s first match against Uganda on Sunday was washed off after the Eagles posted 25 runs for no loss of wickets in seven of the fifty overs in the revised match.
Uganda could not get going as the intermittent rain forced the organisers to declare the match a draw.
However, Namibia came back strongly against Tanzania on Monday, as Jack Thomas Brassell’s inspired bowling led to the Eagles winning by 106 runs.
Namibia posted 139/10 in their 50 overs, but Brassell bowled magnificent figures of two maidens and three wickets and conceded just six runs in five overs to lead the Eagles to victory.
Yesterday, Namibia once again proved to be a bowling force as they restricted Kenya to 64 all out in 30.4 overs.
Morris Gerhardt Kariata bowled five overs, one maiden, and 10 runs and took three wickets, while captain Alexander Büsing-Volschenk assisted with two wickets in 1.4 overs, conceding a single run.
Vice-Captain Gerhard Janse van Rensburg, Peter-Daniel Blignaut, and Brassell each contributed one run.
Ryan Moffet and Brassell also contributed a single run-out apiece.
In reply, van Rensburg scored 10 runs from 16 balls, Johannes Arnoldus de Villiers got 11 from 23, and wicketkeeper Johannes Wilhelm Visagie notched 14 from 36, before Zacheo Rudolf Jansen Van Vuuren and Büsing-Volschenk finished off the match with five and 19 runs, respectively.
Kariata was named Man of the Match.
Namibia plays Sierra Leone today and Nigeria 30 July.
Only one spot is at stake for the six African nations that are currently in Tanzania to go to the 15th edition of the Junior World Cup in Sri Lanka next year.