Namibia 109 for six (Frylinck 45, Mehran 3-7) tied with Oman 109 (Kail 34, Trumpelmann 4-21, Wiese 3-28)
Tremendous Over Namibia 21 beat Oman 10
David Wiese bosses the Tremendous Over
On a pitch the place batters from each groups struggled to attain, Wiese began the Tremendous Over by drilling a full supply via the covers after which walloping the subsequent ball – a juicy full toss – for a six extensive of long-on. Erasmus flick-swept the penultimate ball of the over via sq. leg to choose up one other boundary earlier than squeezing a yorker previous brief third to take Namibia to the best rating in a T20 World Cup Tremendous Over.
Wiese then gave away simply two runs off his first two balls earlier than getting Naseem Khushi to edge one onto the stumps.
Oman managed only a single off the subsequent ball as the full went past their attain and Wiese closed out the win. Wiese turned simply the fourth participant in males’s T20Is to bat and bowl in a Tremendous Over.
Mehran Khan nearly bowls Oman to victory
When he got here on to bowl the final over, Namibia wanted simply 5 to win. However Mehran bowled one full as he adopted Frylinck, who was backing away, and bowled him off his pads for a 48-ball 45. One other dot ball later, new batter Zane Inexperienced missed an tried scoop and was out lbw.
A single introduced Wiese on strike with 4 wanted off two, however he might solely hit his straight drive onto the stumps on the non-striker’s finish for 2. Having bowled full for the entire over, Mehran switched to a size ball exterior off that Wiese missed. The ball ricocheted off the wicketkeeper standing as much as permit Namibia a single though a direct hit on the similar finish would have in all probability handed Oman victory.
Trumpelmann units it up early
Trumpelmann could not get a hat-trick or make it a three-wicket first over, like he had towards Scotland within the 2021 T20 World Cup, however he struck once more in his subsequent over with a size ball that bounced greater than Naseem Khushi anticipated as he miscued a catch to mid-off, and Oman have been 10 for 3.
Zeeshan Maqsood then tried to get Oman again on monitor with a flurry of boundaries however his counterattack got here to an finish when left-arm spinner Bernard Scholtz trapped him lbw within the seventh over.
Namibia dry out the boundaries
With the spinners Scholtz and Erasmus bowling in tandem, Oman managed simply 5 runs from the 2 overs after the powerplay. Ayaan Khan then attacked Scholtz for Oman’s first six of the innings to achieve 60 for 4 on the midway mark.
However Namibia bowled 44 deliveries with out conceding a boundary, permitting Oman simply 29 runs on this interval, which resulted in two extra wickets. Ayaan was caught at long-off off Erasmus and the Namibia skipper trapped Mohammad Nadeem in entrance in his subsequent over.
Oman tried to assault late, however Wiese and Trumpelmann helped shut the innings out, with the previous bowling a two-wicket over en path to a three-for.
Bilal Khan units the tone, Ilyas applies the squeeze
Bilal obtained early motion as properly and was capable of give his staff a breakthrough when Michael van Lingen obtained an inside edge onto the stumps within the first over. Namibia went via the remainder of the powerplay unscathed, however have been scoring at underneath six an over.
They struggled towards spin, with Ilyas bowling a maiden over. The stress led to Nikolaas Davin – dropped by Mehran off his personal bowling within the eighth over – hitting Ilyas for a six over long-on however then skying a catch to long-off whereas attempting to go for an additional large hit.
The boundaries dried up once more as Frylinck and Erasmus tried to regular Namibia, though Oman had a number of probabilities to interrupt the partnership, just for one other caught-and-bowled probability to go down when Ilyas gave Frylinck a life within the eleventh over when he was on 21.
Two overs later, Frylinck was given one other reprieve, on 24, when he was dropped at deep midwicket.
Having come so shut, Oman will probably be left ruing the probabilities they put down, with Frylinck ultimately anchoring Namibia to the final over.
Abhimanyu Bose is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo
