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Namibia vs Sri Lanka স্কোরকার্ড, Match 4, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Oct 18 2021, Mon - 07:30 PM (IST)
NAMIBIA96
SRI LANKA100/3
Sri Lanka won by 7 wickets
CRR:7.41
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Match Info
| সিরিজ : | 20/20 World Cup |
| তারিখ: | Oct 18 2021, Mon - 07:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | United Arab Emirates |
| City: | Abu Dhabi |
| ভেন্যু: | Sheikh Zayed Stadium |
| টস: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Kusal Perera (wk), Pathum Nissanka, Dinesh Chandimal, Avishka Fernando, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dasun Shanaka (c), Chamika Karunaratne, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana, Lahiru Kumara |
| Namibia Playing XI: | Stephan Baard, Zane Green (wk), Craig Williams, Gerhard Erasmus (c), David Wiese, JJ Smit, Jan Frylinck, Pikky Ya France, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Ruben Trumpelmann, Bernard Scholtz |
- This will be the first men’s T20I fixture between Sri Lanka and Namibia, Namibia will be the 16th different nation that Sri Lanka have met in the format, whilst vice versa Sri Lanka are Namibia’s 13th different opponent.
- This will be Namibia's first men’s T20 World Cup appearance after they qualified in fourth spot at the 2019 event in the UAE, Sri Lanka are one of nine teams to appear in all six previous editions of the tournament.
- Sri Lanka are one of five teams to have won the men's T20 World Cup, winning the 2014 edition after beating India in the final by six wickets.
- Since qualifying for this tournament in November 2019, Namibia have played just six men’s T20I matches, winning all of them, a 3-0 series win over Uganda in April this year, before warm-up wins over UAE, Scotland and PNG.
- Sri Lanka have lost 16 of their last 19 men’s T20I fixtures, including a 3-0 series whitewash defeat against South Africa most recently, those losses coming by 10 wickets, 9 wickets and 28 runs.
- Sri Lanka have reached the final of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup more times than any other team (3); although, they have only won once in those three attempts (2014).
- Only Romania (9/9) have played more matches and maintained a 100% win rate in men’s T20Is in 2021 than Namibia (6/6).
- Sri Lanka had batting strike rate of 136 at the death in the 2016 T20 World Cup, the lowest rate of any side in the competition, whilst only one side had a worse dot ball rate than them with the ball in the same stage of matches (24%).
- Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus was named player of the tournament at the 2019 World Cup Qualifier event, he scored the second most runs (268) behind Paul Stirling (291).
- Sri Lanka captain Dasun Shanaka (49) is set to make his 50th T20I appearance, he will be the 10th player to do so for his country; Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus is his country’s leading appearance maker in the format (22).
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