The Namibia cricket team is the team that represents the country of Namibia in international cricket matches. It is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1992Namibia at CricketArchive and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007.Denmark added to ICC High Performance Program , ICC Europe Media Release, 20 December 2006 at European Cricket Council They took part in the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa, though they lost all their games. They have played in each edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup.
Cricket World Cup Record By tournament Cricket World Cup recordQualification recordYearRoundPosition1975Not an ICC member No qualifier held1979 Did not participate1983198719921996Did not qualify743001999624002003Group Stage14/1460600871002007Did not qualify12840020111861200201529101900201926101600202341221801TotalGroup Stage1/1360600147697701
By team OppositionMatchesWonTie/NRLost100110011001100110011001Total6006
2003 World Cup
The World Cup itself started on 10 February 2003 in Harare with Zimbabwe beating Namibia by 86 runs.Scorecard of Zimbabwe v Namibia, 10 February 2003 at Cricket Archive Back in South Africa, they lost to Pakistan by 171 runs. Scorecard of Namibia v Pakistan, 16 February 2003 at Cricket Archive This was followed by a 55-run defeat at the hands of England in a match where Namibia performed with some credit, Jan-Berrie Burger winning the man of the match award for his innings of 85 that almost helped Namibia pull off an unlikely upset.Scorecard of England v Namibia, 19 February 2003 at Cricket Archive They then lost by 181 runs to IndiaScorecard of India v Namibia, 23 February 2003 at Cricket Archive and a 256 run defeat against Australia,Scorecard of Australia v Namibia, 27 February 2003 at Cricket Archive the eventual winners of the tournament,2003 World Cup at Cricinfo in what at the time was the biggest winning margin in One Day Internationals, since surpassed by an Indian 257 run win over Bermuda.ODIs – Highest winning margins at Cricinfo The tournament finished with a 64 run loss to fellow qualifiers the Netherlands.Scorecard of Namibia v Netherlands, 3 March 2003 at Cricket Archive
Squad
Deon Kotzé (c) Sarel Burger Stephan Swanepoel Danie Keulder Louis Burger Jan-Berrie Burger Rudi van Vuuren Gerrie Snyman Björn Kotzé Burton van Rooi Morne Karg (wk) Melt van Schoor (wk) Johannes van der Merwe Lennie Louw Bryan Murgatroyd
Results Pool stage (Pool A)Super SixesSemifinalFinalOverall ResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankOppositionResultRankOppositionResultOppositionResultL by 86 runs (D/L)L by 171 runsL by 55 runsL by 181 runsL by 256 runsL by 64 runs7Did not advancePool stage Scorecards
See also Namibia national cricket team Cricket in Namibia
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