2022 Namibia Tri-Nation Series (round 18)

The 2022 Namibia Tri-Nation Series was the 18th round of the 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament which took place in Namibia in December 2022.[1][2] It was a tri-nation series between Namibia, Nepal and the Scotland cricket teams,[3] with the matches played as One Day International (ODI) fixtures.[4] The ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 formed part of the qualification pathway to the 2023 Cricket World Cup.[5][6]

2022 Namibia Tri-Nation Series
Part of 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
Date1–8 December 2022
LocationNamibia
Player of the seriesScotland Brandon McMullen
Teams
 Namibia    Nepal  Scotland
Captains
Gerhard Erasmus Rohit Paudel Richie Berrington
Most runs
Gerhard Erasmus (169) Gyanendra Malla (139) Michael van Lingen (131)
Most wickets
Tangeni Lungameni (8) Lalit Rajbanshi (6) Brandon McMullen (8)

Originally the series was scheduled to take place in April 2020.[4][7] However, on 24 March 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that all ICC qualifying events scheduled to take place before 30 June 2020 had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] In December 2020, the ICC announced the rescheduled dates for the series.[9]

Squads
 Namibia    Nepal[10]  Scotland[11]

Jan Frylinck was ruled out of Namibia's squad due to an ankle injury.[12]

Fixtures

1st ODI
1 December 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Namibia 
211/9 (50 overs)
v
 Scotland
213/6 (42.1 overs)
Gerhard Erasmus 96* (130)
Safyaan Sharif 3/33 (10 overs)
Kyle Coetzer 54 (44)
Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton 2/32 (4 overs)
Scotland won by 4 wickets
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Shaun George (SA) and Claus Schumacher (Nam)
Player of the match: Kyle Coetzer (Sco)
  • Scotland won the toss and elected to field.
  • Brandon McMullen (Sco) made his ODI debut.

2nd ODI
2 December 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Nepal   
197 (49.5 overs)
v
 Namibia
4/0 (0.4 overs)
Gyanendra Malla 75 (94)
Tangeni Lungameni 3/42 (10 overs)
No result
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Shaun George (SA) and Claus Schumacher (Nam)
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to field.
  • No further play was possible due to rain.

3rd ODI
4 December 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Nepal   
137 (40.1 overs)
v
 Scotland
143/7 (32.1 overs)
Gulsan Jha 29 (29)
Chris Sole 3/12 (7 overs)
Christopher McBride 43 (47)
Gulsan Jha 2/19 (4 overs)
Scotland won by 3 wickets
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Andrew Louw (Nam) and Claude Thorburn (Nam)
Player of the match: Chris Sole (Sco)
  • Scotland won the toss and elected to field.

4th ODI
5 December 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Scotland 
208 (50 overs)
v
 Namibia
210/7 (44 overs)
Brandon McMullen 56 (70)
Ruben Trumpelmann 4/37 (10 overs)
Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton 67* (96)
Mark Watt 3/28 (9 overs)
Namibia won by 3 wickets
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Shaun George (SA) and Claude Thorburn (Nam)
Player of the match: Pikky Ya France (Nam)
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to field.

5th ODI
7 December 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Namibia 
275/7 (50 overs)
v
   Nepal
189 (46.5 overs)
Michael van Lingen 119 (111)
Lalit Rajbanshi 4/36 (10 overs)
Rohit Paudel 44 (61)
JJ Smit 2/18 (8 overs)
Namibia won by 86 runs
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Shaun George (SA) and Andrew Louw (Nam)
Player of the match: Michael van Lingen (Nam)
  • Nepal won the toss and elected to field.

6th ODI
8 December 2022
10:00
Scorecard
Nepal   
119 (35.3 overs)
v
 Scotland
121/2 (17 overs)
Rohit Paudel 47 (57)
Safyaan Sharif 2/20 (7 overs)
Scotland won by 8 wickets
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Andrew Louw (Nam) and Claude Thorburn (Nam)
Player of the match: Christopher McBride (Sco)
  • Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.

References
  1. "Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 qualifying matches rescheduled". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  2. "Jam-packed programme for Cricket Namibia". The Namibian. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  3. "Complete schedule of Nepal cricket team in 2020 including a first home ODI series". The National. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
  4. "ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 series announced". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 7 May 2019.
  5. "Namibia crowned ICC World Cricket League Division 2 champions with victory over Oman". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
  6. "Associates pathway to 2023 World Cup undergoes major revamp". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  7. "Action galore awaits Namibian sports". The Namibian. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  8. "COVID-19 update – ICC qualifying events". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  9. "2023 World Cup qualifier details". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 17 December 2022. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  10. "Nepal announce the squad to tour Namibia". CricNepal. 20 November 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  11. "Scotland Men's CWCL2 Namibia series squad announced". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  12. "Eagles have a score to settle". The Namibian. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
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