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Namibia vs Sri Lanka Scorecard, Match 1, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Oct 16 2022, Sun - 09:30 AM (IST)
Match 1, - GMHBA Stadium, Geelong, Australia
NAMIBIA163/7
SRI LANKA108
Namibia won by 55 runs
CRR:5.68
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Oct 16 2022, Sun - 09:30 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Australia |
| City: | Geelong |
| Venue: | GMHBA Stadium |
| Toss: | Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Sri Lanka Playing XI: | Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Mendis (wk), Dhananjaya de Silva, Danushka Gunathilaka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Dasun Shanaka (c), Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Dushmantha Chameera, Pramod Madushan, Maheesh Theekshana |
| Namibia Playing XI: | Divan la Cock, Michael van Lingen, Stephan Baard, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Gerhard Erasmus (c), Jan Frylinck, JJ Smit, David Wiese, Zane Green (wk), Bernard Scholtz, Ben Shikongo |
- Sri Lanka and Namibia met for the first and only time in men’s T20Is during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2021, with the island nation winning the match by seven wickets.
- Sri Lanka have won their last five men’s T20I matches, the previous occasion where they won more matches in a row was during the 2009 edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (6 matches), they lost to Pakistan in the final.
- Namibia have won three of their eight matches in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (L5), they have lost their last four matches in the tournament; Sri Lanka have one win from their last four matches in the tournament, winning their most recent encounter against West Indies by 20 runs.
- Namibia have won their last two men’s T20I matches, the last time they won more matches in a row in the format was a run of three matches in October 2021.
- Sri Lanka have a batting strike rate of 112 during the powerplay in men’s T20Is in 2022, the least by any team amongst the full member sides of the ICC this year.
- Sri Lanka have managed a bowling dot ball percentage of 44.4% during the powerplay in men’s T20Is in 2022, only England (43.6%) have a poorer such rate during this phase.
- Gerhard Erasmus (927) needs 73 more to reach 1,000 runs for Namibia in men’s T20Is, in doing so, he will become the first player to achieve this feat for the country; only once has he made a score of 73 or above in this format.
- Dushmantha Chameera (48) needs two more scalps to reach 50 wickets in men’s T20Is, in doing so he will become the fifth Sri Lankan to achieve this feat; he has taken two or more wickets 13 times in his T20I career.
- Since the beginning of 2021, Charith Asalanka and Pathum Nissanka have top scored on seven occasions for Sri Lanka in men’s T20Is, the highest for their country during that time.
- Sri Lanka’s Wanindu Hasaranga has taken 59 wickets in men’s T20Is since the beginning of 2020, the most by any spinner; he has registered a bowling dot ball percentage of 40% during that time.