Published: Jan 31, 2016, 04:45 PM (IST)
Edited: Jan 31, 2016, 04:45 PM (IST)
Namibia Under-19 thrash South Africa Under-19 by 2 wickets at Cox Bazar to gain a spot at the quarter finals. Defending champions South Africa, who also lost the match against Bangladesh, are out of the quarter final league. Lohan Louwrens who came in at 10/2 steered Namibia to their target and remained unbeaten at 58. Louwrens did not receive much support from the other end as wickets were constantly falling off except for Chris Brits who scored 27 and added 52 runs 6th wicket stand. Louwrens continued even as Brits, Chrischen Olivier and Francois Rautenbach fell in mere 13 balls, leading Namibia to their target within 40th over. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: ICC Under-19 World Cup 2016, South Africa U19 v Namibia U19 at Cox Bazar
After winning the toss and choosing to bat, South Africa remained back foot in the entire game. Left-seamer Fritz Coetzee bowled out both their opening batsmen within first three overs and restricted them to 2/2. Namibia were on a roll with constant wickets on hand until they restricted South Africa to 60/8 until Willem Ludick and Lutho Sipamla secured 55 run 9th wicket stand partnership, with Ludick and Sipamla contributing 42 and 17 respectively. Sipamla and last man Ziyaad Abrahams looked to stretch the innings until 50 overs but unfortunately could manage to score just 136/9. Coetzee and Michael van Lingen were the stars for Namibia picking three and four wickets respectively.
This win was Namibia’s first over Test-playing opposition in a Youth One-Day International (ODI) since they last beat Sri Lanka Under-19s in 2002 edition of the tournament. In their first match against Scotland, Namibia’s van Lingen was again the highest wicket take with figures of 3/19 in 8 overs and Loftie-Eaton was highest run scorer of 62 from 78 runs.
