Published: Feb 02, 2016, 10:07 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 31, 2016, 10:06 AM (IST)
Good Morning! Hello and Welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Match 21 of the 2016 ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup between Group A teams Bangladesh vs Namibia. This match will be played at Cox Bazar. We will present live updates from all the happenings in the match here. Bangladesh are of safer side leading in Group A with their win both the matches. On the other hand, Namibia are equally at loggerheads with their win against Scotland and shocking win against defending champions South Africa in their Group. If Namibia can win this match against Bangladesh, they can sail through easily in this Group A maybe top the Group or it can be vice-versa. LIVE CRICKET SCORE: ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2016, Bangladesh vs Namibia
Live Cricket Score, Bangladesh U19 66/2 in 16 overs | Target |BATTING: Joyraz Sheikh 34(55), Nazmul Hossain Shanto 14(23): All over at Cox’s Bazar. Bangladesh ran over mighty Namibians to register yet another victory to remain unbeaten in the group stages. They beat them by eight wickets with 32 overs to spare.They surely are making full use of their home advantage. After Coetzee’s two early breakthroughs, no other bowler from Namibia managed to pick a wicket. Earlier, Namibia’s opening batsman Nico Davin top-scored with 19 runs in 32 balls. This showed they put no fight against the hosts.
Live Cricket Score, Bangladesh U19 18/2 in 6 overs | Target |BATTING: Joyraz Sheikh 2(12), Nazmul Hossain Shanto 4(6): Namibia have kept the Bangladesh batsmen under control so far. They have not been able to take more than two or three runs an over. Saif Hassan was the last batsman to depart back to the pavilion. Coetzee struck again, a second wicket for him in the match, leaving Bangladesh boys struggling at 13 for 2. However, since the target is not competitive at all, these early fall of wickets should not affect Bangladesh very much. OUT! Saif Hassan c Zane Green b Fritz Coetzee 8(13)
Live Cricket Score, Bangladesh U19 0/1 in 1 overs | Target |BATTING: Saif Hassan 0 (1), Joyraz Sheikh 0 (1): And Bangladesh begin their innings with fall of wicket. OUT! Pinak Ghosh by Coetzee! Bangladesh are off to shaky start and now comes in Joyraz Sheikh! Namibia have posed target of 66 and Bangladesh need a partnership to to go slowly until the end to reach this easy target!
Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 65 in 32.5 overs | BATTING: Francois Rautenbach 4 (16): And that’s a wrap for Namibia and their innings. This has been lowest score in this tournament so far with 65 all out. with Dawins and Louwrens scoring 2 digit scores, while the rest falling for single digit scores. Bangladesh has shown excellent skills with their spells restricting Namibia well and going for their third victory in tournament Saleh Ahmed Shawon, Mehedi Hasan Miraz and Ariful Islam taking two wickets each!
Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 64/9 in 32 overs | BATTING: Francois Rautenbach 4 (16), Warren van Wyk 0 (1): Another wicket down of Coetzee and Namibia are losing this game terribly with 9 wickets down. OUT! Coetzee with Arif Islam picking his third wicket now! Bangladesh are in control of the match and probably could be the lowest score of this tournament.
Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 59/6 in 24 overs | BATTING: Chrischen Olivier 0 (0), Charl Brits 5 (10): Bangladesh won the toss and elected to field first. Namibia are already off to shaky start with 5 wickets down. Lohan Louwrens and Charl Brits who created a magical partnership in the previous match are on crease. They should be able to maintain the same and play some shots to reach a high target considering Bangladesh can easily win this over. OUT! Lohan Louwrens bowled by Ariful Islam!
Bangladesh have won two games against South Africa by 43 runs and against Scotland by 114 runs. They are in excellent form and have top players like Nazmul Hossain Shanto who has always been in top form in every match along with Saif Hassan, while Mohammad Saifuddin and Saleh Ahmed Shawon who are highest wicket takers for Bangladesh. Namibia won their first match against Scotland well before 50 overs and with 9 wickets on hand and second match was jaw dropping victory with 2 wickets remaining and also well before 5o overs. Lohan Louwrens and Chris Brits were stars for Namibia in their previous match, while Coetzee and Michael van Lingen emerged through spells in the game. Since both the teams are at equal point, it will be interesting to see who can win this game as this tournament has seen unexpected twists and turns.
Squads:
Bangladesh U19: Saif Hassan, Pinak Ghosh, Joyraz Sheik, Nazmul Hossain Shanto, Mehedi Hasan(c), Zakir Hasan(wk), Mohammad Saifuddin, Saeed Sarkar, Ariful Islam, Abdul Halim, Saleh Ahmed Shawon
Namibia U19: SJ Loftie-Eaton, Niko Davin, Zane Green(c & wk), Lohan Louwrens, Jurgen Linde, Michael van Lingen, Charl Brits, Chrischen Olivier, Francois Rautenbach, Fritz Coetzee, Warren van Wyk
LIVE CRICKET SCORE: ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2016, Bangladesh vs Namibia
