Published: Feb 11, 2016, 07:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Aug 30, 2016, 08:03 PM (IST)
Hello and Welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Nepal vs Namibia, seventh place playoff of the ICC Under- 19 World Cup Fatullah. There is not much for the teams to play in this match but for pride. Nepal started the tournament well with a thumping 32-run win over New Zealand. They continued their good form in the second match as well, registering a win against Ireland. Nepal’s slump began from the third game against India, which they lost, followed by losses against Bangladesh in the quarter-final and a defeat at the hands of Pakistan in the fifth place playoff. Namibia began their campaign with loss against England but managed to redeem themselves with a win over South Africa. They then lost to Bangladesh and India. Live Cricket Score: Nepal vs Namibia, ICC Under-19 World Cup 2016, 7th place play-off at Fatullah
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 210 in 44.2 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Sandeep Lamicchane 0 (0): Last over to go and starts with a wide. Burton Jacobs begins the innings. 21 runs and 6 balls, can an unexpected turn take place. Tamang goes for a boundary and that wraps up the innings for Nepal. 210 all out in 44. 2 overs. A good chance on hand but off goes Tamang caught by Davin and fourth wicket for van Lingen. Namibia now gets the 7th spot.
OUT’! P Tamang c Davin b van Lingen 32
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 205/9 in 44 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Prem Tamang 28 (31), Sandeep Lamicchane 0 (0): Tamang goes huge in the 44th over. 9 balls to go Nepal require 26 runs. After the huge on no runs given in the next three spells. Tamang finding it difficult to to score. Now a boundary, can this target be achieved or something unexpected can take place.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 194/9 in 43 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Prem Tamang 17 (25), Sandeep Lamicchane 0 (0): Firtz Coetzee has taken three wickets so far with his third one being Sushil Kandel. Nepal have almost lost the way out with 37 to win from 3 overs. Can the game be turned over is to look out for. Sandeep Lamicchane comes on crease and Prem Tamang still playing his best. Tamang goes for a boundary in 43rd over. Burton Jacobs is attacking the batsmen. Bowling the right spell no run from the next two spells. Last spell to go and just a single from it.
OUT! S Kandel run out 3
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 179/7 in 40 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Prem Tamang 6 (15), Kushal Burtel 2 (2): Airee goes out in the 40th over. Coetzee gets his second wicket. Last two overs saw just two to three runs from it. Nepal require 51 runs to win. Rajbir Singh comes on crease and starts with two runs. Another wicket down for Coetzee gets two wickets in 40th over. Off goes Rajbir Singh Just two runs from that over.
OUT! DS Airee caught by Green b Coetzee 31
OUT! Rajbir Singh b Coetzee 2
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 168/5 in 37 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Dipendra Singh Airee 28 (32), Prem Tamang 1 (5): Sheikh goes out and Burtan Jacobs gets his first wicket of the innings. Prem Tamang comes on crease and Jacobs has given away just one run. Petrus Burger come into attack once again and Airee, Tamang are exchanging strikes. Just two runs from 37th over.
OUT! Aarif Sheik c Rautenbach b Jacobs 30
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 157/4 in 33 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Aarif Sheik 26 (38), Dipendra Singh Airee 22 (21): It is drinks break at the moment and Nepal require 69 runs to win. Sheik and Airee have score 44 runs partnership so far. Seven runs from Petrus Burger over with a boundary and three runs. Airee and Sheik need to maintain this partnership if they want Nepal to reach the 7th place.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 141/4 in 31 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Aarif Sheik 17 (30), Dipendra Singh Airee 15 (17): Nepal are going steady with their innings and van Lingen comes into attack again for 30th over. Aarif Sheik on strike, changing the strike now to Dipendra Singh. Another excellent over by van Lingen, just two for it. Rautenbach on attack for the 31st over, singles not really helping Nepal at the moment with the target too high overs restricted. Airee gets two runs in that 3rd spell. Finally, a boundary for Nepal from Sheik. Require run rate is 5 and Nepal are going on 5 runs per over.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 118/4 in 27 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Aarif Sheik 9 (22), Dipendra Singh Airee 0 (2): 27th over on and Yogendra Singh Karki caught by Louwrens and beautiful spell by van Lingen. That adds up to his second wicket of the innings. Rautenbach going for a maiden over here. Namibia want this win badly and Nepal are helpless at the moment with their top batsmen out too quick. Just a single run conceded in that 27th over.
OUT! Yogendra Singh Karki caught by Louwrens and bowled by van Lingen 35
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 111/3 in 24 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Yogendra Singh Karki 34 (57), Aarif Sheik 3 (12): 24th over to begin and Rautenbach has given just three runs from the 23rd over. Van Lingen comes into attack once again and to Aarif Sheik and a maiden over going on at the moment. Raju Rijal was out by van Lingen himself in the 22nd over. Aarif Sheik into play now.
OUT! Raju Rijal caught by Zane Green and bowled by van Lingen 1
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 104/1 in 20 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Yogendra Singh Karki 31 (50), Raju Rijal 0 (0): Rautenbach comes into attack in 19th over with a boundary and just a single run by Karki. 20th over begins Van Lingen comes in and an xtra run given with a long wide and on strike is Karki. Dhamala goes for a boundary in the second last spell of van Lingen and out goes Dhamala caught by Louwrens and bowled by van Lingen.
OUT! Sunil Dhamala caught by Louwrens and bowled van Lingen 59
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 84/1 in 17 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Sunil Dhamala 52 (54), Yogendra Singh Karki 22 (41): Burton Jacobs starts the 16th over with an extra, and six runs from that over going at run rate of 5 runs per over. Nepal require 146 runs to win with 9 wickets on hand. Burger bowls back again for Dhamala in 17th over with Burger going for maiden over now, which crashes down and Dhamala goes for a boundary in that over. Dhamala completes half-century.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 67/1 in 14 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Sunil Dhamala 37, Yogendra Singh Karki 21: Petrus Burger comes into attack and Karki is playing his best with two boundaries so far in 13th over. Dhamala and Karki pose 55 runs 2nd wicket stand. Burton Jacobs comes into attack and no runs so far to Dhamala.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 50/1 in 10 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Sunil Dhamala 30 (29), Yogendra Singh Karki 11 (24): Warren van Wyk plays comes into bowling attack to Dhamala with two boundaries in that over. Coetzee is bowling an amazing spell with no runs given much away in the 9th over. 10th over begins with Karki and Dhamala exchanging strikes. Last spell of 10th over and 50 up for Nepal.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 16/1 in 5 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Sunil Dhamala 10 (12), Yogendra Singh Karki 2 (12): Namibia get a successful start and their wickets are down already. Yogendra Singh Karki comes on crease after Shankar Ranba goes OUT! Fritz Coetzee gets his first wicket. Karki is on strike and Coetzee has not conceded a single run in the 5th over.
OUT! Shankar Rana bowled by Fritz Coetzee 2
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Nepal U19 6/0 in 2 overs | TARGET 226 | BATTING: Sunil Dhamala 4 (6), Shankar Rana 2 (6) : Nepal begin their innings with Dhamala and Shankar Rana on crease. Fritz Coetzee comes into attack for Namibia. Warren van Wyk comes into attack for 2nd over and just a single run conceded so far. Dhamala and Rana exchanging strikes through quick singles. Last spell to go and no runs from that.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 225/9 in 45 overs | BATTING: Petrus Burger 12 (7), Warren van Wyk 0 (0): Two more overs to go for Namibia and they are at a very good total of 212 runs. Aarif Sheik bowled an expensive over. Namibia lose out on wickets immediately and manage to reach just 225 with 9 wickets down. Petrus Burger and Warren van Wyk stayed until the end to complete the innings within 45 overs. Suniul Dhamala and Lamicchane picked three wickets each. Nepal have to achieve 226 runs.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 171/5 in 39 overs | BATTING:Micheal van Lingen 25 (19), Francois Rautenbach 33 (21): Rautenbach and Lingen looking to take Namibia to 180-plus total or maybe even 200-plus total. And a boundary to end that 38th over. Aarif Sheik on attack and two runs from that second spell with 50 runs partnership from these two batsman.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 128/5 in 35 overs | BATTING:Micheal van Lingen 8 (8), Francois Rautenbach 7 (7): Louwrens approaching his half-century. Prem Tamang bowling the 30th over and Louwrens going for boundary in third spell and just a single run more. Louwrens completes his half-century and off the crease, while Char Brits goes off the crease as well and with Lamicchame and Tamang getting a wicket each. Micheal van Lingen and Francois Rautenbach are on crease. Namibia are already 115 runs. Lamichanne comes on attack again for 35th over and a boundary in the last ball.
OUT! Lohan Louwrens bowled by Prem Tamang 59
OUT! Charl Brits caught by Rijal bowled by Lamichhane 9
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 78/3 in 26 overs | BATTING: Lohan Louwrens 35 (74), Charl Brits 0 (1): Lohan Louwrens is 35 and require just 15 runs for his half-century. Though Sushil Kendel has picked three wickets, he has given away 30 runs already from 8 overs. And that is another wicket down for Namibia and fourth one for Kendel. A beautiful catch by Rijal of Zane Green in 26th over.
OUT! Zane Green caught by Rijal and bowled by Sushil Kendel 17
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 58/2 in 22 overs | BATTING: Lohan Louwrens 21 (60), Zane Green 15 (26): Nepal are leaving now stone overturned with just three runs from that brilliant 21st over. Prem Tamang’s first over and just three runs from it. Zane Green has scored just 15 runs. Louwrens needs to come up with a high score as Namibia require more runs on board. Sushil Kandel on attack and Green goes for a boundary in the first spell. Just 4 runs from that 22nd over.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 45/2 in 19 overs | BATTING: Lohan Louwrens 19 (56), Zane Green 4 (12): Linde goes off the crease with another wicket down for Namibia. Sushil Kandel gets that wicket and his first for the innings, caught by Dhamala. Sandeep Lamicchane comes on attack and Zane Green is the new batsman. Louwrens has not reached even 2o runs as he seems to be struggling with runs from Nepal bowling attack. Last spell to go for 19th over and just one run from that over.
OUT! Jurgen Linde caught by Dhamala and bowled by Sushil Kendel 19
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 37/1 in 14 overs | BATTING: Jurgen Linde 19 (40), Lohan Louwrens 15 (43): Louwrens and Linde have steadily picked up the innings. Sushil Kandel who gave away just 4 runs from his first over comes into attack again. Linde on strike and goes for a quick run giving strike to Louwrens. It is 37 runs from this 2nd wicket partnership until now. Namibia need many of these until the end of the innings. Just two runs from that over.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 16/1 in 8 overs | BATTING: Jurgen Linde 8 (22), Lohan Louwrens 7 (25): Lohan Louwrens who has been a star for Namibia needs to bring the same magic in this innings as well. It is a strive to reach the 7th place in points table. Sunil Dhamala has played 4 overs and just 7 runs conceded with a wicket on hand. Aarif Sheikh comes in to bowl his spells and Louwrens goes for 2 runs. Louwrens and Lide struggling with scoring runs as they have faced 20 and 22 balls respectively and merely 7 runs from both batsmen. The 8th over is being bowled and just two runs from that.
Namibia U19 v Nepal U19: Live Cricket Score, Namibia U19 8/1 in 3 overs | BATTING: Jurgen Linde 7 (7), Lohan Louwrens 0 (10): So Namibia begin the innings and not what the start they expected with a wicket down. The fog delayed the match and the innings is restricted to just 45 overs and what a start for Nepal. They will be happy to pick a wicket at the start of the innings.
OUT! N Davin caught by Lamichhane and bowled by Dhamala 0
Namibia U19 won the toss and elected to bat first
Squads:
Nepal: Rijal (c & wk), Aarif Sheikh, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Bhurtel, Sunil Dhamala, Himanshu Dutta, Saurav Kannal, Yogendra Singh Karki, Sandeep Lamichhane, Ishan Pandey, Rajbir Singh, Shankar Rana, Raju Dipesh Shrestha, Sandeep Sunar, Prem Tamang, Sushil Kandel, Aarif Sheikh.
Namibia: Zane Green (c & wk), Charl Brits, Petrus Burger, Niko Davin, Motjaritje Honga, Burton Jacobs, Fritz Coetzee, Jurgen Linde, SJ Loftie-Eaton, Lohan Louwrens, Chrischen Olivier, F Rautenbach, Michael van Lingen, Eben van Wyk, Warren van Wyk.
