2022 Namibia Tri-Nation Series (round 17)

The 2022 Namibia Tri-Nation Series was the 17th round of the 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament, took place in Namibia in November 2022.^[1][2] It was a tri-nation series between Namibia, Papua New Guinea and the United States cricket teams, with the matches played as One Day International (ODI) fixtures.^[3] The ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 formed part of the qualification pathway to the 2023 Cricket World Cup.^[4][5]

2022 Namibia Tri-Nation Series
Part of 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2
Date	19–26 November 2022
Location	Namibia
Player of the series	Assad Vala
Teams  Namibia  Papua New Guinea  United States Captains Gerhard Erasmus Assad Vala Monank Patel Most runs Gerhard Erasmus (152) Assad Vala (226) Monank Patel (153) Most wickets Tangeni Lungameni (9) Ruben Trumpelmann (9) Assad Vala (4) Ian Holland (8) Jasdeep Singh (8)
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Originally the series was scheduled to take place in September 2020.^[3][6] However, the series was postponed in July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[7][8] In December 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced the rescheduled dates for the series.^[9]

Namibia and the United States each claimed three wins from four games, while Papua New Guinea continued their struggles in the Cricket World Cup League 2 by losing all four of their matches in Windhoek.^[10] In the fourth match of the series, Namibia's Tangeni Lungameni took six wickets for thirty-two runs in a victory against Papua New Guinea, setting the best ODI bowling figures for his country in an ODI.^[11][12]

Squads

Namibia[13]	Papua New Guinea[14]	United States[15][16]
Gerhard Erasmus (c) JJ Smit (vc) Karl Birkenstock Jan Frylinck Zane Green (wk) Divan la Cock Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton (wk) Lo-handre Louwrens (wk) Tangeni Lungameni Bernard Scholtz Ben Shikongo Ruben Trumpelmann Michael van Lingen Pikky Ya France	Assad Vala (c) Charles Amini Sese Bau Kiplin Doriga (wk) Riley Hekure Hiri Hiri Semo Kamea Kabua Morea Alei Nao Lega Siaka Chad Soper Gaudi Toka Tony Ura Norman Vanua	Monank Patel (c, wk) Aaron Jones (vc) Saideep Ganesh Ian Holland Shayan Jahangir (wk) Nosthush Kenjige Sushant Modani Saurabh Netravalkar Nisarg Patel Usman Rafiq Gajanand Singh Jasdeep Singh Cameron Stevenson Steven Taylor

Fixtures

1st ODI

19 November 2022 09:30 Scorecard

Papua New Guinea  107 (38.5 overs)	v	Namibia 108/2 (15.1 overs)
Assad Vala 44 (90) Tangeni Lungameni 2/9 (6 overs)		Lo-handre Louwrens 36 (24) Charles Amini 1/24 (3 overs)

Namibia won by 8 wickets Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek Umpires: Bongani Jele (SA) and Claude Thorburn (Nam) Player of the match: Tangeni Lungameni (Nam)

• Namibia won the toss and elected to field.

2nd ODI

20 November 2022 09:30 Scorecard

United States  244/8 (50 overs)	v	Namibia 173 (43.4 overs)
Gajanand Singh 66 (65) Bernard Scholtz 3/31 (9 overs)		Gerhard Erasmus 27 (50) Saurabh Netravalkar 2/13 (6.4 overs)

United States won by 71 runs Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek Umpires: Bongani Jele (SA) and Claus Schumacher (Nam) Player of the match: Gajanand Singh (USA)

• Namibia won the toss and elected to field.
• Shayan Jahangir (USA) made his ODI debut.

3rd ODI

22 November 2022 09:30 Scorecard

Papua New Guinea  149 (47.5 overs)	v	United States 152/4 (30.3 overs)
Assad Vala 29 (35) Nosthush Kenjige 2/18 (10 overs)		Monank Patel 50 (65) Assad Vala 2/25 (7 overs)

United States won by 6 wickets Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek Umpires: Claus Schumacher (Nam) and Claude Thorburn (Nam) Player of the match: Monank Patel (USA)

• United States won the toss and elected to field.

4th ODI

23 November 2022 10:00 Scorecard

Papua New Guinea  236 (49.2 overs)	v	Namibia 241/7 (48 overs)
Assad Vala 59 (53) Tangeni Lungameni 6/42 (9 overs)		Gerhard Erasmus 71 (96) Norman Vanua 2/44 (7 overs)

Namibia won by 3 wickets Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek Umpires: Bongani Jele (SA) and Claude Thorburn (Nam) Player of the match: Tangeni Lungameni (Nam)

• Papua New Guinea won the toss and elected to bat.

5th ODI

25 November 2022 10:00 Scorecard

United States  266/7 (50 overs)	v	Papua New Guinea 231 (48.2 overs)
Monank Patel 66 (69) Kabua Morea 2/49 (9 overs)		Assad Vala 94 (97) Jasdeep Singh 4/32 (9.2 overs)

United States won by 35 runs Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek Umpires: Andrew Louw (Nam) and Claus Schumacher (Nam) Player of the match: Steven Taylor (USA)

• United States won the toss and elected to bat.

6th ODI

26 November 2022 10:00 Scorecard

United States  211/7 (50 overs)	v	Namibia 212/4 (44.4 overs)
Ian Holland 40 (49) Bernard Scholtz 3/26 (10 overs)		Divan la Cock 59 (84) Ian Holland 2/36 (7 overs)

Namibia won by 6 wickets Wanderers Cricket Ground, Windhoek Umpires: Bongani Jele (SA) and Andrew Louw (Nam) Player of the match: Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton (Nam)

• Namibia won the toss and elected to field.

References

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7. "Two more ICC qualifying events postponed due to Covid-19". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
8. "Two African ICC qualifying events postponed due to COVID-19". Emerging Cricket. 23 July 2020. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
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11. "Rejuvenated Eagles take on USA". The Namibian. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
12. "Eagles beat PNG after great comeback". The Namibian. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
13. "2022 Ends off with exciting Castle Lite Series". Cricket Namibia. 14 November 2022. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
14. "Kumul Petroleum PNG Barramundis squad announcement". Cricket PNG (via Facebook). 10 November 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
15. "Team USA squad named for final ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 series in Namibia". USA Cricket. November 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
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External links

• Series home at ESPNcricinfo