Namibia beats Canada by 8 wickets to complete sweep of men's cricket team in T20 series

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 3:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton scored 65 runs and Nikolaas Davin added 52 arsenic Namibia defeated Canada by 8 wickets successful a T20 cricket crippled Sunday in Windhoek, Namibia

Their 104-run second-wicket concern was a Namibia record, breaking the erstwhile people of 103 betwixt skipper Gerhard Erasmus and Davin.

Namibia won the five-match series 3-0 with 2 games abandoned without a shot bowled owed to rain.

Namibia is ranked 15th successful the satellite successful T20 play by the International Cricket Council (ICC) portion Canada is No. 21.

On Saturday, Namibia cruised to a 10-wicket win. The Africans won by 3 wickets Wednesday erstwhile the teams played a weather-shortened game.

Namibia won the flip Sunday and sent Canada successful to bat.

Captain Nicholas Kirton led the mode with an innings of 37 arsenic the Canadians finished astatine 142 for 7 successful their 20 innings. Batting No. 4, Kirton deed 4 fours successful his 26-ball knock.

Navneet Dhaliwal scored 21 runs and chap opener Dilpreet Bajwa added 20.

Namibia reached the triumph people with 2 balls near successful the 16th over, finishing astatine 143 for two. Darvin was not retired with 3 fours and 1 six successful his 41-ball knock.

Weather was besides a origin successful the caller ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 tri-series hosted by Namibia. Canada's 2 games against the 14th-ranked Netherlands connected March 5 and 11 were some called disconnected owed to inclement weather.

Canada and Namibia divided their 2 World League 2 meetings.

Canada sits 3rd successful the eight-team World League array astatine 9-5 with 2 no-results.