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Ireland vs Namibia Scorecard, Match 11, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Oct 22 2021, Fri - 03:30 PM (IST)
IRELAND125/8
NAMIBIA126/2
Namibia won by 8 wickets
CRR:6.81
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Oct 22 2021, Fri - 03:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | United Arab Emirates |
| City: | Sharjah |
| Venue: | Sharjah Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | Ireland won the toss and elected to bat. |
| Namibia Playing XI: | Zane Green (wk), Craig Williams, Michael van Lingen, Gerhard Erasmus (c), David Wiese, JJ Smit, Jan Frylinck, Pikky Ya France, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Ruben Trumpelmann, Bernard Scholtz |
| Ireland Playing XI: | Paul Stirling, Kevin O'Brien, Andrew Balbirnie (c), Gareth Delany, Curtis Campher, Harry Tector, Neil Rock (wk), Mark Adair, Simi Singh, Craig Young, Joshua Little |
- Namibia and Ireland will meet in a men's T20I for just the second time; they previously met in November 2019 when Ireland defended a 135-run total to defeat Namibia by 27 runs.
- Namibia have won seven of their eight men's T20Is since their last meeting against Ireland in November 2019, losing only to Sri Lanka earlier in the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup in that span.
- Ireland have won only three of their last nine men's T20Is played away from home, including a one-over eliminator victory against Afghanistan in March 2020.
- Ireland have won only four of their 14 matches in the ICC World T20 tournament so far, only Bangladesh (23%) have a poorer win percentage than Ireland (29%) in the tournament.
- Namibia registered a six wicket win during their last time out against Netherland in this edition of the ICC World T20, in doing so they became the 18th team to register a win in the tournament.
- Namibia have a 44% bowling dot ball percentage during powerplay overs in the current edition of the ICC World T20, the least rate amongst all teams in the tournament; however, they conceded only 48% of their runs from boundaries during the same period, which is the amongst the best rate in the competition.
- Kevin O'Brien is just 52 away from scoring 2,000 runs in men's T20Is, in doing he will become the 12th player to achieve this feat and the second from Ireland after Paul Stirling.
- Mark Adair became the fourth player to take 50 wickets for Ireland during his last time time out against Sri Lanka during the 2021 ICC World T20, in doing so he became the second fastest to 50 wickets in the format (28 innings, Ajantha Mendis - 26 innings).
- JJ Smit (Namibia) was one of the three players with over 15 wickets during the ICC men's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019/20; he also took 10 catches during the tournament the most by a player.
- Paul Stirling (291 runs) was the leading run getter during the during the ICC men's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2019/20; he scored 61% of his runs from boundaries, the most for any player to have scored above 240 runs in the tournament.