The Eagles Secure Their First Victory | Sports

The Namibian Richelieu Eagles lastly posted a victory of their Tri-Nations collection once they convincingly beat the UAE by eight wickets on the United subject yesterday. 

Namibia’s bowlers, led by JJ Smit, created the platform as they skittled UAE out for an under-par 190 – a goal that was by no means going to be sufficient as Namibia reached it with ease, for the lack of two wickets, with greater than 20 overs in hand. 

Smit acquired an early breakthrough within the UAE’s innings, dismissing Aryansh Sharma for a duck, and when Tangeni Lungameni dismissed Muhammad Waseem for one run, they had been two down with solely 15 runs on the board.

Alishan Sharafu (31) and Vishnu Sukumaran (30) revived their innings, however Namibia’s bowlers pegged them again with common wickets, and solely Asif Khan with 26 and Ali Naseer with 61 off 62 balls (7×4, 2×6) additional down the order may make a lot of an impression, earlier than the entire staff was out for 190 off 43,2 overs. 

Smit was Namibia’s stand-out bowler with three wickets for 50 runs off 8,2 overs, whereas Tangeni Lungameni took 2/36 and Bernard Scholtz 2/26. 

Namibia’s innings acquired off to an awesome begin as Michael van Lingen and JP Kotze shared a gap wicket stand of 98 off solely 13,1 overs, earlier than Van Lingen was bowled by Basil Hameed for 67 off 43 balls (12×4, 2×6). 

JP Kotze was dismissed for 40 off 53 balls (6×4), however Gerhard Erasmus and Zane Green continued the batting onslaught, sharing an unbroken third wicket partnership of 47-runs to take Namibia to a cushty eight-wicket victory with 31 overs to spare. 

Erasmus remained not out on 59 off 46 balls (6×4, 3×6), whereas Green was not out on 21 off 21 balls (3×4). 

It was Namibia’s first victory of their house Tri-Nations collection after shedding their first encounter to the UAE and each matches towards the USA.

The win put them fourth on the Cricket World Cup League 2 go surfing 10 factors from 12 matches, however Scotland are simply behind them on 9 factors from solely seven matches. The UAE stay backside of the go surfing two factors, whereas the USA had been the large winners of the collection, profitable all 4 their matches to maneuver as much as second place on the go surfing 12 factors, simply behind Canada on 14. 

With the 50-over collection having come to an finish, Namibia, USA and the UAE will now be concerned in a T20 tri-nations collection beginning on the Wanderers subject on Sunday when Namibia takes on the UAE at 14h00.