However, Bernard Scholtz had him leg before wicket in the seventh over to setback Oman further. Disciplined bowling from the tweakers ensured that Oman’s lower-order didn’t take off with the change of pace. Scholtz and Erasmus continued providing breakthroughs for the Eagles even as Oman batters struggled to get the ball past the inner circle.
For a period of 44 deliveries between the 10th over and the 17th over, Oman failed to hit a single boundary. The Asian side tried to pick the scoring rate when Namibia pacers arrived in the death overs, but David Wiese and Trumpelmann chipped away at the tail and bowled out Oman before they could complete their quota of overs.
Namibia would seek to impress in their third successive appearance in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. For Oman this is a return to the world stage in T20 format after their last appearance as co-hosts in 2021.
So far the two games in T20 World Cup have been won by sides batting second.
In their last meeting in the format, Namibia defeated Oman 3-2 in a five-game T20I series.
Namibia: : Nikolaas Davin, Micahel van Lingen, Jan Frylinck, Gerhard Erasmus (capt), Malan Kruger, JJ Smit, David Wiese, Zane Green (wk), Ruben Trumpelmann, Bernard Scholtz, Tangeni Lungameni
Oman: Kashyap Prajapati, Naseem Khushi (wk), Aqib Ilyas (capt), Zeeshan Maqsood, Khalid Kail, Ayaan Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Mehran Khan, Shakeel Ahmed, Kaleemullah, Bilal Khan
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