Botswanan cricket team in Namibia in 2019

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|  Namibia|  Botswana
Dates|  18 – 24 August 2019
Captains|  Gerhard Erasmus|  Karabo Motlhanka
Twenty20 International series
Results|  Namibia won the 4-match series 4–0
Most runs|  Stephan Baard (166)|  Karabo Motlhanka (87)
Most wickets|  Gerhard Erasmus (7)|  Dhruv Maisuria (8)

The Botswana cricket team toured Namibia in August 2019 to play a four-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series.[1][2] The series was the first bilateral T20I series hosted in the country and provided Namibia with preparation for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.[1][2] The teams also played two friendly 50-over matches either side of the T20I series.[1][2]

## Squads[edit]

Namibia[3] |  Botswana

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* Gerhard Erasmus (c)
* Stephan Baard
* Karl Birkenstock
* Niko Davin
* Jan Frylinck
* Zane Green (wk)
* Zhivago Groenewald
* Jean-Pierre Kotze
* Lo-handre Louwrens
* Tangeni Lungameni
* Bernard Scholtz
* Danie van Schoor
* Ben Shikongo
* JJ Smit
* Craig Williams
* Pikky Ya France

* Karabo Motlhanka (c) (wk)
* Dimpho Kegasitswe
* Boemo Khumalo
* Dhruv Maisuria
* Valentine Mbazo
* Mmoloki Mooketsi
* James Moses
* Reginald Nehonde
* Tharindu Perera
* Katlo Piet
* Hemal Pragji
* Adithiya Rangaswamy
* Ameer Saiyed
* Phemelo Silas

## 50-over series[edit]

### 1st 50-over match[edit]

18 August 2019
09:30
Scorecard

Botswana
92 (35.1 overs)

Namibia
93/3 (21.2 overs)

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Reginald Nehonde 41 (72)
Tangeni Lungameni 3/11 (4.1 overs)

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Stephan Baard 34 (52)
Mmoloki Mooketsi 2/16 (5 overs)

Namibia won by 7 wickets
United Ground, Windhoek

* Botswana won the toss and elected to bat.

### 2nd 50-over match[edit]

24 August 2019
09:30

Namibia

Botswana

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Namibia won
United Ground, Windhoek

* No scores were published for this match.

## T20I series[edit]

### 1st T20I[edit]

19 August 2019
14:00
Scorecard

Namibia
193/4 (20 overs)

Botswana
100/7 (20 overs)

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Craig Williams 68* (31)
Dhruv Maisuria 3/23 (4 overs)

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Valentine Mbazo 27* (27)
Tangeni Lungameni 2/16 (3 overs)

Namibia won by 93 runs
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Marthinus Louw (Nam) and Claude Thorburn (Nam)
Player of the match: Craig Williams (Nam)

* Botswana won the toss and elected to field.
* Ben Shikongo, Craig Williams, Pikky Ya France (Nam), Dimpho Kegasitswe, Boemo Khumalo, Valentine Mbazo, Hemal Pragji, Ameer Saiyed and Phemelo Silas (Bot) all made their T20I debuts.

### 2nd T20I[edit]

20 August 2019
14:00
Scorecard

Namibia
240/3 (20 overs)

Botswana
116/2 (20 overs)

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Jean-Pierre Kotze 101* (43)
Adithiya Rangaswamy 1/5 (1 over)

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Karabo Motlhanka 59 (55)
Ben Shikongo 1/20 (4 overs)

Namibia won by 124 runs
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Andrew Louw (Nam) and Claus Schumacher (Nam)
Player of the match: Jean-Pierre Kotze (Nam)

* Botswana won the toss and elected to field.
* Jean-Pierre Kotze (Nam) made his T20I debut. He also became the first batsman for Namibia to score a century in T20Is.[4]

### 3rd T20I[edit]

22 August 2019
14:00
Scorecard

Namibia
174/8 (20 overs)

Botswana
96 (18.1 overs)

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Stephan Baard 92 (58)
Dhruv Maisuria 4/28 (4 overs)

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Tharindu Perera 24 (18)
Craig Williams 3/9 (2 overs)

Namibia won by 78 runs
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Marthinus Louw (Nam) and Claude Thorburn (Nam)
Player of the match: Stephan Baard (Nam)

* Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.

### 4th T20I[edit]

23 August 2019
10:00
Scorecard

Botswana
85/8 (20 overs)

Namibia
86/2 (11.1 overs)

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Tharindu Perera 30 (32)
Ben Shikongo 2/4 (2 overs)

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Gerhard Erasmus 46* (33)
Mmoloki Mooketsi 1/22 (4 overs)

Namibia won by 8 wickets
United Ground, Windhoek
Umpires: Marthinus Louw (Nam) and Jeff Luck (Nam)
Player of the match: Gerhard Erasmus (Nam)

* Botswana won the toss and elected to bat.
* Lo-handre Louwrens (Nam) made his T20I debut.

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Eagles to use Botswana T20 series to prepare for World Cup Qualifier in UAE". Namibia Economist. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
2. ^ a b c "Namibia to host first ever T20 Internationals". Cricket Namibia. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
3. ^ "Namibia squad announced". Cricket Namibia via Facebook. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
4. ^ "Kotze leads Namibia to huge victory". The Namibian. Retrieved 22 August 2019.

## External links[edit]

* Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

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