Namibia Global T20

[The Professor]

The Richelieu Eagles and DP World Lions' match got in Namibia's Global T20 League underway today.

The tournament is a bit like the Champions League of cricket....just a bit crapper. The DP World Lions, Lahore Qalandars, and Richelieu Lions are the three teams that are competing. It was planned to add another squad—the Bengal state team from India—to the mix. However, the BCCI refused to give the Bengal team permission to compete.

The Namibia Global T20 competition features a total of seven matches, followed by two one-day matches between Lahore Qalandars and Richelieu Lions. The Wanderers Cricket Ground in Windhoek will host each game with the final on the 5th.

The first game was won by the South African set-up thanks to the experience of Reeza Hendricks who got 77 off 42 balls in the first innings total of 183. Namibia’s Eagles could not compete with that and fell 18 runs short.

Tomorrow sees the Richelieu Eagles play Lahore.

[The Professor]

The Lions look the team to beat with 2 wins in 2. Today Lahore looked the best of the rest as they beat the Namibian Eagles by a huge 8 wickets.

The Lions hold all the individual tournament records too. Reeza Hendricks has both the highest individual score (77 from the first game) and the most runs overall (108) - this despite playing one fewer game than his rivals.

A similar situation is in place with the bowling where Evan Jones has the only fivefer and has the best tournament figures - 7 @ 5.85.

Games continue tomorrow but the final is likely to be Lions versus Lahore.

[The Professor]

In a triumph of scheduling, Lions, the strongest team in the competition played twice today. The first game, Lions vs Peshawar Zalmi, will be repeated in tomorrow's formal. Lion's won the dress rehearsal before they lost their final game; handing Namibia Eagles a conciliation win to round off their tournament. Gerhard Erasmus was the player of the match for Namibia.


Reeza Hendricks got 55 runs in the first game and sat out the second.....and still is the tournament leading run scorer. The same is the case with Evan Jones who got 2 wickets in the first game, sat out for the second and still has 2 more wickets than anyone else.

[The Professor]

The final of this fun little competition went to form and the Lions beat the Lahore Qalanders – however it went to the wire as they needed 11 runs off the last over and 6 off the last two to take it.




Yet again Reeza Hendricks played a blinder resetting his highest score for the tournament at 94* off 59. He finishes the tournament with the first and second highest score. Evan Jones went wicketless in the final but still ends up as the best bowler with 9 wickets @ 13.55.



The Lions now chip off home and the Lahore Qalanders play out two One Day games on Wednesday and Friday…..which is odd for a T20 team.

[The Professor]

As might have been expected of a T20 side playing a 50 over game, Peshawar Zalmi started strongly but then petered away as they tried to chase down 262. Their bowling unit proved strong with Mamoon Ur Riaz registering 3-31 as Namibia Eagles got to 262-8.

Lahore looked unlikely to chase that before a massive surge of runs between the 30th and 40th overs with two back to back overs yielding 14 runs before a wicket took the wind out of their sails. They eventually ended their innings 5 runs short in a thrilling encounter.

The second and final game is on Friday.