Namibia bowl their way to a winning start in T20 World Cup

Namibia made a staggering beginning to the T20 World Cup as they beat Sri Lanka by an incredible 55-run edge to present their defense for Very 12 capability. The Asia Cup champions did well for about the initial 15 overs of the game after which Namibia didn't put a foot wrong. They crushed it in the demise overs before the bowling unit destroyed Sri Lanka on a two-paced surface in Geelong.

Sri Lanka pacers make happy early

Dasun Shanaka got going the procedures with his secret twist pro Maheesh Theekshana yet it was his quicks that gave him an early upperhand On the planet Cup opener. Dushmantha Chameera, who missed Sri Lanka's effective Asia Cup crusade because of a calf injury, strolled once more into the XI and struck the second ball to excuse Namibia opener Michael van Lingen. Promod Madushan, playing instead of the harmed Dilshan Madhushanka, had the other opener - Divan la Rooster - in the third finished. Namibia were in genuine difficulty by the fifth over when Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton was booted out after a blustery beginning by Chamika Karunaratne in the fifth over.

The center battle

However Gerhard Erasmus and Stephan Baard put a top on the fall of wickets, they couldn't exactly go at pace as they oversaw only 41 of every seven overs together. When Hasaranga foxed Erasmus, Namibia slid somewhat further as Baard and Wiese then fell in about three conveyances to tumble to 93 for 6 in the fifteenth over.

The Frylinck-Smit lift

Namibia got a lift from 95 for 6 out of 15 overs as Frylinck and Smit hit 68 off the last five overs. Sri Lanka's quicks didn't complete as well as they started as the passing overs brought: 11, 10, 16, 18 and 13 runs individually. The Namibian circle back started when Frylinck rebuffed a short ball from Dushmantha Chameera in the sixteenth over. Smit got into the demonstration in the accompanying over with a trudge clear off Hasaranga, after which they joined to rebuff the bowlers. Frylinck wrapped up with a 28-ball 44, that included four fours, and Smit got an unbeaten 31 off 16, with two fours and two sixes.

Sri Lanka's precarious beginning and a twofold wicket lady

Namibia conveyed the energy from the rear of their batting innings into their bowling stage as they caused problems for Sri Lanka's top-request. Wiese brought all his T20 experience to the front in only the second over when he got Kusal Mendis to top-edge a conveyance that was gotten securely by 'guardian Zane Green.

22 year-old medium pacer Ben Shikongo quieted the Sri Lankan allies in the group with two wickets off progressive conveyances in a twofold wicket lady that incorporated the excusals of Pathum Nissanka and Danushka Gunathilaka.

Like Namibia, Sri Lanka lost three in the PowerPlay and like Namibia, all they required was an organization to guide the group in the clear. Sadly for Sri Lanka, that simply never came. Just after the PowerPlay, Dhananjaya de Silva tracked down Shikongo at profound square leg with a success off Frylinck to lessen Sri Lanka to 40 for 4.

Dasun Shanaka and Bhanuka Rajapaksa's bombed recuperation mission

The senior sets of players endeavored to drag the group out of the early entanglement and seemed as though they may very well succeed. In any case, after a beverages break, Rajapaksa pursued left-arm spinner Bernard Sholtz and followed through on the cost notwithstanding matching-up well against him. He went down the track yet just hit similarly as lengthy on to succumb to a 21-ball 20.

The breakdown

There was no approaching back from Rajapaksa's excusal as Sri Lanka went from 74 for 5 in eleventh over to 92 for 9 in the sixteenth, while Namibia did magnificently well to clutch all their high gets. Maheesh Theekshana agreed with his stance past the 100-run mark however Wiese finished the paper in the nineteenth over at 108.

Brief Scores: Namibia 163/7 (Jan Frylinck 44, JJ Smit 31; Pramod Madushan 2-37) beat Sri Lanka 108 in 19 overs (Dasun Shanaka 29, Bhanuka Rajapaksa 20; David Wiese 2-16, Bernard Scholtz 2-18, Ben Shikongo 2-22, Jan Frylinck 2-26) by 55 runs