Namibia to host Oman and UAE for CWC League 2 series in November/December 2021

Cricket Namibia (CN) will be hosting men’s national squads from Oman and United Arab Emirates (UAE) from November 26th – December 06th, 2021 for the 9th round of Cricket World Cup (CWC) League 2 Championships, which is the qualification pathway tournament towards 2023 ICC Cricket World Cup in India. The schedule for the event includes the two (2) pending games from their previous League 2 event held in Oman, where a match each against Namibia and UAE were postponed.

All the three countries will be playing each other twice during the double round-robin group stage format in the 50-overs format. Oman are currently at the top of the points table, having played 18 games already in the League 2 competition. Both Namibia and UAE have played only 7 games out of their scheduled 36 games in the competition so far.

Squads

Oman: Zeeshan Maqsood (Captain), Khawar Ali, Aqib Ilyas, Suraj Kumar, Naseem Khushi, Jatinder Singh, Bilal Khan, Mohammad Nadeem, Ayaan Khan, Sandeep Goud, Nester Dhamba, Kaleemullah, Kashyap Prajapati and Fayyaz Butt

Namibia: JJ Smit (Captain), Jan Frylinck, Karl Birkenstock, Ben Shikongo, Bernard Scholtz, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Craig Williams, Michael van Lingen, Stephen Baard, Ruben Trumpelmann, Zane Green, Helao Ya France, Michau du Preez and Mauritius Ngupita

UAE: Ahmed Raza (Captain), Muhammad Waseem, Chirag Suri, C. P. Rizwaan, Vriitya Aravind, Muhammad Usman, Rohan Mustafa, Kashif Daud, Karthik Meiyappan, Zahoor Khan, Raja Akif Ullah Khan, Junaid Siddique, Basil Hameed and Mohammad Boota

CWC League 2 – 9th Round – Schedule

26th November 2021: Oman vs Namibia
27th November 2021: Namibia vs Oman
29th November 2021: Oman vs UAE
30th November 2021: UAE vs Namibia
02nd December 2021: Oman vs UAE
04th December 2021: Namibia vs Oman
05th December 2021: Oman vs UAE
06th December 2021: UAE vs Namibia