Trent Johnstone

After nearly a year and a half of competition, with nine teams playing a total of 28 matches, the ICC Intercontinental Cup 2007-08 came down to the last few thrilling overs on the last day of the last match before we knew who would contest the final.

As Ireland pushed for victory on day four today in Nairobi, Kenya did its best to play out for the draw that would take it to South Africa for the final against Namibia. But with just 20 minutes left in...

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Bjorn Kotze

Namibia are raring to go for their three-day SAA Challenge match against Western Province which starts at the Wanderers field on Thursday.

The Namibian selectors have made one change to the team that lost by eight runs to Ireland, brining in top order batsman Gerhard Rudolph for all rounder Bjorn Kotze, who is unavailable due to work commitments.

Team manager Abe Louw said that they were confident of doing well and hoped that the match would...

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Ireland’s cricket captain William Porterfield said that the variation in their team could be the key to defeating Namibia, according to an International Cricket Council (ICC) press release.

Speaking ahead of Friday’s crucial ICC Intercontinental Cup match in Windhoek, Porterfield said Namibia would be a tough nut to crack but if his players performed to their potential he was confident of victory.

“We have pretty much a full-strength squad, which is a great boost for...

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A new cricket magazine, Cover Point, has recently been established which will focus on the Associate member countries of the International Cricket Council.

Namibia is an associate member along with other countries like Scotland, Canada, Bermuda, the United Arab Emirates, Holland and Ireland, whom they will play in an ICC Intercontinental Cup match starting on Friday.

Cover Point interviewed the chief executive officer of Cricket Namibia, Laurie Pieters, who also represents...

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Namibia’s national U17 cricket team won the ICC Africa Central and Southern Region U17 tournament in Benoni, South Africa on September 1, after beating Zambia in the final.

In a closely contested final, Namibia prevailed to win the match by only 14 runs.

Namibia were all out for 159 runs with Andrew Forrest top scoring with 50 runs.

Zambia were then dismissed for 145 runs, with Wian van Vuuren taking 4/30 which also won him the man of the match award....

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