ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[sovie]

LOL... this is definitely not true. Nepal team is 100% comprised of Nepali citizens. Unlike the case with United Arab Emirates and Oman, they don't want to import first class players from India and Pakistan and create a "national" team that doesn't contain any nationals. But this strategy hasn't worked well for them. Over the years, they have lost in major ICC tournaments to teams that are primarily comprised of foreigners. And as a result of this, their fund allocation from the ICC has been reduced to almost nothing.

BTW, some shit is going on with the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2. During the last match between Scotland and Nepal, the Scottish players refused to shake hands with Sandeep Lamichhane, who is currently undergoing legal proceedings for rape charges. Lamichhane claims that he was trapped and the charges are false. But the court is yet to announce its verdict and he is out on bail as of now.

Has this act of not shaking hands committed by Nepal players the biased ICC would have intervened by now. But since the act is done by Scotland so ICC has no issue with it. As long as the matter is in court no one can blame Lamichhane. Its the court which has to give decision not players.

I don't have much experience about Nepal team. However, after seeing Nepal's performance against Scotland, I can understand that Nepal will have a chance to win this match too if Nepali batsmen are able to perform as they did in the previous match.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

Meanwhile Nepal is having another ODI against Namibia and so far Namibia has scored 232 runs and lost 6 wikcete. Nepal has got key wikcet of Pikky Ya France. He is unlucky to miss his fifty by just 1 runs. With 9 balls left it looks like Namibia will give target of 250.

[Tony116]

LOL... this is definitely not true. Nepal team is 100% comprised of Nepali citizens. Unlike the case with United Arab Emirates and Oman, they don't want to import first class players from India and Pakistan and create a "national" team that doesn't contain any nationals. But this strategy hasn't worked well for them. Over the years, they have lost in major ICC tournaments to teams that are primarily comprised of foreigners. And as a result of this, their fund allocation from the ICC has been reduced to almost nothing.

BTW, some shit is going on with the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2. During the last match between Scotland and Nepal, the Scottish players refused to shake hands with Sandeep Lamichhane, who is currently undergoing legal proceedings for rape charges. Lamichhane claims that he was trapped and the charges are false. But the court is yet to announce its verdict and he is out on bail as of now.

Yes, it is true. Nepal is not made up of foreign players like the other teams, UAE, Oman, etc. And that is a very good thing for any team. Nepal is a team that certainly has very good potential. With a little more funding from the ICC, it could have been a better future for Nepal. But we all know that the actual authority, the big four, do not want that to happen. The money is only going to go where they want it to go.

No one in the world actually believes in the phrase, "innocent until proven guilty". People say they believe that. But they do not actually follow that. people that are very quick to judge anyone. From my point of view, it was disrespectful toward Sandeep Lamichhane. If he is proven innocent, how are they going to make it up to him?

[Vaskiy]

LOL... this is definitely not true. Nepal team is 100% comprised of Nepali citizens. Unlike the case with United Arab Emirates and Oman, they don't want to import first class players from India and Pakistan and create a "national" team that doesn't contain any nationals. But this strategy hasn't worked well for them. Over the years, they have lost in major ICC tournaments to teams that are primarily comprised of foreigners. And as a result of this, their fund allocation from the ICC has been reduced to almost nothing.

BTW, some shit is going on with the ongoing ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2. During the last match between Scotland and Nepal, the Scottish players refused to shake hands with Sandeep Lamichhane, who is currently undergoing legal proceedings for rape charges. Lamichhane claims that he was trapped and the charges are false. But the court is yet to announce its verdict and he is out on bail as of now.

Yes, it is true. Nepal is not made up of foreign players like the other teams, UAE, Oman, etc. And that is a very good thing for any team. Nepal is a team that certainly has very good potential. With a little more funding from the ICC, it could have been a better future for Nepal. But we all know that the actual authority, the big four, do not want that to happen. The money is only going to go where they want it to go.

No one in the world actually believes in the phrase, "innocent until proven guilty". People say they believe that. But they do not actually follow that. people that are very quick to judge anyone. From my point of view, it was disrespectful toward Sandeep Lamichhane. If he is proven innocent, how are they going to make it up to him?

Yes, early judgement is not good. Each and every human being is comprised of sin. This is not fair with the Scottish players, it is against the sportsmanship. Nepal is really a good team and their performances were really impressive. In today's match Nepal lost early wicket, but from the one down the players did responsible play and took it to an easy win.

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Yes, early judgement is not good. Each and every human being is comprised of sin. This is not fair with the Scottish players, it is against the sportsmanship. Nepal is really a good team and their performances were really impressive. In today's match Nepal lost early wicket, but from the one down the players did responsible play and took it to an easy win.

In my opinion Namibia team was also played a good innings today. Because 274 runs is quite a good amount in ODI format. However, Namibia's bowling side looked a bit weak today as their three bowlers game over 7 runs per power.
 On the other hand, Nepal kept their batting sides same as Namibia till 17 or 18 overs but around after 20 overs they brought an extra speed to the game and it enabled them to win till the last.

[Tony116]

Yes, early judgement is not good. Each and every human being is comprised of sin. This is not fair with the Scottish players, it is against the sportsmanship. Nepal is really a good team and their performances were really impressive. In today's match Nepal lost early wicket, but from the one down the players did responsible play and took it to an easy win.

In my opinion Namibia team was also played a good innings today. Because 274 runs is quite a good amount in ODI format. However, Namibia's bowling side looked a bit weak today as their three bowlers game over 7 runs per power.
 On the other hand, Nepal kept their batting sides same as Namibia till 17 or 18 overs but around after 20 overs they brought an extra speed to the game and it enabled them to win till the last.

The positive thing for Nepal was almost all of the players were able to bat well consistently. For Namibia, the one individual score that stood out was Zane Green. They needed one or two more half centuries. In the end, it was not as close as I thought it could be. With 15 balls and 3 wickets left, it was a good performance from Nepal. And Nepal was also able to keep the required run rate under control.

[eaLiTy]

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Nepal is situated in a region where we have 5 test teams, i.e., Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Afghanistan but still there is no presence of Nepal in ICC events. In ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2, Nepal is at second last place but they were able to beat the top team i.e. Scotland today. This tells the story that Nepal has the potential to play good cricket.

The geographical location is right but they need to produce consistent performance to be able to included among the main teams, Afghanistan earned their position by being the top team in the associate leagues and winning major tournaments and if Nepal can replicate that kind of performance consistently then they can move up the division and compete among the top teams which might actually take a lot of time considering their rankings.

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Yes, early judgement is not good. Each and every human being is comprised of sin. This is not fair with the Scottish players, it is against the sportsmanship. Nepal is really a good team and their performances were really impressive. In today's match Nepal lost early wicket, but from the one down the players did responsible play and took it to an easy win.

In my opinion Namibia team was also played a good innings today. Because 274 runs is quite a good amount in ODI format. However, Namibia's bowling side looked a bit weak today as their three bowlers game over 7 runs per power.
 On the other hand, Nepal kept their batting sides same as Namibia till 17 or 18 overs but around after 20 overs they brought an extra speed to the game and it enabled them to win till the last.

The positive thing for Nepal was almost all of the players were able to bat well consistently. For Namibia, the one individual score that stood out was Zane Green. They needed one or two more half centuries. In the end, it was not as close as I thought it could be. With 15 balls and 3 wickets left, it was a good performance from Nepal. And Nepal was also able to keep the required run rate under control.

I was actually surprised to see that match against Scotland, Nepal batted very well against a big opposition like Scotland especially when their top order batsmen failed their last order batsmen took up the responsibility and successfully won the match.
But I like more that they have arranged their batting line-up based on performance with Scotland for the game against Namibia.  And this batting line-up of theirs has worked successfully to won against Namibia today. Congratulations to Nepal for the b2b winning 

[Vaskiy]

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Nepal is situated in a region where we have 5 test teams, i.e., Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Afghanistan but still there is no presence of Nepal in ICC events. In ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2, Nepal is at second last place but they were able to beat the top team i.e. Scotland today. This tells the story that Nepal has the potential to play good cricket.

The geographical location is right but they need to produce consistent performance to be able to included among the main teams, Afghanistan earned their position by being the top team in the associate leagues and winning major tournaments and if Nepal can replicate that kind of performance consistently then they can move up the division and compete among the top teams which might actually take a lot of time considering their rankings.

The location is right and the country can have good training sessions. Recently the performance have improved much from Nepal. Earlier it is very hard to see such kind of chase as well first batting score from Nepal. Most of the time the the score won't cross 200 runs. As an user suggested, the consistency in performance over the matches will make big changes in the Nepal cricket team.

[ThemePen]

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Nepal is situated in a region where we have 5 test teams, i.e., Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Afghanistan but still there is no presence of Nepal in ICC events. In ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2, Nepal is at second last place but they were able to beat the top team i.e. Scotland today. This tells the story that Nepal has the potential to play good cricket.

The geographical location is right but they need to produce consistent performance to be able to included among the main teams, Afghanistan earned their position by being the top team in the associate leagues and winning major tournaments and if Nepal can replicate that kind of performance consistently then they can move up the division and compete among the top teams which might actually take a lot of time considering their rankings.

The location is right and the country can have good training sessions. Recently the performance have improved much from Nepal. Earlier it is very hard to see such kind of chase as well first batting score from Nepal. Most of the time the the score won't cross 200 runs. As an user suggested, the consistency in performance over the matches will make big changes in the Nepal cricket team.

Yes of course this is a good move from Nepal cricket team and I really appreciate the progress of this team just like you I also think that soon we can see the Nepal team in the top cricket teams(its really hard but those can achieve goal who tries best). If the government will decide to give a handsome budget to the cricket board so we can see more improvement in this team. By the way this an opinion, what will happen no one knows.

[Sithara007]

Yes of course this is a good move from Nepal cricket team and I really appreciate the progress of this team just like you I also think that soon we can see the Nepal team in the top cricket teams(its really hard but those can achieve goal who tries best). If the government will decide to give a handsome budget to the cricket board so we can see more improvement in this team. By the way this an opinion, what will happen no one knows.

Nepal is not a very rich country and therefore the players can't expect a lot of fund from the government. Nepal, like most of the other associate nations are heavily dependent on funding from the ICC. But the problem is that ICC funding for Associate nations got reduced by around 80% in 2015, due to the big-3 formula. In case of Nepal, the decrease was even steeper, because they lost some matches to teams like Oman and UAE. It was like a chain reaction. Players were forced to retire due to lack of funds, and as a result they lose crucial matches. And when they lose matches, their funding goes down even more.

And although the BCCI has refused to support Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) till now, they are receiving some support from the PCB. A few days back, Mohammad Rizwan met the CAN officials, and some of the Nepal players including Lamichhane.

Now coming to the issue between Sandeep Lamichhane and Scotland players, I believe that it could have been avoided. Of all the teams, I am surprised that it is Scotland who are over-reacting here. Scotland Cricket is under investigation for 22 allegations of racism, directed against players of Asian origin. This issue was first raised by their ex-player Majid Haq. An investigation recently found Scotland Cricket to be institutionally racist.

[MusaPk]

Nepal is not a very rich country and therefore the players can't expect a lot of fund from the government. Nepal, like most of the other associate nations are heavily dependent on funding from the ICC. But the problem is that ICC funding for Associate nations got reduced by around 80% in 2015, due to the big-3 formula. In case of Nepal, the decrease was even steeper, because they lost some matches to teams like Oman and UAE. It was like a chain reaction. Players were forced to retire due to lack of funds, and as a result they lose crucial matches. And when they lose matches, their funding goes down even more.

And although the BCCI has refused to support Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) till now, they are receiving some support from the PCB. A few days back, Mohammad Rizwan met the CAN officials, and some of the Nepal players including Lamichhane.

Now coming to the issue between Sandeep Lamichhane and Scotland players, I believe that it could have been avoided. Of all the teams, I am surprised that it is Scotland who are over-reacting here. Scotland Cricket is under investigation for 22 allegations of racism, directed against players of Asian origin. This issue was first raised by their ex-player Majid Haq. An investigation recently found Scotland Cricket to be institutionally racist.

BCCI is a billion dollar board and its sad to see that they are not helping Nepal in making it to main ICC events. PCB despite financial problems have helped Afghanistan in the past and its good to see they are assisting Nepal also.

There are some good news for Nepal, after beating Scotland, they have now also beaten Namibia in ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2. Both Scotland and Namibia are occupying top slots in point's table. Below is Table of ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2. These victories are positive sign but they came very late in the league I guess.

Espncricinfo.com

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Nepal is situated in a region where we have 5 test teams, i.e., Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Afghanistan but still there is no presence of Nepal in ICC events. In ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2, Nepal is at second last place but they were able to beat the top team i.e. Scotland today. This tells the story that Nepal has the potential to play good cricket.

The geographical location is right but they need to produce consistent performance to be able to included among the main teams, Afghanistan earned their position by being the top team in the associate leagues and winning major tournaments and if Nepal can replicate that kind of performance consistently then they can move up the division and compete among the top teams which might actually take a lot of time considering their rankings.

The location is right and the country can have good training sessions. Recently the performance have improved much from Nepal. Earlier it is very hard to see such kind of chase as well first batting score from Nepal. Most of the time the the score won't cross 200 runs. As an user suggested, the consistency in performance over the matches will make big changes in the Nepal cricket team.

Yes of course this is a good move from Nepal cricket team and I really appreciate the progress of this team just like you I also think that soon we can see the Nepal team in the top cricket teams(its really hard but those can achieve goal who tries best). If the government will decide to give a handsome budget to the cricket board so we can see more improvement in this team. By the way this an opinion, what will happen no one knows.

Is true that winning three matches in a row it's a good signal for Nepal cricket board. Although statistically they still have more losses than wins, but if they can perform well in the next matches like this it will help them a lot to move their cricket board forward. As they have been able to beat strong opponents like Scotland and Namibia, I think they will be also capable of beating others as well. Their batting line-up is also not as weak as before as they have made improvements in this sector. Hope the upcoming matches will be good for them. Good luck for Nepal cricket team.

[BobK71]

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Nepal is situated in a region where we have 5 test teams, i.e., Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Afghanistan but still there is no presence of Nepal in ICC events. In ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2, Nepal is at second last place but they were able to beat the top team i.e. Scotland today. This tells the story that Nepal has the potential to play good cricket.

The geographical location is right but they need to produce consistent performance to be able to included among the main teams, Afghanistan earned their position by being the top team in the associate leagues and winning major tournaments and if Nepal can replicate that kind of performance consistently then they can move up the division and compete among the top teams which might actually take a lot of time considering their rankings.

The location is right and the country can have good training sessions. Recently the performance have improved much from Nepal. Earlier it is very hard to see such kind of chase as well first batting score from Nepal. Most of the time the the score won't cross 200 runs. As an user suggested, the consistency in performance over the matches will make big changes in the Nepal cricket team.

Yes of course this is a good move from Nepal cricket team and I really appreciate the progress of this team just like you I also think that soon we can see the Nepal team in the top cricket teams(its really hard but those can achieve goal who tries best). If the government will decide to give a handsome budget to the cricket board so we can see more improvement in this team. By the way this an opinion, what will happen no one knows.

Is true that winning three matches in a row it's a good signal for Nepal cricket board. Although statistically they still have more losses than wins, but if they can perform well in the next matches like this it will help them a lot to move their cricket board forward. As they have been able to beat strong opponents like Scotland and Namibia, I think they will be also capable of beating others as well. Their batting line-up is also not as weak as before as they have made improvements in this sector. Hope the upcoming matches will be good for them. Good luck for Nepal cricket team.

Nepal cricket has made great progress. I regularly enjoyed their game scores. There has been a major change in their batting. Nepal vs Namibia In the 4th match, Nepal won again by chasing 274 runs with 2 overs remaining. They have produced some reliable batsmen and have the ability to perform in any negative condition. If Nepal can do this performance with a good team then they will be able to come to the front line like Afghanistan.

[KennyR]

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Nepal is situated in a region where we have 5 test teams, i.e., Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Srilanka and Afghanistan but still there is no presence of Nepal in ICC events. In ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2, Nepal is at second last place but they were able to beat the top team i.e. Scotland today. This tells the story that Nepal has the potential to play good cricket.

The geographical location is right but they need to produce consistent performance to be able to included among the main teams, Afghanistan earned their position by being the top team in the associate leagues and winning major tournaments and if Nepal can replicate that kind of performance consistently then they can move up the division and compete among the top teams which might actually take a lot of time considering their rankings.

The location is right and the country can have good training sessions. Recently the performance have improved much from Nepal. Earlier it is very hard to see such kind of chase as well first batting score from Nepal. Most of the time the the score won't cross 200 runs. As an user suggested, the consistency in performance over the matches will make big changes in the Nepal cricket team.

Yes of course this is a good move from Nepal cricket team and I really appreciate the progress of this team just like you I also think that soon we can see the Nepal team in the top cricket teams(its really hard but those can achieve goal who tries best). If the government will decide to give a handsome budget to the cricket board so we can see more improvement in this team. By the way this an opinion, what will happen no one knows.

Is true that winning three matches in a row it's a good signal for Nepal cricket board. Although statistically they still have more losses than wins, but if they can perform well in the next matches like this it will help them a lot to move their cricket board forward. As they have been able to beat strong opponents like Scotland and Namibia, I think they will be also capable of beating others as well. Their batting line-up is also not as weak as before as they have made improvements in this sector. Hope the upcoming matches will be good for them. Good luck for Nepal cricket team.

Nepal cricket has made great progress. I regularly enjoyed their game scores. There has been a major change in their batting. Nepal vs Namibia In the 4th match, Nepal won again by chasing 274 runs with 2 overs remaining. They have produced some reliable batsmen and have the ability to perform in any negative condition. If Nepal can do this performance with a good team then they will be able to come to the front line like Afghanistan.

Compared to Nepal team's performance in the previous years, there is a big change. I think Nepal too have got their own T-20 league. These days players are getting improvement through these kind of leagues played within the country. If I'm not wrong the league too a reason for such performance coming from Nepal while chasing targets, because it can be seen that the players never take pressure.

[Minecache]

Nepal is not a very rich country and therefore the players can't expect a lot of fund from the government. Nepal, like most of the other associate nations are heavily dependent on funding from the ICC. But the problem is that ICC funding for Associate nations got reduced by around 80% in 2015, due to the big-3 formula. In case of Nepal, the decrease was even steeper, because they lost some matches to teams like Oman and UAE. It was like a chain reaction. Players were forced to retire due to lack of funds, and as a result they lose crucial matches. And when they lose matches, their funding goes down even more.
And although the BCCI has refused to support Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) till now, they are receiving some support from the PCB. A few days back, Mohammad Rizwan met the CAN officials, and some of the Nepal players including Lamichhane.
Now coming to the issue between Sandeep Lamichhane and Scotland players, I believe that it could have been avoided. Of all the teams, I am surprised that it is Scotland who are over-reacting here. Scotland Cricket is under investigation for 22 allegations of racism, directed against players of Asian origin. This issue was first raised by their ex-player Majid Haq. An investigation recently found Scotland Cricket to be institutionally racist.

BCCI is a billion dollar board and its sad to see that they are not helping Nepal in making it to main ICC events. PCB despite financial problems have helped Afghanistan in the past and its good to see they are assisting Nepal also.
There are some good news for Nepal, after beating Scotland, they have now also beaten Namibia in ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2. Both Scotland and Namibia are occupying top slots in point's table. Below is Table of ICC MEN'S CRICKET WORLD CUP LEAGUE 2. These victories are positive sign but they came very late in the league I guess.

Sithara007, I know that Nepal is not a very rich country. But I think as a government, they should realize Nepal has some great talent. If the government does decide to fund Nepal at least decently, they will be able to get good money out of it. I don't know about others. But I believe that the ROI is going to be good.

MusaPk, I really wanted to think of a reason why the BCCI might actually not help Nepal. But I could not think of any reason for it. It is very easy for a cricket board like that to help Nepal with a good amount of money. Yes, they will be noticed now because they have beaten two good teams.

[Crypto Library]

Scotland vs Namibia the match is gonna start at 9:15 IST (3:45 GMT) .
According to the statistics Scotland is ahead from Namibia in every sector. Head to head Scotland have won 4 of their last 5 matches against Namibia while Namibia have won only one. And Namibia also in pressure for loosing three match continuously. Their batsmen and bowlers also failed in 2 consecutive matches against Nepal.
So it can be said that in terms of confidence, they will be behind from Scotland. There are about 6 hours left to the start the match, and still I will put Scotland ahead in terms of win provability.

[romero121]

Scotland vs Namibia the match is gonna start at 9:15 IST (3:45 GMT) .
According to the statistics Scotland is ahead from Namibia in every sector. Head to head Scotland have won 4 of their last 5 matches against Namibia while Namibia have won only one. And Namibia also in pressure for loosing three match continuously. Their batsmen and bowlers also failed in 2 consecutive matches against Nepal.
So it can be said that in terms of confidence, they will be behind from Scotland. There are about 6 hours left to the start the match, and still I will put Scotland ahead in terms of win provability.

Namibia team have improved much, but they lack bowling. Need to make themselves strong with bowling, only then it is possible to win matches. In the recent matches it used to score good runs, but the target is being easily reached by the opponent. If the bowling unit had performed better those matches would've been a win for Namibia. Scotland is ahead, still we can expect some good cricket.

[ThemePen]

Scotland vs Namibia the match is gonna start at 9:15 IST (3:45 GMT) .
According to the statistics Scotland is ahead from Namibia in every sector. Head to head Scotland have won 4 of their last 5 matches against Namibia while Namibia have won only one. And Namibia also in pressure for loosing three match continuously. Their batsmen and bowlers also failed in 2 consecutive matches against Nepal.
So it can be said that in terms of confidence, they will be behind from Scotland. There are about 6 hours left to the start the match, and still I will put Scotland ahead in terms of win provability.

Namibia team have improved much, but they lack bowling. Need to make themselves strong with bowling, only then it is possible to win matches. In the recent matches it used to score good runs, but the target is being easily reached by the opponent. If the bowling unit had performed better those matches would've been a win for Namibia. Scotland is ahead, still we can expect some good cricket.

Of course Namibia team performed well but again due less source of funds this team can not make practice much. But a great zeal can make this team a good team. They are trying much hope so they will achieve the goals and can get an good position in the cricket teams. Just like Nepal. By the way these matches are really interesting.

[Minor Miner]

Scotland vs Namibia the match is gonna start at 9:15 IST (3:45 GMT) .
According to the statistics Scotland is ahead from Namibia in every sector. Head to head Scotland have won 4 of their last 5 matches against Namibia while Namibia have won only one. And Namibia also in pressure for loosing three match continuously. Their batsmen and bowlers also failed in 2 consecutive matches against Nepal.
So it can be said that in terms of confidence, they will be behind from Scotland. There are about 6 hours left to the start the match, and still I will put Scotland ahead in terms of win provability.

Namibia team have improved much, but they lack bowling. Need to make themselves strong with bowling, only then it is possible to win matches. In the recent matches it used to score good runs, but the target is being easily reached by the opponent. If the bowling unit had performed better those matches would've been a win for Namibia. Scotland is ahead, still we can expect some good cricket.

I know Namibia's bowling line-up is not experienced enough. There are very few experienced players in their squad. However, the performance of Namibia's bowlers in today's match is quite good. Namibia won the toss and elected to field. And Scotland's first wicket was taken by the Namibian bowlers for just 1 run. Scotland scored 137 runs in 32.1 overs losing 5 wickets. My guess is Scotland will be able to give a target of 210 today. Namibian bowlers Ruben and Bernard Scholtz are bowling well today. Ruben conceded just 16 runs in 7 overs and took 2 wickets. Bernard Scholtz gave only 19 runs in 8 overs. Namibia has a chance to win today's match if the performance of their batsmen is stable.