Namibia beat Oman in the Super Over in a Group B match of the 2024 T20 World Cup, at the Kensington Oval, Bridgetown.
Namibia beat Oman in a one-sided Super Over contest – the first in 12 years at the T20 World Cup – in Barbados. Oman entrusted Bilal Khan ahead of Mehran Khan with the over, raising a few eyebrows.
David Wiese began the over with a four and a six before he ran a brace and a single. Captain Gerhard Erasmus rose to the challenge as well, putting the last two balls away for boundaries to take Namibia to 21-1.
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Wiese then took the ball and virtually sealed the match with the first three deliveries. Naseem Khushi managed only two runs and inside-edged on to the stumps. Zeeshan Maqsood’s last-ball six took Oman to 10-1, fewer than half of the target.
Earlier, Oman dropped three catches but did well to restrict Namibia to 109-6 to tie the match even as Jan Frylinck made a 48-ball 45. With five to defend in the last over, Mehran took out Frylinck and Zane Green without conceding a run in the first three balls.
Malan Kruger ran a single off the fourth ball. Wiese smashed the fifth ball hard, but it ricocheted off the stumps at the non-striker’s end to run two. Wiese swung at the last ball and missed, but as Kruger sprinted for the single, Khushi failed to collect the ball cleanly. When he did, his backhand throw missed the stumps, and Kruger completed the bye. Mehran finished with figures of 3-1-7-3.
This was the fourth tie in the history of the Men’s T20 World Cup. India beat Pakistan in a bowl-out in 2007, while both Sri Lanka and the West Indies won against New Zealand in the Super Over in 2012.
Earlier in the evening, Oman never recovered after Ruben Trumpelmann (4-21) struck twice with the first two balls of the match. Wiese (3-28) and Erasmus (2-20) ensured Oman could never build a partnership. For Oman, Khalid Kail top-scored with a 39-ball 34.
Wiese was named the Player of the Match.
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