Series Name: | Namibian cricket team in Zimbabwe in 2022 |
Team1 Image: | Flag of Zimbabwe.svg |
Team1 Name: | Zimbabwe |
Team2 Image: | Flag of Namibia.svg |
Team2 Name: | Namibia |
From Date: | 17 |
To Date: | 24 May 2022 |
Team1 Captain: | Craig Ervine[1] |
Team2 Captain: | Gerhard Erasmus |
No Of Twenty20s: | 5 |
Team1 Twenty20s Won: | 2 |
Team2 Twenty20s Won: | 3 |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Wesley Madhevere (163) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Runs: | Craig Williams (139) |
Team1 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Sikandar Raza (6) Tendai Chatara (6) |
Team2 Twenty20s Most Wickets: | Bernard Scholtz (7) |
The Namibia cricket team toured Zimbabwe in May 2022 to play five Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.[2] [3] The matches were played at the Queens Sports Club in Bulawayo,[4] [5] and it was the first men's T20I series between Zimbabwe and Namibia.[6]
Zimbabwe won the opening match of the series by seven runs, with captain Craig Ervine scoring an unbeaten 55 runs.[7] Namibia then won the second match by eight wickets to level the series,[8] and recorded their first win against Zimbabwe in international cricket.[9] Zimbabwe won the third T20I by eight wickets, with Wesley Madhevere finishing 73 not out.[10] Namibia went on to win the fourth match, with captain Gerhard Erasmus scoring 59 not out.[11] Zane Green hit the winning runs off the last ball of the game, to level the series at 2–2, with one match to play.[12] In the fifth and final match, Namibia won by 32 runs, to win the series 3–2.[13] It was the first time that Namibia had won a bilateral series against a Full Member side.[14]