*Official* Emerging Nations Cricket Thread

[SeamUp]

The Afrikaners aren't very imaginative with their names huh

Trust me they are imaginative now. Coming up with all sorts of new name like Lhuan-dre. Plus they've always had a mix of Dutch, German & French so quite wide-ranging.

Johan van Der Merwe is like your John Smith.

 

[Chubb]

Trust me they are imaginative now. Coming up with all sorts of new name like Lhuan-dre. Plus they've always had a mix of Dutch, German & French so quite wide-ranging.

Johan van Der Merwe is like your John Smith.

My girlfriend is an Afrikaner so I spend a fair bit of time with her friend group. One of them is named Ruphil, pronounced Roo-paul. I almost did a double take.

NB It is not actually pronounced Ru-Paul, but it sounded close to it to my English ear.

 

[andruid]

Canada getting jobbed on their Namibia tour

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/canada-in-namibia-2024-25-1474406/namibia-vs-canada-4th-t20i-1476797/live-cricket-score

 

[SeamUp]

Namibia are co-hosting the U19 CWC but failed to qualify after they finished behind Tanzania in Africa qualifying.

Feels a bit sad. Same likely to happen for the 50-over CWC.

This after they built new facilities in Windhoek.

 

[LangleyburyCCPlayer]

Namibia are co-hosting the U19 CWC but failed to qualify after they finished behind Tanzania in Africa qualifying.

Feels a bit sad. Same likely to happen for the 50-over CWC.

This after they built new facilities in Windhoek.

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And yet the Yanks qualified automatically for the T20 World Cup last year...go figure!

 

[andruid]

Namibia are co-hosting the U19 CWC but failed to qualify after they finished behind Tanzania in Africa qualifying.

Feels a bit sad. Same likely to happen for the 50-over CWC.

This after they built new facilities in Windhoek.

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I was following the qualifiers under the assumption that there was only 1 slot on account of Namibia being a co-host.

It reminds me of the time Cricket Kenya developed several private club's cricket grounds to ODI status, to host the 2009 under 19 world cup, only for the whole thing to be moved to New Zealand.