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*Official* Emerging Nations Cricket Thread

SeamUp

International Coach
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.
 
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Chubb

International Regular
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.
 

SeamUp

International Coach
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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andruid

Cricketer Of The Year
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.
 

Kenneth Viljoen

International Regular
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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Tanzania deserve it more , they had to qualify from division 2 to get to these qualifiers and then they win every single game in the main qualifying tournament despite their cricketing resources and opportunities being nowhere near the likes of Namibia. Namibia need to do some serious soul searching , the senior and junior teams aren't matching the administrative side which is doing a great job.
 

Silver Silva

International Vice-Captain
Namibia should have been automatically qualified,a major success of a tournament is when the locals can get behind it, if host nation is not there you are giving locals less incentive to come to the stadium , also the qualifying tournament should have been in Namibia for African teams , so the teams that qualify can get an idea of the conditions because I am sure these sides hardly tour due to finances , and also the teams that don't make it can atleast experience what it's like to play in Nambia , most of these youngsters will never play an official odi or t20 so there is no reason for ICC to make qualifying a ruthless exercise.
 

SeamUp

International Coach
Tanzania deserve it more , they had to qualify from division 2 to get to these qualifiers and then they win every single game in the main qualifying tournament despite their cricketing resources and opportunities being nowhere near the likes of Namibia. Namibia need to do some serious soul searching , the senior and junior teams aren't matching the administrative side which is doing a great job.
Nothing must be taken away from Tanzania. It's pretty cool they've made it. I'm just going along with the thought process of @Silver Silva

I may be wrong when I say this but I think they probably have the least pedigree compared to Kenya, Zambia & Uganda for East African cricket.
 
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SeamUp

International Coach
Interestingly I see Salieg Nackerdien (who just left the Western Province job) is going to become Tanzanian coach.
 

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