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After praising the parity of this tournament....Belgium ended up winning all four of their games and storming the competition.

William Cope ended the tournament especially strongly. He got 2/22 against Luxembourg yesterday and then 4-18 against.......Luxembourg today.

You could say......that Luxembourg......struggled.....to Cope.

Obviously not an Indian. Maybe a South African.

Pawan Sarraf looks a good young talent. Got 4-16 in a Nepalese cup game today.

Caught some of Namibia’s domestic T20 tournament – which, by the way, has some of the most startlingly named clubs in world cricket (MR 24/7 Emergency Services, anyone?).

Today saw the underwhelming named XCO-M&M Signs take on the overly royalist King Price Kings. Despite these odd names there was a plethora of international names for those familiar with the Associate Cricket.

The star of the show was JP Kotze who got a quickfire 78 opening for the Kings – however his side could not chase down the M&Ms total of 151. They fell 5 runs short.

It seems that Blasting Namibia are the team to beat – they have won all but one of their four games.

The Professor wrote:Caught some of Namibia’s domestic T20 tournament – which, by the way, has some of the most startlingly named clubs in world cricket (MR 24/7 Emergency Services, anyone?).
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Like the old Pakistan club sides, stuff like Karachi Banks, and National Railways, etc.

Where the hell to you even begin to find Namibian cricket on the internet?

sussexpob wrote:Where the hell to you even begin to find Namibian cricket on the internet?

YouTube streams any old tat.

Speaking of which.....saw Babar Hayat go from 148 off 103 balls to 178 off 109.

Could easily get some franchise action off the back of that kind of hustle.

Namibia played Uganda twice today....well one and three quarter times thanks to the rain.

Namibia won both but the bowling of Riazat Ali Shah caught my eye for Uganda in the first match. He got 3-23 however was very much ploughing a Lone furrow. Namibia got to 134. Uganda were well behind the par score when the rain came.

Craig Williams was the more conventional star of the show in the next game. His 49 ball 81rocketed Namibia to 189 - Uganda fell 65 runs short.

Stephan Baard really is in good form. Hot off his 145 against Uganda he got 88 wickets for his home franchise team and also got 3/12 in their final match today.

Kushal Bhurtel has been making a name for himself in the ongoing Tri Series between Nepal, Netherlands and Malaysia. He made his debut against the Dutch and got 62 and today got 61 against Malaysia in an absolute mauling.

The Netherlands made this a little spicier as they won the reverse fixture to bring an end to Nepal's winning streak.

As Bas De Leede got 81* to help Netherlands overhaul a total of 206. After losing no more than one wicket in their first two games, Nepal ended the innings an unprecedented six down.

37 year old Craig Williams playing for a Namibian A team rather undermines the endeavour of such teams.

Scotland restricted Netherlands to 171 before chasing down the total with ease. Alasdair Evans bagged his maiden five-wicket haul in ODIs.

This came after the game was moved up a day due to poor weather. A rare moment of common sense in Cricket governance.

Seems to be very little consensus on how Alistair should be spelt. It's like reading English before Samuel Johnson's dictionary. People just spell it how they like.

looks to be 3 ex Durham players in that Scotland line up. I think we used to have 3 players in the Ireland set up too, before the new rules