{"id":10375,"date":"2026-01-08T01:55:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10375\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T01:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:55:38","slug":"t20-world-cup-2026-gerhard-erasmus-to-lead-young-looking-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/10375\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2026 &#8211; Gerhard Erasmus to lead young-looking Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/jack-brassell-1310415\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Brassell<\/a> is just 20, has played nine ODIs and 18 T20Is, and will be leading the fast-bowling attack with the relatively more experienced 25-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ben-shikongo-1069820\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Shikongo<\/a>, who has played 23 ODIs and 40 T20Is and was one of the stars of Namibia&#8217;s win over Tanzania in the qualifying match that put them in the T20 World Cup.Bowling alongside them could be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/max-heingo-1495161\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Heingo<\/a>, who made his international debut in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/south-africa-in-namibia-2025-26-1487816\/namibia-vs-south-africa-only-t20i-1487824\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Namibia&#8217;s historic T20I win<\/a> over South Africa in October, where he picked up 2 for 32, sending back Lhuan-dre Pretorius and Donovan Ferreira.The squad also has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/louren-steenkamp-596087\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Louren Steenkamp<\/a>, the 28-year-old top-order batter who has turned out in seven T20Is and has a strike rate of 126.85; 22-year-old middle-order batter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/jan-balt-1178066\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Balt<\/a>, just three ODIs and six T20Is old; 21-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/dylan-leicher-1256933\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Leicher<\/a>, another middle-order batter with five ODIs and 14 T20Is behind him; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/willem-myburgh-695271\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Willem Myburgh<\/a>, the 25-year-old allrounder who has played just the solitary ODI so far. The lone travelling reserve is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/alexander-busing-volschenk-1234278\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Busing-Volschenk<\/a>, the 20-year-old allrounder who has played five T20Is.The big news for Namibia in the lead-up to the World Cup was the appointment of Kirsten. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/t20-world-cup-2026-namibia-unveil-gary-kirsten-as-national-mens-team-consultant-1514750\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kirsten was unveiled<\/a> as a consultant with the men&#8217;s national teams on December 7 last year, and said at the time that he hoped to &#8220;add value to their preparation for the T20 World Cup in February next year&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia are grouped with hosts India, Netherlands, Pakistan and USA at the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Namibia squad for the men&#8217;s T20 World Cup<br \/>\nGerhard Erasmus (capt), Zane Green (wk), Bernard Scholtz, Ruben Trumpelmann, JJ Smit, Jan Frylinck, Louren Steenkamp, Malan Kruger, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Jack Brassell, Ben Shikongo, Jan Balt, Dylan Leicher, Willem Myburgh, Max Heingo, Alexander Busing-Volschenk (travelling reserve)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Brassell is just 20, has played nine ODIs and 18 T20Is, and will be leading the fast-bowling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1026,2797,2795,84,102,96,2796],"class_list":{"0":"post-10375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-bulletin","9":"tag-cricket","10":"tag-daily","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-namibia","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-package"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}