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Namibia players celebrate a dismissal during their one-off T20I against South Africa at the Namibia Cricket Ground in Windhoek on October 11, 2025. \u2014 Cricket Namibia<\/p>\n
WINDHOEK: Cricket Namibia on Saturday announced its 15-member squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, scheduled to be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka from February 7 to March 8.<\/p>\n
Experienced all-rounder Gerhard Erasmus will continue to lead the Eagles, who will be making their fourth T20 World Cup appearance in the upcoming 10th edition.<\/p>\n
Namibia retained the majority of their players, who represented them in the previous edition of the mega event in 2024, while Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Louren Steenkamp, JC Balt, WP Myburgh and Max Heingo are set to add fresh depth to their quest.<\/p>\n
The African nation booked their spot in the 20-team tournament on the back of a dominant ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 Africa Qualifier in Harare, during which they topped Group A by remaining unbeaten.<\/p>\n
They backed their dominant group-stage run with an equally impressive showing in the semi-final against Tanzania, winning the high-stakes fixture by 63 runs.<\/p>\n
Namibia, slotted in Group A, will start their T20 World Cup 2026 campaign against Netherlands on February 10 in Delhi before taking on co-host India at the same venue on February 12, followed by the United States of America (USA) in Chennai on February 15.<\/p>\n
They will then travel to Sri Lanka to play their last league-stage fixture against Pakistan, scheduled to be held on February 18.<\/p>\n
Namibia squad for T20 World Cup 2026: Gerhard Erasmus (c), Zane Green, Bernard Scholtz, Ruben Trumpelmann, JJ Smit, Jan Frylinck, Louren Steenkamp, Malan Kruger, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Jack Brassell, Ben Shikongo, JC Balt, Dylan Leicher, WP Myburgh and Max Heingo. <\/p>\n
Travelling reserve: Alexander Volschenk.<\/p>\n
Namibia’s group-stage fixtures:<\/p>\n
February 10: vs Netherlands, DelhiFebruary 12: vs India, DelhiFebruary 15: vs USA, ChennaiFebruary 18: vs Pakistan, Colombo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Namibia players celebrate a dismissal during their one-off T20I against South Africa at the Namibia Cricket Ground in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[427,195,102,429,1231,1232],"class_list":{"0":"post-988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-gerhard-erasmus","9":"tag-icc","10":"tag-namibia","11":"tag-namibia-squad","12":"tag-t20-world-cup","13":"tag-t20-world-cup-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}