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Sports / Mon, 03 Jun 2024 ICC Cricket

Namibia hold nerve to win Super Over thriller against Oman

Disciplined spin bowling from Aqib and Zeeshan Maqsood put brakes on Namibia's scoring rate in the middle overs. For his part, Namibia skipper Gerhard Erasmus tried to keep the scoring rate closer to run a ball along with Frylinck. The game of nerves saw Oman drop crucial catches but eventually, Maqsood held one off Ayaan Khan to dismiss Erasmus (13) in the 15th over. A superb 18th over from Mehran Khan gave away just four byes and picked JJ Smit's wicket. Mehran gave merely seven runs for three wickets in his three overs.

Disciplined spin bowling from Aqib and Zeeshan Maqsood put brakes on Namibia's scoring rate in the middle overs. For his part, Namibia skipper Gerhard Erasmus tried to keep the scoring rate closer to run a ball along with Frylinck. The game of nerves saw Oman drop crucial catches but eventually, Maqsood held one off Ayaan Khan to dismiss Erasmus (13) in the 15th over.

The set Frylinck took initiative at this stage and hit a flurry of boundaries to bring the asking rate at par with three overs remaining. A superb 18th over from Mehran Khan gave away just four byes and picked JJ Smit's wicket. A six from David Wiese in the 19th over, helped bring the equation to five off the final over.

Mehran who had given just four runs off two overs thus far brought up his wickets tally up from one to three in the first three balls of the final over, bowling Frylinck and trapping Zane Green (0) lbw. The equation eventually came to two off one with the aggressive Wiese up against the wily Mehran. Wiese couldn't connect but the wicket-keeper fumbled the ball, and the batters stole a bye. The game went into a Super Over. Mehran gave merely seven runs for three wickets in his three overs.

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