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With five wins from five games, Namibia confirm their berth at men’s T20 World Cup

Namibia defeated Tanzania by 58 runs to qualify for the men’s T20 World Cup 2024. It was Namibia’s fifth win on the trot that assured them a top-two finish on the Africa region qualifiers points table. This will be the third edition in a row that Namibia will be playing in the Men’s T20 World Cup. In 2021, they managed to make it to Super 12 after finishing second in the group stage but failed to do so last year. “We’re very proud of the boys, of Pierre de Bruyn and his coaching team and also Gerhard Erasmus, the captain of the team,” Rudie van Vuuren, president of Cricket Namibia, told BBC Sport Africa. “The boys played professional cricket throughout, really a high standard of cricket. “And you can see the fact that we have a professional set-up eventually makes the difference in thi...