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After restricting Namibia to 156 for 8, Bas de Leede steered the Netherlands home with twelve balls to spare. De Leede remained unbeaten on 72 off 48 balls.De Leede got ample support from Colin Ackermann, who scored 32 off 28 balls, and opener Michael Levitt, who made 28 off 15 balls. His 70-run stand with Ackermann for the third wicket proved to be a game-changing partnership.Meanwhile, Namibia, who had taken their cue from the Netherlands, also started their spin attack and found immediate success when Max O’Dowd was caught by the Namibian skipper off the orthodox Bernard Scholtz’s left-arm quick delivery behind length in the third innings.Left-arm pacer Ruben Trumpelmann removed Michael Levitt with the third ball in the sixth over, but the 22-year-old batsman did enough damage with his 15-ball, 28-run innings as the Dutch finished the power play at 50 for 2.Ackermann was dropped in 13th place by Steenkamp in the 10th over. The Netherlands still needed 80 runs in the last half of their innings and Ackermann’s wicket would have put them under pressure, but Steenkamp failed to maintain a regular catch at deep square leg.After being put into bat, Namibia got off to a slow start. Louren Steenkamp and Jan Frylinck opened the innings as Netherlands started with off-spinner Aryan Dutt. The lanky spinner left Steenkamp stranded at mid-off when the right-handed batsman was stumped by Dutch skipper Scott Edwards in the third over.The Dutch bowlers took full advantage of the conditions and bowled four overs in the powerplay as the Namibia Eagles could only score 40 runs in the first six overs, hitting just three boundaries and four sixes.Jan Frylinck’s innings never got going and ended unceremoniously when he was caught by Edwards off the bowling of Logan van Beek as Namibia were left at 65 for 2 after 10 overs.It was only after captain Gerhard Erasmus joined left-armer Jan Nicola Loftie-Eaton in the middle that Namibia’s run rate picked up as they scored 29 runs in the next two overs to take their total to 94 for 2 in the 12th over.However, Erasmus, who scored 18 off 9 balls, was caught at midwicket in the 13th over. Loftie-Eaton, who made 42 off 38 balls, followed soon after and Namibia were reduced to 107 for 4 in the 15th over.Namibia were without the batting prowess of Ruben Trumpelmann in the last few balls of their innings as a poor call by Dylan Leicher saw Trumpelmann run out for 9.
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Namibia finished at 156 for 8 in 20 overs, helped in part by some ordinary captaincy from Scott Edwards as none of the four successful Dutch bowlers completed their full quota. Aryan Dutt took one wicket, conceding just 13 runs in his three overs, while Logan van Beek and Bas de Leede took two wickets each.Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton was Namibia’s top scorer with 42, while opener Jan Frylinck scored 30 off 26 balls.A brief scoreNamibia: 156/8 in 20 overs (Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton 42, Jan Frylinck 30; Logan van Beek 2/13, Bas de Leede 2/20).Netherlands: 159/3 in 18 overs (Bas de Leede 72 not out, Colin Ackermann 32).