Namibia vs New Zealand Scorecard, Match 36, ICC T20 World Cup 2021

This will be the first men’s T20I between New Zealand and Namibia; the Black Caps have won each of their previous four matches in the format against non-Test playing nations.

This will be Namibia’s sixth men’s T20I against a Test-playing country; they have won only one of their previous five such fixtures (L4) – an eight-wicket win over Ireland earlier in this ICC Men’s T20 World Cup campaign.

New Zealand have won each of their last two ICC Men’s T20 World Cup matches; the last and only time the Black Caps enjoyed a longer winning run in the tournament was a four-match span in March 2016.

Namibia have lost each of their last two men’s T20Is, after losing only one of their 10 games prior (W9) – they will be looking to avoid three consecutive defeats in the format for the first time.

New Zealand have had a batting good connection percentage above 70% in each of their last two men’s T20I batting innings, as many times as they did so in their seven innings prior.

Namibia have had a 100% catch success rate in each of their last two matches at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, after doing so only once in their first four fielding innings at the tournament.

Martin Guptill (New Zealand) is 24 away from becoming the second all-time leading run scorer for the Black Caps at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (Ross Taylor – 562); indeed, Guptill’s 130 runs at the 2021 edition so far is 10 away from his personal best in a single tournament (140 in 2016).

David Wiese (Namibia) has a batting average of 61.7 at this ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, the best of any player from a non-Test playing country to log an average so far in the campaign.

Tim Southee (New Zealand) is four away from becoming the second all-time leading wicket taker for the Black Caps at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (Daniel Vettori – 20); Southee has taken at least one wicket in each of his last seven T20I bowling innings – only in his first eight innings in the format (February 2008 to November 2009) has he done so in more consecutively.

Ruben Trumpelmann (Namibia) has bowled 63 dot balls at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2021, the second most by any player from a non-Test playing country (Mark Watt – 64 for Scotland).