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Namibia vs United States Scorecard, Match 26, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 15 2026, Sun - 03:00 PM (IST)
UNITED STATES199/4
NAMIBIA168/6
United States won by 31 runs
CRR:8.4
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Feb 15 2026, Sun - 03:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | India |
| City: | Chennai |
| Venue: | M.A. Chidambaram Stadium |
| Toss: | United States won the toss and elected to bat. |
| United States Playing XI: | Monank Patel (c), Shayan Jahangir (wk), Saiteja Mukkamalla, Milind Kumar, Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Shubham Ranjane, Harmeet Singh, Mohammad Mohsin, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Saurabh Netravalkar, Ali Khan |
| Namibia Playing XI: | Jan Frylinck, Louren Steenkamp, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Gerhard Erasmus (c), JJ Smit, Zane Green (wk), Dylan Leicher, Ruben Trumpelmann, WP Myburgh, Bernard Scholtz, Max Heingo |
- This will be the third meeting between the USA and Namibia in men’s T20Is after the teams met twice in a tri-series with the United Arab Emirates in October 2024; USA won both of their previous meetings.
- The USA have met with an African nation at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup only once before in the form of an 18-run loss to South Africa at the 2024 tournament, while they’ve won two of four matches against teams from Africa in the format overall.
- The USA have won nine of their last 10 men’s T20Is against fellow associate member nations, including their last three in a row, while they have also won both of their two previous meetings with associate members at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup (def. Netherlands by 93 runs in 2026, def. Canada by 7 wickets in 2024).
- Namibia have lost their last two men’s T20Is after losing only one of their previous seven matches in the format (W6) and they haven’t lost more than two consecutive matches since a seven-loss stretch to finish 2024.
- The USA have never scored fewer than 110 runs in an ICC Men’s T20 World Cup innings from their nine previous matches; among all teams, only Italy (124) have maintained a higher minimum innings total than the Stars and Stripes at the tournament.
- Namibia have been hit for six 23 times through their first two matches at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, the most of any team after their first two matches; they had conceded just eight sixes across their five previous bowling innings in the format overall.
- The USA have scored at a rate of at least eight runs per over in half of their eight men’s T20Is in Asia, including a rate of 9.8 against the Netherlands last time out, while they’ve scored at least 180 runs in each of their last three matches when they’ve batted first on the day.
- Saiteja Mukkamalla (USA) has scored 50+ runs in three of his last six T20I innings, including a knock of 79 runs from 51 balls against the Netherlands in his last innings; in fact, his career batting average of 42.4 is the best of any USA player (min. 4 innings) and the 10th best of any player in the history of the men’s format (min. 20 innings).
- Monank Patel (959) is 41 runs away from becoming the first player to score 1,000 T20I runs for USA and has scored 70+ runs in four of his last eight innings in the format; in fact, he had a batting average of 73 from six innings in 2025, the best average of any USA player in a calendar year in the format.
- Gerhard Erasmus (Namibia) logged bowling figures of 4/20 against India in Namibia’s last match at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, his best figures in the format and the best figures of any Namibia player at the tournament; in fact, he’s the only Namibia bowler with a bowling average below 20 at the tournament (18.6).
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