Since their first match in 2003, 15 players have represented Namibia in One Day Internationals (ODIs). A One Day International is an international cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 match between two representative teams, each having ODI status, as determined by the International Cricket Council (ICC). An ODI differs from Test matches

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 in that the number of overs

Over (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....

 per team is limited, and that each team has one innings.

Namibia are associate members of the International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

 (ICC). They do not have One Day International status, so their limited overs games are generally categorized as List A rather than One Day Internationals. Namibia qualified for the 2003 Cricket World Cup

2003 Cricket World Cup

-Group stage tables and results:The top three teams from each pool qualify for the next stage, carrying forward the points already scored against fellow qualifiers, plus a quarter of the points scored against the teams that failed to qualify.-Pool A:...

 by getting to the final of the 2001 ICC Trophy

2001 ICC Trophy

The 2001 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament played in Ontario, Canada in 2001. It was the qualifying tournament for the 2003 Cricket World Cup...

. Because Namibia qualified for the World Cup, they also received $500,000 from the ICC to encourage the development of cricket in the country. At the World Cup, Namibia played in six One Day internationals. The ICC granted ODI status to all matches played at this competition, which Namibia qualified for by reaching the final of the 2001 ICC Trophy

2001 ICC Trophy

The 2001 ICC Trophy was a cricket tournament played in Ontario, Canada in 2001. It was the qualifying tournament for the 2003 Cricket World Cup...

. Namibia were defeated in each of their six matches; their best result came in a 55 run loss to England. These are the only ODI matches Namibia have played. After finishing 7th at the 2005 ICC Trophy

2005 ICC Trophy

Ireland beat Bermuda easily as Ed Joyce made 103 for the hosts in Stormont.----Denmark beat Uganda by 28 runs as Thomas Munkholt Hansen took 6 for 30 to carry Denmark to a 28-run win over Uganda in Muckamore. Denmark made 197 with Henrik Saxe Hansen making 71...

, Namibia failed to qualify for the 2007 World Cup

2007 Cricket World Cup

The 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup was the ninth edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament that took place in the West Indies from 13 March to 28 April 2007, using the sport's One Day International format...

 and were denied the chance to play further ODI matches.

Jan-Berrie Burger

Jan-Berrie Burger

Andries Johannes Burger, more often known as Jan-Berry Burger , is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler, who occasionally takes up the position of wicket-keeper.He represented Namibia in the 2003 Cricket World Cup...

 has scored the most ODI runs for Namibia (199) and also holds the record for the highest individual score for Namibia, 85 scored against England on 19 February 2003. He is one of two people to have scored a half-century for Namibia, the other person is Daniel Keulder. Rudi van Vuuren

Rudi van Vuuren

Dr Rudolph Jansen van Vuuren is a Physician by trade, former Namibian sportsman and committed conservationist....

 has taken the most wickets for Namibian with 8 to his name, and holds the record for best bowling figures for Namibia in an ODI. He took 5/43 against England on 19 February 2003.

Players

Statistics are correct to the end of 2008. List is arranged in the order in which each player won his first ODI cap. Where more than one player won his first cap in the same match, those players are listed alphabetically by surname.

Key
General

*: an innings that ended not out

Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

Mat: number of matches played

Batting

Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket. A player who is currently batting is denoted as a batsman, while the act of hitting the ball is called a shot or stroke...

Inn: number of innings

Innings

An inning, or innings, is a fixed-length segment of a game in any of a variety of sports – most notably cricket and baseball during which one team attempts to score while the other team attempts to prevent the first from scoring. In cricket, the term innings is both singular and plural and is...

NO: number of times an innings ends not out

Not out

In cricket, a batsman will be not out if he comes out to bat in an innings and has not been dismissed by the end of the innings. One may similarly describe a batsman as not out while the innings is still in progress...

Runs: number of runs

Run (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a run is the basic unit of scoring. Runs are scored by a batsman, and the aggregate of the scores of a team's batsmen constitutes the team's score. A batsman scoring 50 or 100 runs , or any higher multiple of 50 runs, is considered a particular achievement...

 scored by batsman/off bowler's bowling

HS: highest score

Avg: batting average

Batting average

Batting average is a statistic in both cricket and baseball that measures the performance of cricket batsmen and baseball hitters. The two statistics are related in that baseball averages are directly descended from the concept of cricket averages.- Cricket :...

100/50: number of centuries

Century (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...

 and half-centuries scored

Bowling

Bowling (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, bowling is the action of propelling the ball toward the wicket defended by a batsman. A player skilled at bowling is called a bowler; a bowler who is also a competent batsman is known as an all-rounder...

Overs: number of overs

Over (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, an over is a set of six consecutive balls bowled in succession. An over is normally bowled by a single bowler. However, in the event of injury preventing a bowler from completing an over, it is completed by a teammate....

 bowled

Mdn: number of maiden overs (overs off which no runs were scored)

Wkt: number of wicket

Wicket

In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:-Definitions of wicket:Most of the time, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch...

s taken

BB: best bowling figures

Avg: bowling average

Bowling average

Bowling average is a statistic measuring the performance of bowlers in the sport of cricket.A bowler's bowling average is defined as the total number of runs conceded by the bowlers divided by the number of wickets taken by the bowler, so the lower the average the better. It is similar to earned...

5wI: number of times 5 wickets were taken in an innings

Fielding

Fielding (cricket)

Fielding in the sport of cricket is the action of fielders in collecting the ball after it is struck by the batsman, in such a way as to either limit the number of runs that the batsman scores or get the batsman out by catching the ball in flight or running the batsman out.Cricket fielding position...

Ca: number of catches taken

St: number of stumpings

Stump (cricket)

Stump is a term used in the sport of cricket where it has three different meanings:# part of the wicket# a manner of dismissing a batsman# the end of the day's play .-Part of the wicket:...

 made

Cap	Name	Career	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	100/50	Overs	Mdn	Runs	Wkt	BB	Avg	5wI	Ca	St	Ref
1	Jan-Berrie Burger Jan-Berrie Burger Andries Johannes Burger, more often known as Jan-Berry Burger , is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler, who occasionally takes up the position of wicket-keeper.He represented Namibia in the 2003 Cricket World Cup...	2003	6	6	0	199	85	33.16	0/1	16	0	104	3	1/18	34.66	0	0	0
2	Louis Burger Louis Burger Louis Jacobus Burger is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler....	2003	6	6	1	11	5	2.20	0/0	55	3	297	6	3/39	49.50	0	6	0
3	Morne Karg Morne Karg Morne Karg is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper.He has appeared in the ICC Trophy since 1994 and in List A cricket between 2001 and 2003...	2003	3	2	0	45	41	22.50	0/0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	0	1	0
4	Daniel Keulder	2003	6	6	0	132	52	22.00	0/1	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	0	3	0
5	Bjorn Kotze Bjorn Kotze Bjorn Leo Kotze is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler.He has appeared in the ICC Trophy since 1997 and made five One Day International appearances in the World Cup in 2003....	2003	5	4	1	27	24*	9.00	0/0	43	2	276	3	2/51	92.00	0	1	0
6	Deon Kotze Deon Kotze Deon Bosman Kotze is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler....	2003	6	6	1	82	27	16.40	0/0	47	0	256	2	1/32	128.00	0	3	0
7	Lennie Louw Lennie Louw Jan Leonardus Louw is a South African-born Namibian cricketer.Louw made his One Day International debut for Namibia in the World Cup in 2003 at the age of 43, having spent the previous 27 years playing first-class cricket in South Africa...	2003	1	0	0	0	n/a	n/a	0	10	0	60	1	1/60	60.00	0	1	0
8	Bryan Murgatroyd Bryan Murgatroyd Gavin Bryan Murgatroyd is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman.He played in the ICC Trophy between 1994 and 2001 and generally occupied the upper-middle order...	2003	6	6	0	90	52	15.00	0/0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	0	0	0
9	Gerrie Snyman Gerrie Snyman Gerrie Snyman is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He played five One Day Internationals in the Cricket World Cup in 2003, and also played in the 2005 ICC Trophy...	2003	5	4	0	5	5	1.25	0/0	48	0	281	6	3/69	46.83	0	0	0
10	Stephan Swanepoel Stephan Swanepoel Stephan Jacobus Swanepoel is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper....	2003	5	5	0	43	23	8.60	0/0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	0	0	0
11	Riaan Walters Riaan Walters Riaan Walters is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman, who often plays as the opening batsman in the Namibian attack....	2003	2	2	0	0	0	0.00	0/0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	0	0	0
12	Melt van Schoor Melt van Schoor Melt van Schoor is a South Africa-born Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper. He played in the ICC Trophy between 1994 and 2001, and has played List A cricket since then. He also played five One Day Internationals in the World Cup in 2003...	2003	5	5	1	58	24	14.50	0/0	0	0	0	0	0	n/a	0	4	0
13	Rudi van Vuuren Rudi van Vuuren Dr Rudolph Jansen van Vuuren is a Physician by trade, former Namibian sportsman and committed conservationist....	2003	5	5	2	26	14	8.66	0/0	50	5	298	8	5/43	37.25	0	0	0
14	Sarel Burger Sarel Burger Sarel Francois Burger is a Namibian cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler....	2003	2	2	0	11	6	5.50	0/0	66	0	67	0	0	n/a	0	1	0
15	Burton van Rooi	2003	3	3	2	26	17	26.00	0/0	20	0	119	1	1/24	119.00	0	0	0

Captains

Player	Dates of captaincy	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	No result
Deon Kotze	2003	6	0	6	0	0	0.00
Total	2003	6	0	6	0	0	0.00

External links

• Searchable database of International Cricketers (filtered by country) (Howstat)
• List of Namibia ODI Caps and debuts (Cricinfo)