Sri Lanka Vs Namibia T20 World Cup 2022 Preview, Match Details, Probable XI and Fantasy Team

SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview: Asia Cup 2022 winning team Sri Lanka will take on the newbies Namibia in their first match of the T20 World Cup 2022 in Australia. Sri Lanka is a strong favourite to win this first game of this ICC Mega event down under especially after they did so well in the Asia Cup T20 competition.
Sri Lanka Vs Namibia T20 World Cup 2022 Preview
Sri Lanka Vs Namibia T20 World Cup 2022 Preview

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SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview: Match Details 

SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview
SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview

Match – T20 World Cup 2022 – Sri Lanka Vs Namibia 

Date – Sunday, 16th October 2022

Venue – Simonds Stadium in Geelong 

Match Time – 9.30 PM IST, 4 AM GMT and 3 PM Local Time 

Toss Time – 9 PM IST, 3.30 AM GMT and 2.30 PM Local Time

TV Channels – Star Sports India Networks 

Live Streaming – Disney+ Hotstar 

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SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview: Team Sri Lanka’s Likely Playing XI

Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Dushmantha Chameera, Dilshan Madhushanka. 

T20 World Cup will start tomorrow with the match between Sri Lanka and Namibia. Sri Lanka is the current champions of the Asia Cup T20.

They played the first match of that tournament and ended on the losing side. But still, they went on to win the Asia Cup title. Now to qualify for the super 12s, the Lankan Tigers need to bamboozle the Namibians. 

Sri Lanka is the champion of the 2014 edition, which was played in Bangladesh under the captaincy of Lasith Malinga.

Sri Lankan player Lasith Malinga
Sri Lankan player Lasith MalingaImage Credit: Getty Images

Dasun Shanaka has been a good captain for Sri Lanka. He turned things around after Sri Lanka lost their first match of the Asia Cup 2022. They also defeated India in the super 4 round and Pakistan in the finals. 

Like always, their all-rounders like Wanindu Hasaranga, and Dasun Shanaka alongside, Maheesh Theekshana will be their wild cards for this game. The batters will highly on confident after what has happened in the Asia Cup 2022.

Dasun Shanaka has been a good captain for Sri Lanka
Dasun Shanaka has been a good captain for Sri LankaImage Credit: Reuters

Bhanuka Rajpaksa and Charith Asalanka hold the key in the middle overs. While Karunaratne and Chameera are the experienced players in their squad, which help them to start the tournament with a win. 

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SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview: Likely Playing XI of Namibia

Stephan Baard, Lo-handre Louwrens, Gerhard Erasmus, Divan la Cock, JJ Smit, David Wiese, Zane Green, Ruben Trumpelmann, Bernard Scholtz, Michael van Lingen, Ben Shikongo.

Namibians will face a tough challenge to face Lankan Tigers. But what they can do is certainly put up a fight in front of these T20I giants.

Namibia team captain Gerhard Erasmus
Namibia team captain Gerhard ErasmusImage Credit: GettyImages

Namibia needs to play spin bowling well as Hasaranga and Theekshana are wonderful spinners who can pick wickets at regular intervals. They shouldn’t gift their wickets away to them.  

That will help them to score against the pacers, especially in the powerplay overs and backend overs. While bowling the pacers need to strike early when Kusal Mendis and Pathum Nissanka open the innings for Sri Lanka.

Namibians also need to bowl well in the death overs because from the powerplay overs and last few overs, the Lankan batters can take the game away from them. 

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SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview: Pitch Report 

Simonds Stadium in Geelong
Simonds Stadium in Geelong Image Credit: Wikipedia

The pitch in Geelong is tailor-made for the batters and they can score runs quite freely. Win the toss and set a huge score on the board. 

SL Vs NAM T20 World Cup Match Preview: Fantasy Eleven 

Batters – Dasun Shanaka, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, and Stephan Baard

Bowlers – Dushmantha Chameera, Maheesh Theekshana and JJ Smit

All-rounders – Wanindu Hasaranga and David Wiese 

Wicket-keeper – Kusal Mendis 

Vice-captain – Zane Green 

Captain – Pathum Nissanka

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