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After his side's 55-run win against Sri Lanka in their Group A match of ICC T20 World Cup 2022, Namibia skipper Gerhard Erasmus said that the day is extremely historic for them and the side wants to qualify for the Super 12 stage of the tournament.
Some big hitting from Jan Frylinck (44) and JJ Smit (31 n.o.) helped minnows Namibia overcome a shaky start to register 163/7 and that proved too much for Sri Lanka as the Asia Cup champions were all out for 108 in reply.
Bernard Scholtz (2/18), David Wiese (2/16), Ben Shikongo (2/22) and Player of the Match Frylinck (2/26) all picked up two wickets apiece as Sri Lanka's world class batting line-up failed to fire on the big stage.
All-rounder Jan Frylinck was man-of-the-match.
“I’m a little bit speechless at the moment, what we’ve just achieved is above what we thought we could do,” said Frylinck.
“Now I’m just very excited at this point in time.”
“Myself and JJ (Smit) got us to a competitive total and the bowlers just stepped up and it was unbelievable.”