Oman scored 109 in 19.4 overs, where as Namibia scored 109/6 in 20 overs.
Match Tied and Namibia won the Super Over.
Oman’s spirited bowling effort dragged the game against Namibia in Barbados to a Super Over, but that’s as far as they could get.
David Wiese, who picked up three wickets and ensured Oman couldn’t defend their low total, starred in the Super Over alongside his captain Gerhard Erasmus.
Namibia scored 20 runs and defended it to start their T20 World Cup campaign with a dramatic victory.
What happened in the Super Over:
Wiese’s 9 off 8 balls took the teams to a Super Over, where he walked out to bat with Erasmus.
Oman relied on their strike bowler Bilal Khan rather than Mehran Khan, who had brought them to this situation.
Bilal started with a wide yorker that Wiese cut behind point for four.
He then hit a full-toss for a six over long-on before Erasmus wrapped up the 21-run over with two successive fours.
Wiese wasn’t done for the day yet as he came back to defend those runs successfully, even dismissing Naseem Khushi.
His mix of yorkers and changes of pace blunted Oman, who could only score 10 runs.
Oman
Power Play: Trumpelmann rocks Oman early
Phase score: 36/3 [RR: 6.00, 4s/6s: 5/0]
Left-arm quick Ruben Trumpelmann bowled two full, swinging deliveries and got two wickets, trapping opener Kashyap Prajapati and captain Aqib Ilyas leg before on the first two balls of the match.
In his next over, he had the other opener, Naseem Khushi, mistiming a big hit to Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus at mid-off.
No. 4 batter Zeeshan Maqsood hit four fours to push Oman ahead in the remainder of the Power Play.
Middle-overs: Oman struggle to push ahead
Phase score: 42/2 [RR: 4.67, 4s/6s: 1/1]
Oman’s hopes of recovering from the early setback were wrecked by left-arm spinner Bernard Scholtz.
He trapped Maqsood leg before in the seventh over, sending the batter back with a review.
Khalid Kail and Ayaan Khan then attempted a recovery, which lasted until the 12th over before Erasmus dismissed the latter.
Oman got their first six of the innings in this phase, but it was only one of two boundaries they hit in the middle overs.
Death-overs: Oman end with a sub-par total
Phase score: 31/5 [RR: 6.64, 4s/6s: 3/1]
Oman struggled to move forward and were once again dented by the Namibia captain, who trapped Mohammad Nadeem from around the stumps.
Khalid Kail’s attempts to step up at the death were cut short by David Wiese.
Kail hit a big six off a slower ball but was out next, caught and bowled by Wiese.
The fast bowler then trapped Mehran Khan two balls later to leave Oman in tatters.
Trumpelmann returned to pick his fourth wicket and finish with career-best figures of 4 for 21.
Oman’s innings ended on 109 in the final over when Wiese picked his third wicket.
Namibia
Power Play: Measured start to chase
Phase score: 32/1 [RR: 5.34, 4s/6s: 5/0]
Namibia lost Michael van Lingen on the second ball of the chase when he played a ball from Bilal Khan onto his stumps.
The second-wicket pair of Nikolaas Davin and Jan Frylinck made a solid, measured start to shield their side from a collapse like the one Oman had.
The slow surface had something for the spinners, as left-arm spinner Shakeel Ahmed got the ball to turn and bounce.
Middle-overs: Oman stay alive with tight bowling
Phase score: 46/2 [RR: 5.11, 4s/6s: 3/1]
Davin looked to shift gears and hit offspinner Aqib Ilyas for a six over long on.
Ilyas dismissed him off the next ball, which he tossed up and lured Davin into mistiming another big hit.
Ilyas saw merit in using more of his slower bowlers and brought in left-arm spinner Zeeshan Maqsood.
Jan Frylinck and Erasmus combined to make slow progress before Ayaan Khan, another left-arm spinner, broke the stand in the 15th over.
Erasmus decided to take a risk as his team was meandering even in chase of just 110 runs.
It didn’t pay off as he found the fielder at wide long-on.
Namibia’s fate rested in the hands of Frylinck.
Death-overs: Mehran Khan earns Oman a Super Over!
Phase score: 31/3 [RR: 6.2, 4s/6s: 3/1]
Namibia entered the death overs needing 32 off 30 balls, but that equation soon became 14 off 12.
Frylinck led the way, but Oman kept hitting back.
Medium-pacer Mehran Khan dismissed JJ Smit in the 18th over to keep the pressure on the batting side.
David Wiese switched it back onto Oman by hitting a big six off Bilal Khan in the penultimate over.
Bilal managed to nail his yorkers for the rest of the over, leaving five runs for Mehran to defend in the final over.
That began with the dismissal of Frylinck, who was out leg before trying to shuffle across and get runs through fine leg.
Two balls later, Mehran dismissed Zane Green.
When Wiese took strike again, Namibia needed 4 off 2.
That then became 2 off 1 when Mehran beat Wiese’s bat.
However, the keeper, standing up to the stumps, didn’t collect the ball, and the two batters stole a single to take the game into the Super Over.
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