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On Wednesday, February 11, Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus lashed out at the ICC T20 World Cup 2026 organizers for not scheduling their training sessions under floodlights ahead of their group stage clash against the defending champions, India.
Notably, Namibia played a day game in their campaign opener against the Netherlands on Monday. Interestingly, both of their training sessions so far on the following two days were held during the day despite requesting night sessions. On the other hand, Team India trained at night twice in the lead-up to the game.
"Yeah, we haven't been given a night training (session) before this game, I don't know why. I think India has two night training (sessions) and I see outside that Canada will have a night training now, so make of that what you want, but we'll just rock up and do our Namibian way, which is to fight," Erasmus said.
"We haven't got any (flood) lights in Namibia... the day/night games. Infrastructure wise it's probably the challenge for us, so yeah it's not a casual thing for guys that don't have (experience),” he added.
"I think barring the guys who played in the Nepal Premier League and the ILT20 and the World Cups that we've played, you don't really get accustomed to lights and training under it very often," he concluded.
Namibia lost their opening fixture against the Netherlands and will also take on the USA and Pakistan in their remaining group stage fixtures. Both those games are scheduled to start at 3 pm. They will next lock horns against India on Thursday, February 12, in New Delhi.
Namibia squad: Gerhard Erasmus (c), Zane Green, Bernard Scholtz, Ruben Trumpelmann, JJ Smit, Jan Frylinck, Louren Steenkamp, Malan Kruger, Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Jack Brassell, Ben Shikongo, JC Balt, Dylan Leicher, WP Myburgh, Max Heingo. Reserve: Alexander Volschenk.
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