T20 World Cup

Sri Lanka vs Namibia LIVE Score, T20 World Cup 2022: Catch the live score updates, match stats and highlights from the SL vs NAM first-round match in T20 WC ...

The ball clips the top-edge and flies to the third-man field. It’s a little bit slower and something in the air. The unknown factor of exactly how the wicket will play and a bit of over head conditions. It’s a first game, we’d like to have a look at the wicket. Shanaka leads the talks in the Sri Lanka huddle before they take the field. He does some late shuffling to ensure the ball doesn’t get through to the stumps and instead lobs over it for a couple of runs. Madushan keeps it tight around the stumps and the batters rotate strike with three singles. A cracking pick-up shot as Chameera strays to the pads. Erasmus and Baard experiment with their shots against Theekshana and gathers three twos in the over. Short from Hasaranga and Erasmus falls to his backfoot but fails to power it past the deep mid-wicket fielder. Namibia moves past 100 and Fylinck would hope to stay till the end to lead his side towards a respectable total. Namibia reviews and loses it as the replays flicker three reds.

Who are the favourites? What is the format? How can I follow? BBC Sport previews the Men's T20 World Cup which begins on Sunday.

As both hosts and defending champions, Aaron Finch's Australia remain favourites with many bookmakers, despite the loss to England. England fast bowlers Tymal Mills and Mark Wood will present a new series of the Good Pace for Radio podcast from within the England camp while there will also be regular Test Match Special podcasts from the team in Australia. There will be commentary of every match of the World Cup on BBC Radio Sports Extra and BBC Sounds plus extensive coverage across the BBC Sport website and app. England have recalled Test captain Ben Stokes to aid their bid for a second T20 world title while some of the other biggest names in the sport - India's Virat Kohli, Pakistan's Babar Azam and Australia's David Warner - will all be key. Pakistan and South Africa will also fancy their chances, while Sri Lanka have to come through the preliminary stage but last month beat both India and Pakistan to win the Asia Cup. The teams in each group plays each other once with the top two progressing to the semi-finals before the final at the famous Melbourne Cricket Ground on 13 November.

The most awaited Cricket T20 World Cup 2022 will have a grand opening ceremony on Sunday, at the magnificent Australian grounds. The ceremony which is ...

Namibia caused a major upset in the opening match of the T20 World Cup when they hammered newly-crowned Asia Cup champions Sri Lanka by 55 runs on Sunday.

Former England captain Nasser Hussain opined that the ICC Men's T20 World Cup, starting from Sunday in Australia, will give fans chances to see hard-fought ...

[Dailymotion ](https://www.dailymotion.com/DeccanHerald) [Facebook ](https://www.facebook.com/deccanherald/) [Twitter ](https://twitter.com/DeccanHerald) The chance of the men's team replicating that, and going back-to-back themselves, has the whole country buzzing," she said. The conditions on offer here will make for some entertaining cricket and I'm expecting to see a lot of closely fought contests." "The ICC Men's T20 World Cup is a great tournament with the world's best talent on view.

Captain Gerhard Erasmus says the experience of the last T20 World Cup gave them an idea of the skills required at this level.

The speed of the ball is more, the quality of the skills and the percentage of execution that guys are playing at is higher. It's only the start of the tournament and we really need to have our eye on qualifying for the Super 12s, which is the main goal for me." "The experiences we had from last year's World Cup really gave us a good idea of what type of skill we need to have to be able to compete at this high level. It's only the first match of three and Namibia can ill afford to take their victory for granted, even though they are going to celebrate it for everything it is worth. The Namibian quicks stuck to a hard length and an off-stump line to force a Sri Lankan collapse that will be talked about for ages. [Morne Morkel](http://www.espncricinfo.com/player/morne-morkel-46538), the brother of their assistant coach Albie and someone who knows more about the short ball than most. [Uganda and Zimbabwe](https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/team/match_results.html?class=3;id=2022;team=28;type=year). We just went onto the field on an equal footing to the Sri Lankan side." "We've seen it, we've tasted it and we've sort of closed that gap by becoming one step closer to them and getting the physical feel of what it's like. That gave us the belief this time around." They lost to Afghanistan, Pakistan and New Zealand by margins of 45 runs or more and to India by nine wickets, and lessons were learned. [bowled Namibia out for 96](https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-men-s-t20-world-cup-2021-22-1267897/namibia-vs-sri-lanka-4th-match-first-round-group-a-1273715/full-scorecard)in their T20 World Cup opener and won by seven wickets.