Desert Vipers
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| ICC status | Associate (1992) |
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| ICC region | ICC Africa |
| WCL | WCL Championship |
| Coach | Dee Thakur |
| Captain | Stephen Baard |
| First international | |
 Namibia v. Botswana  (Gaborone; November 1989) |
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| First-class debut | |
 Namibia v. Uganda  (Windhoek; 23 April 2004) |
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| List A debut | |
Namibia v. Sri Lanka A  (Windhoek; 7 April 2002) |
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| Twenty20 debut | |
Namibia v. Southern Rocks  (Harare, Zimbabwe; 13 February 2010) |
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| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 1 (first in 2003) |
| Best result | First round (2003) |
| World Cup Qualifier | |
| Appearances | 6 (first in 1994) |
| Best result | Runner-up (2001) |
| World Twenty20 Qualifier | |
| Appearances | 3 (first in 2012) |
| Best result | Third place (2012) |
| As of 13 September 2015 | |
The Namibia cricket team is the team that represents the country of Namibia in international cricket matches. It is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1992, and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007. They took part in the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa, though they lost all their games. They have played in each edition of the ICC Intercontinental Cup.
The road to the 2003 Cricket World Cup started with the 2001 ICC Trophy in Canada. Namibia reached the final at the Toronto Cricket, Skating and Curling Club, losing to the Netherlands, but still qualifying for their first World Cup. Namibia then hosted the ICC 6 Nations Challenge in April 2002, finishing fourth. They had a disappointing Africa Cup campaign that September, finishing fourth in their group and beating only Tanzania, and lost four matches against Zimbabwe A a few weeks later. A tour of Kenya subsequent to the Zimbabwean tour was more successful, as Namibia beat Kenya in a four match one-day series. Following this, Namibia took part in the top level of South African domestic one-day cricket, the Standard Bank Cup, but lost all five of their games. Bangladesh toured in January 2003, winning the five match one-day series 4–1.
The World Cup itself started on 10 February 2003 in Harare with Zimbabwe beating Namibia by 86 runs. Back in South Africa, they lost to Pakistan by 171 runs, before a 55 run defeat at the hands of England in which Namibia performed with some credit, Jan-Berrie Burger winning the man of the match award for his innings of 85 that almost helped Namibia pull off an unlikely upset. They then lost by 181 runs to India and a 256 run defeat against Australia, the eventual winners of the tournament, in what at the time was the biggest winning margin in One Day Internationals, since surpassed by an Indian 257 run win over Bermuda. The tournament finished with a 64 run loss to fellow qualifiers the Netherlands.
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