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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>CRICKET Namibia is on the move and after receiving national and international recognition, big things lie in store for the sport code over the next few years.<\/p>\n

At a press conference on Saturday to celebrate CN’s two awards at the recent Namibia Sport Awards (they won the Federation of the Year and Development Programme of the Year awards), Cricket Namibia CEO Johan Muller announced several new projects and international events that will be coming up over the next few years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also here to celebrate the announcements by the International Cricket Council (ICC) that Namibia will co-host two world cups – the ICC u19 Men’s World Cup in 2026 and the ICC Men’s World Cup in 2027. A world cup event is not just there for Cricket Namibia, it’s there for the whole country – it circulates revenue and the total economic impact will be massive and the opportunities to promote the country will be enormous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to host these events, we need infrastructure and that is what we are glad to announce today, that after two years of a battle with the City of Windhoek, we finally got the council to approve new land where we can build our own international cricket facility,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently we are renting facilities from clubs and this year we had 43 international matches in Namibia this year, so now once we have built that we will be able to host it on an international ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started with the engineers on site this week, and they will start with the roll-out of the facility in January. The pitches and grass will be planted by April and in the meantime we are going to start with the planning and development phase of the buildings. We want to play cricket at that facility in August next year, so it’s exciting times for us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Muller said that Namibia’s men are currently ranked 14th in the world in both the T20 and 50-over formats, while the women are ranked 18th in the world. He said that to maintain these levels it was important to plough back and to develop the sport further, and in this regard highlighted their developmental efforts at Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay, where a world-class indoor training facility had been built.<\/p>\n

\u201cKuisebmond is a celebration for us – it produces almost 80 percent of our national women’s players, but their facility was underdeveloped for a number of years, so we decided to put our resources into the development of it and now the nets they have there are probably some of the best net facilities in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe academy centre is in the middle of the Kuisebmond, which now gives walking distance access to all of our girls and boys programmes. Now we can produce excellence, because we don’t just want to compete, we want to excel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

At a press conference on Saturday to celebrate CN’s two awards at the recent Namibia Sport Awards (they won the Federation of the Year and Development Programme of the Year awards), Cricket Namibia CEO Johan Muller announced several new projects and international events that will be coming up over the next few years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are also here to celebrate the announcements by the International Cricket Council (ICC) that Namibia will co-host two world cups – the ICC u19 Men’s World Cup in 2026 and the ICC Men’s World Cup in 2027. A world cup event is not just there for Cricket Namibia, it’s there for the whole country – it circulates revenue and the total economic impact will be massive and the opportunities to promote the country will be enormous,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut to host these events, we need infrastructure and that is what we are glad to announce today, that after two years of a battle with the City of Windhoek, we finally got the council to approve new land where we can build our own international cricket facility,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cCurrently we are renting facilities from clubs and this year we had 43 international matches in Namibia this year, so now once we have built that we will be able to host it on an international ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started with the engineers on site this week, and they will start with the roll-out of the facility in January. The pitches and grass will be planted by April and in the meantime we are going to start with the planning and development phase of the buildings. We want to play cricket at that facility in August next year, so it’s exciting times for us,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Muller said that Namibia’s men are currently ranked 14th in the world in both the T20 and 50-over formats, while the women are ranked 18th in the world. He said that to maintain these levels it was important to plough back and to develop the sport further, and in this regard highlighted their developmental efforts at Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay, where a world-class indoor training facility had been built.<\/p>\n

\u201cKuisebmond is a celebration for us – it produces almost 80 percent of our national women’s players, but their facility was underdeveloped for a number of years, so we decided to put our resources into the development of it and now the nets they have there are probably some of the best net facilities in the country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe academy centre is in the middle of the Kuisebmond, which now gives walking distance access to all of our girls and boys programmes. Now we can produce excellence, because we don’t just want to compete, we want to excel,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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