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| Full name | Merwe Gerhard Erasmus | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 April 1995 Windhoek, Namibia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm off break | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ODI debut(cap 18) | 27 April 2019 v Oman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last ODI | 19 February 2024 v Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut(cap 4) | 20 May 2019 v Ghana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 30 November 2023 v Nigeria | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Merwe Gerhard Erasmus (born 11 April 1995) is a Namibian cricketer, [1] and the current captain of the Namibia cricket team. [2]
Erasmus first played at senior level for Namibia in February 2011,aged 15,against a touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side. [3] He made his international and first-class debut against Ireland in September 2011 in the 2011–2013 ICC Intercontinental Cup, [4] and at the age of 16,became the youngest player in the team's history. [5] He was a member of Namibia's squad for the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier. [6]
Erasmus was included in the Namibia under-19s squad for the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Australia. [7] He captained the team at the 2014 Under-19 Cricket World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. [8]
Erasmus played in Namibia's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [9] In August 2018,he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. [10]
In March 2019,Erasmus was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [11] Namibia finished in the top four places in the tournament,therefore gaining One Day International (ODI) status. [12] Erasmus made his ODI debut for Namibia on 27 April 2019,against Oman,in the tournament's final. [13] In May 2019,he was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. [14] [15] He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Namibia against Ghana on 20 May 2019. [16]
In June 2019,Erasmus was one of twenty-five cricketers to be named in Cricket Namibia's Elite Men's Squad ahead of the 2019–20 international season. [17] [18] In September 2019,he was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [19] [20] He was the leading run-scorer for Namibia in the tournament,with 268 runs in nine matches. [21] Following the conclusion of the final,he was named as the player of the tournament. [22]
In September 2021,Erasmus was named as the captain of Namibia's squad for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, [23] with the International Cricket Council (ICC) later naming him as the key player in Namibia's team. [24] In a warm-up match against Scotland before the tournament,he broke a finger while fielding. However,he decided to continue playing in the tournament and captain his team in spite of the injury. [25]
In March 2022,in the second match of the 2022 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series,Erasmus scored his first century in ODI cricket,with 121 not out. [26] The following month,in the second match against Uganda,Erasmus also scored his first century in T20I cricket, [27] with an unbeaten 100 against Uganda. [28]
In January 2023,Erasmus won the International Cricket Council's Associate Cricketer of the Year award. [29] Erasmus scored 956 ODI runs at an average of 56.23 and took a dozen wickets in 2022,and scored a century in both ODI and T20I formats. [30]
In May 2024,he was named the captain in Namibia’s squad for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament. [31]
As of 2018,Erasmus was a fourth-year law student at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. His father Francois runs a family law firm in Windhoek and is a former president of Cricket Namibia and associate director of the International Cricket Council (ICC). [3]
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