South African cricket team in Namibia in 2025–26

South African cricket team in Namibia in 2025–26
	Namibia	South Africa
Dates	11 October 2025
Captains	Gerhard Erasmus	Donovan Ferreira
Twenty20 International series
Results	Namibia won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Zane Green (30)	Jason Smith (31)
Most wickets	Ruben Trumpelmann (3)	Nandre Burger (2) Andile Simelane (2)

The South Africa cricket team toured Namibia in October 2025 to play the Namibia cricket team. ^{[1] [2]} The tour consisted of a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) match. ^[3] The match was played at the Namibia Cricket Ground in Windhoek. ^[4] In May 2025, the Cricket Namibia (CN) confirmed the fixtures for the tour. ^[5] This match commemorated the opening of Cricket Namibia's first official stadium. ^[6] It was the first-ever international match between the two sides. ^[7] Namibia won the match by 4 wickets in last ball thriller. ^{[8] [9]}

Squads

Namibia [10]	South Africa [11]
Gerhard Erasmus (c) Jan Balt Jack Brassell Jan-Izak de Villiers Jan Frylinck Zane Green Max Heingo Malan Kruger Dylan Leicher Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton Bernard Scholtz Ben Shikongo JJ Smit Louren Steenkamp Ruben Trumpelmann	Donovan Ferreira (c) Ottniel Baartman Nandre Burger Gerald Coetzee Quinton de Kock Bjorn Fortuin Reeza Hendricks Rubin Hermann (wk) Kwena Maphaka Rivaldo Moonsamy Nqaba Peter Lhuan-dre Pretorius (wk) Andile Simelane Jason Smith Lizaad Williams

On 9th October, Kwena Maphaka was ruled out of the match due to hamstring injury and replaced by Ottniel Baartman. ^{[12] [13]}

Only T20I

11 October 2025 14:00 Scorecard

South Africa   134/8 (20 overs)	v	Namibia 138/6 (20 overs)
Jason Smith 31 (30) Ruben Trumpelmann 3/28 (4 overs)		Zane Green 30* (23) Nandre Burger 2/21 (4 overs)

Namibia won by 4 wickets Namibia Cricket Ground, Windhoek Umpires: Stephen Harris (SA) and Andrew Louw (Nam) Player of the match: Ruben Trumpelmann (Nam)

• South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
• Donovan Ferreira captained South Africa for the first time in T20Is.
• Max Heingo (Nam) made his T20I debut.

References

1. "Namibia to Host South Africa For One-Off T20I in October 2025". Cricket.com. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
2. "Namibia to play South Africa for first time in new Windhoek stadium in October". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 27 May 2025.
3. "Proteas to play in Namibia". SA Cricketing. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
4. "Eagles to host Proteas in historic T20 international". The Namibian. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
5. "Namibia to take on Proteas in historic T20 match in Windhoek". The Citizen. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
6. "Namibia to host Proteas Men for historic T20I". Cricket Namibia . Retrieved 27 May 2025.
7. "Namibia to host South Africa for a historic T20I". International Cricket Council . Retrieved 28 May 2025.
8. "Namibia stun South Africa in historic first meeting". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
9. "Trumpelmann, Green star as Namibia beat South Africa in last-ball thriller". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 11 October 2025.
10. @CricketNamibia1 (6 October 2025). "SQUAD ANNOUNCEMENT Good luck to our FNB Eagles, ready to take on the South Africa Proteas on 11 October 2025 at the official inauguration of the FNB Namibia Cricket Ground" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
11. "Proteas Men's Squads Announced For Pakistan Tour And Namibia T20I". Cricket South Africa . Retrieved 22 September 2025.
12. "Maphaka ruled out of Namibia T20I and Pakistan ODIs with hamstring injury". ESPNcricinfo . Retrieved 9 October 2025.
13. "Maphaka ruled out despite initial 'clean scan'". Cricbuzz . Retrieved 9 October 2025.