Zimbabwean women's cricket team in Namibia in 2020–21

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Zimbabwean women's cricket team in Namibia in 2020–21
  Flag of Namibia.svg Flag of Zimbabwe.svg
  Namibia women Zimbabwe women
Dates 24 January – 2 February 2021
Captains Irene van Zyl
Twenty20 International series

The Zimbabwe women's cricket team were scheduled to tour Namibia between 24 January and 2 February 2021 to play a five-match Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) series and two 50-over games. [1] [2] [3] The venue for all of the matches was to be the United Ground in Windhoek. [4]

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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Namibian women's team had not played an international fixture since the Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier in September 2019 – a tournament that they had participated in following the International Cricket Council's suspension of Zimbabwe. [5] Zimbabwe's most recent matches were at the African qualifier event in May 2019.

On 7 January 2021, Cricket Namibia announced that the series had been postponed due to COVID-19 lockdown regulations in the country. [6]

Squads

Flag of Namibia.svg  Namibia [1] Flag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe

WT20I series

1st WT20I

24 January 2021
10:00
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2nd WT20I

25 January 2021
14:00
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3rd WT20I

27 January 2021
10:00
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4th WT20I

28 January 2021
14:00
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5th WT20I

30 January 2021
10:00
v

50-Over series

1st 50-Over match

31 January 2021
10:00
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2nd 50-Over match

2 February 2021
10:00
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