Andrew Louw (umpire)

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Andrew Louw
Personal information
Born (1987-08-18) 18 August 1987 (age 36)
Windhoek, South-West Africa
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm off break
Role Umpire
Relations Wynand Louw (father)
Umpiring information
ODIs  umpired11 (2021–2023)
T20Is  umpired16 (2019–2022)
WT20Is  umpired13 (2019–2021)
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches1
Runs scored7
Batting average
100s/50s/
Top score7*
Balls bowled72
Wickets 1
Bowling average 53.00
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling1/23
Catches/stumpings 1/
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 5 April 2023

Andrew Louw (born August 18, 1987) is a Namibian cricket umpire and former international cricketer.

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As a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler, he represented the Namibian under-19 side at the 2006 Under-19 World Cup, and subsequently played a single first-class match for the senior Namibian national team, against KwaZulu-Natal Inland in 2009. Louw made his first-class umpiring debut in April 2013, and has since officiated in limited-overs and Twenty20 matches. [1]

His father, Wynand Louw, is also an umpire, and has been on the ICC Associates and Affiliates Umpire Panel since 2013. [2] The pair officiated a 12-a-side game between Namibia A and Kenya in November 2014, [3] and also stood together in a 20-over match between Namibia and Hong Kong in May 2015, which had full Twenty20 status. [4]

On 20 May 2019, he stood in his first Twenty20 International (T20I) match, between Kenya and Nigeria in Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. [5]

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References

  1. Andrew Louw – CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  2. (7 January 2015). "ICC announces Associate and Affiliate Panel of Umpires for 2015" Archived 2015-05-18 at the Wayback Machine – International Cricket Council. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
  3. Namibia A v Kenya, Kenya in Namibia 2014/15 – CricketArchive. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
  4. "Hong Kong tour of Namibia, Namibia v Hong Kong at Windhoek, May 19, 2015". ESPNCricinfo. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  5. "4th Match, ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Region Final at Kampala, May 20 2019". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 May 2019.