‘Knew what I had to execute in Super Over’: David Wiese

Oman’s Naseem Khushi is clean bowled by Namibia’s David Wiese in the Super Over on Sunday. Pic/AFP

Namibia scored a nerve-shredding victory over Oman in their T20 World Cup Group ‘B' clash here on Sunday after a low-scoring thriller was decided by a Super Over.

David Wiese was the hero for Namibia, contributing 13 runs in the Africans's Super Over total of 21 before then restricting Oman to 10 runs with the ball in hand to seal a crucial win at Kensington Oval.

David Wiese

Thrilling finish

The match had gone to a decisive extra over after a tense duel saw both teams finish with 109 runs from their allotted 20 overs. Oman had looked to be heading for defeat after a superb four-wicket bowling display from Ruben Trumpelmann saw them all out for 109 off 19.4 overs. But Oman's bowlers responded with a disciplined performance to contain Namibia's bats, with Mehran Khan conjuring a superb spell to leave the match on a knife edge. Mehran finished with figures of 3-7 off three overs. The veteran Oman bowler took two wickets in the final over to frustrate Namibia, who needed just five runs from the over to clinch victory. But Mehran was bizarrely overlooked for the Super Over bowling duties by Oman, with Bilal Khan handed the ball instead. That move backfired spectacularly, though, with Wiese blasting a four off the first ball and then crushing a full toss for six off Bilal's second delivery. Wiese took three more runs off the next two balls before Namibia skipper Gerhard Erasmus hit back-to-back fours to set Oman a daunting victory target of 22 off their super over.

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Wiese took over the bowling duties for Namibia and after conceding just two runs from his first two deliveries, took the wicket of Naseem Khushi. Two more singles left Oman needing 18 from the last delivery to win, meaning Wiese could allow Zeeshan Maqsood to blast a six knowing victory was assured. "I definitely aged a couple of years tonight," the 39-year-old Wiese said.

‘Emotionally drained'

"And I don't have a lot of years left in me. It was an emotionally draining evening." Wiese said he had been confident of steering Namibia to victory with bat and ball in the Super Over: "I had a feel for the wicket and knew what I had to execute in the Super Over. The pitch was difficult, was a bit two-paced and different to what we expected. I think we adapted well and it was surely a pitch where you had to spend some time out there. I think if we were chasing 180, we would have had to attack without thinking too much about the pitch, so tough to say what would have been a par total on this wicket."

2012
The year T20 World Cup witnessed its last Super Over before Namibia v Oman match on Sunday

Brief scores
Oman 109 all out in 19.4 overs (K Kail 34; R Trumpelmann 4-21; D Wiese 3-28, G Erasmus 2-20) v Namibia 109-6 in 20 overs (J Frylinck 45; M Khan 3-7) Match tied (Namibia won the Super Over)

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