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India vs Namibia T20 Cricket World Cup Predictions - Yadav to roast the Namibian attack

Simon Lewis

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Last updated: 11 Feb 2026

Simon Lewis 11 Feb 2026

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Suryakumar Yadav hit four sixes in his 49-ball 84* against the USA.
Jan Frylinck has scored 88 and 30 in his last two innings.
Can India overcome their injury problems to claim back-to-back wins?

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Suryakumar Yadav hits out against the USA (Getty Images).

India vs Namibia Predictions

India have a number of injury issues in addition to concerns over their top order, but they shouldn’t have any problems overcoming a Namibian side that is resolute but short of depth.

India vs Namibia Predictions
Head-to-Head
India Form
Namibia Form
India vs Namibia Team News & Squads

India’s Suryakumar Yadav has scored 57*, 63, 30 & 84* in his last 5 innings.
India’s Tilak Varma has scored 109, 34, 38 and 45 in his last 5 innings.
Namibia’s Jan Frylinck scored 30 off 26 balls against the Netherlands.
Namibia’s Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton scored 42 off 38 balls against the Netherlands.

Head-to-Head

The two sides have met just once in T20Is, with India claiming a nine-wicket win in 2021

India Form

India continued their fine form in T20 cricket, following their 4-1 series victory over New Zealand by beating the USA by 29 runs, although it needed a captain’s innings to rescue the hosts after a disastrous start to the match.

Suryakumar Yadav played a truly great T20 captain’s innings to rescue his side from 46/4. Yadav slammed four sixes and 10 fours in a scintillating 49-ball 84* that lifted India to a respectable 161/9 off their 20 overs. Tilak Varma kept the runs flowing with a 16-ball innings of 25 that included three fours and a six.

Mohammed Siraj (3/29, econ 7.25) knocked over both US openers to leave them reeling at 13/3. The US recovered enough to post 132/8 off their 20 overs, with Arshdeep Singh (2/18, econ 4.50) and Axar Patel (2/24, econ 6.00) producing superb spells of bowling to shut out the challenge from the USA.

Namibia Form

Namibia beat Scotland before being handed a 130-run defeat by India A in their two warm-up matches. They then lost their opening match in the World Cup against the Netherlands by seven wickets.

Jan Frylinck (30 off 26) and Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton (42 off 38) took Namibia to 60/1 after nine overs. Gerhard Erasmus (18 off 9) and JJ Smit (22 off 15) added some quick runs, but Namibia’s lower middle-order battled their way to 156/8 against the strong Netherlands attack.

Ruben Trumpelmann picked up one of the two Netherlands wickets to fall, finishing with figures of 1/30 on the back of returns of 2/9, 3/3 and 2/44 in his previous four matches. Bernard Scholtz kept his end tight while picking up 1/27 (econ 6.75).

India vs Namibia Team News & Squads

India have major injury problems, with Jasprit Bumrah, Abhishek Sharma and Washington Sundar all struggling to pass their fitness tests ahead of the clash with Namibia.

India skipper Suryakumar Yadav admitted in the post-match interview that he was relieved to bat through the innings to rescue his side after their top-order collapse. “I knew if I bat till the end I can make a difference. It was a different wicket but we knew there was not a lot of sun outside to have the pitch rolled and watered,” said Yadav.

“We need to bat much better but after winning you get to learn a lot of things. We could have batted better and smarter, and one or two partnerships could have gotten us to 160 more easily. Bumrah was having fever, Abhishek was also under the weather and Washington will join us in Delhi,” added Yadav.

Namibia’s young paceman Max Heingo (17) sent down two expensive overs against the Netherlands. Talk in the Namibia camp is that Heingo could make way for the more experienced bowler Ben Shikongo.

After their opening loss to the Netherlands, Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus was happy that his side had put together a decent performance, despite suffering a seven-wicket loss. "I thought we did reasonably well early on. The wicket was quite tacky at the start of the morning, so being 40/1 was a bit low on runs but good for assessing where we were in the game. I thought we did a decent job up until the halfway mark, but we couldn't quite push that total deep enough,” said Erasmus.

India (possible XI): Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav (c), Hardik Pandya, Rinku Singh, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Varun Chakravarthy.

Namibia (possible): 1 Louren Steenkamp, 2 Jan Frylinck, 3 Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, 4 Gerhard Erasmus (capt), 5 JJ Smit, 6 Zane Green (wk), 7 Dylan Leicher, 8 Willem Myburgh, 9 Ruben Trumpelmann, 10 Bernard Scholtz, 10 Ben Shikongo.

Verdict

India v Namibia

I am backing India to win. I am also backing Suryakumar Yadav to top score for India.

Jan Frylinck is a good bet to top score for Namibia.

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Simon is a talented sports writer in South Africa with a strong focus on cricket having played first-team level for UCT, including playing at two Universities Weeks.

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