Pakistan A beat Namibia A

Pakistan A notched up their third victory when they beat Namibia A by five wickets at Windhoek?s United field on April 26.
In the end Pakistan won comfortably with nine overs to spare, but there were also some fine performances by Namibia?s second stringers.
Namibia batted first and were all out for 154 runs. After losing openers Dawid Botha (11) and ST Ackerman (9), the wickets fell regularly, to leave Namibia reeling at 6 for 44. Stefan Swanepoel made 4, Armand Nederlof 9 and Sarel Burger a duck.
Hugo Ludik however came to Namibia?s rescue with a fine innings of 45 off 79 balls, including 3 fours, before he was run out. He received fine support from Nikolaas Scholtz (30) and Tobie Verwey (32 off 36 balls) as Namibia reached a total of 154 all out.
Pakistan?s wicket takers were Irshad (8 overs 1 maiden 18 runs 2 wickets), Mohammad Khalil (8-1-31-1), Riaz Afridi (8-2-18-2), Kamran Sajid (9-2-22-2) and Bazid Khan (10-1-41-1).
Athar Syed and Kamran Sajid got Pakistan A off to a good start with a first wicket partnership of 67 runs. Kamran eventually made 21 off 61 balls and Athar 56, including 4 fours, off 90 balls.
Hopes of a Namibia A revival flickered briefly when medium pacer Ian van Zyl removed Shehzad for 2 and Faisal Iqbal for 13, while wicket keeper Zulqarnain Haider was run out for 1, to leave Pakistan A at 99 for 5.
Ashar Zaidi (33 not out off 34 balls) and Bazid Khan (20 not out off 37) however took Pakistan A to the victory target with 9 overs to spare.
Ian van Zyl (10-1-41-3) and Niel Rossouw (8,1-0-42-1) were Namibia?s wicket takers.
Namibian middle-order batsman Hugo Ludik won the Man of the Match award.