Namibia and PNG square off

The final ICC World Cricket Cup Qualifying game at the Bay Oval is set to be a ripper as it decides the three Group B teams advancing to the CWCQ Super Six.

Tomorrow Namibia will have no other aspiration than to finish on top of the Group B standings with an unbeaten record.

Standing in their way is Papua New Guinea, who has lost just a single encounter to the Netherlands in their three CWCQ match-ups.

The likely scenario is Namibia will finish in the number one qualifying position if they beat PNG.

But a PNG upset, will open the gate for PNG and the Netherlands, if they defeat Kenya, to finish on six points apiece with Namibia. All three teams will move through to the Super Six with the final finishing positions decided by the tournament rules.

Several players from both sides feature in the CWCQ tournament top five individual statistics. PNG batsman Lega Siaka sits in third place on the most runs list with 182 and is second on the most boundaries list with twenty-eight.

Namibia's Louis Klazinga sits in fourth for the most wickets with 8 bowling scalps and is second on the best bowling stakes returning 4/27 against Uganda. Another Namibian bowler in Christi Viljoen is fifth in the best bowling stats with 4/33 taken in the encounter with the Netherlands.

The Man of the Match in the Namibia v Uganda game, was top order batsman LP van der Westhuizen, who joins team mates Gerry Snyman and JJ Smit in being awarded the top match performance prize.

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