The Oman cricket team and the Namibia cricket team entered the field to face each other in the 17th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup League Two. So far this tournament these two teams have faced each other in two matches where both the teams have won one match each i.e. they are evenly matched in terms of power.
However, according to the point table, Namibia cricket team is in a very strong position than Oman cricket team, they are currently at number 2. The Namibian cricket team has faced the opposition in seven matches so far in the group stage where they have won four matches which has improved their points. On the other hand, Oman cricket team's defeat rate is more than their win rate which has pushed them to the bottom of the points table.
Namibia is dependent on some of their players with franchise T20 experience - especially Ruben Trumpelmann and David Wiese. Trumpelmann has been missing for some time, and I am not sure of the exact reason. Wiese is 39 years old and I am not sure whether we will see him in international cricket anymore. The player pool is very small for Namibia. They are a country of just 2.5 million, and out of that cricket is being mostly played by German and Afrikaans speaking whites who comprise just 4% of this 2.5 million.
That is really hard for a country who is trying to improve in certain sports. They already have a very low number of people in the country. And if they are not all interested in a certain sport, or at least half of them are not interested, it is obviously going to be a big problem for them to improve in that sport.
One thing I want to mention is that, if only 4% of the people of the country are actually playing cricket, imagine what would happen if the country were very interested in this sport!
I am not saying that the people of that country are not interested in cricket at all. However, the thing is, to be good in a certain sport, at least 30/40% of people have to think about that sport like it can be a profession. And of course, the government and also the ICC has to push cricket very hard in that country. Not only in Namibia but also in many other countries where there is a big potential of improvement in cricket. By doing that, the population of a country is most probably not going to be a problem.