2025 Canada Tri-Nation Series (League 2)

2025 Canada Tri-Nation Series
Part of 2024–2026 Cricket World Cup League 2
Date27 August – 6 September 2025
LocationCanada
Teams
 Canada  Namibia  Scotland
Captains
Nicholas Kirton Gerhard Erasmus Richie Berrington
Most runs
Shreyas Movva (94)
Saad Bin Zafar (94)
Jan Frylinck (177) George Munsey (143)
Most wickets
Kaleem Sana (5) Bernard Scholtz (8) Brad Currie (6)

The 2025 Canada Tri-Nation Series was the fourteenth round of the 2024–2026 Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament which took place in Canada in August and September 2025.[1] It was a tri-nation series contested by the men's national teams of the Canada, Namibia and Scotland.[2] The matches were played as One Day International (ODI) fixtures.[3]

Squads

 Canada[4]  Namibia[5]  Scotland[6]

Namibia named Peter-Daniel Blignaut, Shaun Fouché, Junior Kariata and Simon Shikongo as reserves in their squad.[7]

Tour matches

Warm-up matches
14 August 2025
10:00
Scorecard
Canada Emerging
191 (49.5 overs)
v
Canada A
192/2 (43 overs)
Ashish Malhotra 43 (59)
Salman Nazar 3/38 (8.5 overs)
Samit Gohel 84* (122)
Ben Breitmeyer 1/30 (5 overs)
Canada A won by 8 wickets
Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City
Player of the match: Samit Gohel (Canada A)
  • Canada A won the toss and elected to field.

15 August 2025
10:00
Scorecard
Canada Emerging
199 (46.2 overs)
v
Canada A
188 (49 overs)
Roopkaran Singh 56 (89)
Salman Nazar 4/45 (10 overs)
Mansab Gill 57 (89)
Muhammad Ali Khan 4/35 (10 overs)
Canada Emerging won by 11 runs
Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City
  • Canada Emerging won the toss and elected to bat.

18 August 2025
10:30
Scorecard
Namibia 
87 (35.4 overs)
v
Canada A
77 (28 overs)
JJ Smit 38* (64)
Sukhjinder Singh 4/11 (8 overs)
Samit Gohel 27 (73)
Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton 3/23 (5 overs)
Namibia won by 10 runs
Toronto Cricket Club, Toronto
Player of the match: JJ Smit (Nam)
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.

18 August 2025
10:30
Scorecard
Canada Emerging
179/13 (50 overs)
v
 Canada
181/6 (33.1 overs)
Ben Breitmeyer 40 (45)
Sheel Patel 4/28 (9 overs)
Ali Nadeem 70 (70)
Padam Joshi 2/29 (6 overs)
Canada won by 8 wickets
Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City
Player of the match: Sheel Patel (Can)
  • Canada Emerging won the toss and elected to bat.

21 August 2025
10:00
Scorecard
Canada 
267/1 (50 overs)
v
Canada Emerging
127 (31.5 overs)
Ali Nadeem 57* (64)
Rishiv Joshi 1/22 (5 overs)
Dilraj Deol 36 (61)
Harsh Thaker 3/1 (1.5 overs)
Canada won by 140 runs
Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City
  • Canada won the toss and elected to bat.

21 August 2025
11:20
Scorecard
Namibia 
262/6 (50 overs)
v
Canada A
116 (34.3 overs)
Gerhard Erasmus 110 (124)
Sukhjinder Singh 2/43 (10 overs)
Ajayveer Hundal 49* (82)
Bernard Scholtz 6/4 (6 overs)
Namibia won by 146 runs
Maple Leaf Cricket Club, King City
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.

22 August 2025
11:15
Scorecard
Namibia 
242/8 (50 overs)
v
Canada A
109 (29.3 overs)
Jean-Pierre Kotze 102 (135)
Sukhjinder Singh 5/35 (9 overs)
Rahul Vashishtha 30* (39)
Ruben Trumpelmann 4/21 (6 overs)
Namibia won by 133 runs
Toronto Cricket Club, Toronto
Player of the match: Sukhjinder Singh (Canada A)
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.

Fixtures

1st ODI

27 August 2025
10:30
Scorecard
Canada 
219 (49.1 overs)
v
 Namibia
220/5 (48.2 overs)
Ali Nadeem 46 (66)
Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton 3/22 (7.1 overs)
Jan Frylinck 114 (146)
Kaleem Sana 3/40 (9 overs)
Namibia won by 5 wickets
Maple Leaf North-West Ground, King City
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Shaun Haig (NZ)
Player of the match: Jan Frylinck (Nam)
  • Namibia won the toss and elected to field.
  • Ali Nadeem, Jaskaran Singh (Can) and Willem Myburgh (Nam) all made their ODI debuts.
  • Jan Frylinck (Nam) scored his first century in ODIs.[8]

2nd ODI

29 August 2025
10:30
Scorecard
v
Match abandoned
Maple Leaf North-West Ground, King City
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Rohan Shah (Can)
  • No toss.
  • No play was possible due to rain.

3rd ODI

31 August 2025
10:30
Scorecard
Canada 
184 (48.1 overs)
v
 Scotland
187/3 (41.5 overs)
Shreyas Movva 60 (110)
Brad Currie 4/26 (10 overs)
George Munsey 84* (103)
Kaleem Sana 2/20 (5 overs)
Scotland won by 7 wickets
Maple Leaf North-West Ground, King City
Umpires: Shaun Haig (NZ) and Rohan Shah (Can)
Player of the match: George Munsey (Sco)
  • Scotland won the toss and elected to field.
  • Tom Bruce (Sco) made his ODI debut.

4th ODI

2 September 2025
10:30
Scorecard
Namibia 
261/8 (50 overs)
v
 Canada
237 (48.3 overs)
Malan Kruger 80 (132)
Akhil Kumar 3/47 (10 overs)
Nicholas Kirton 46 (44)
Bernard Scholtz 4/31 (10 overs)
Namibia won by 24 runs
Maple Leaf North-West Ground, King City
Umpires: Shaun Haig (NZ) and Rohan Shah (Can)
Player of the match: Bernard Scholtz (Nam)
  • Canada won the toss and elected to field.

5th ODI

4 September 2025
10:30
Scorecard
Scotland 
164 (24 overs)
v
 Namibia
109 (21.2 overs)
George Munsey 59 (31)
Ruben Trumpelmann 3/24 (5 overs)
Zane Green 27 (32)
Chris Greaves 3/24 (3 overs)
Scotland won by 55 runs
Maple Leaf North-West Ground, King City
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Rohan Shah (Can)
Player of the match: George Munsey (Sco)
  • Scotland won the toss and elected to bat.
  • The match was reduced to 24 overs per side due to rain.
  • Bernard Scholtz became the first player to take 100 wickets for Namibia in men's ODIs.[9]

6th ODI

6 September 2025
10:30
Scorecard
v
Match abandoned
Maple Leaf North-West Ground, King City
Umpires: Harry Grewal (Can) and Shaun Haig (NZ)
  • No toss.
  • No play was possible due to rain.

References

  1. ^ "Cricket Canada to host Namibia and Scotland for ODI Tri-series in August 2025". Czarsportz. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
  2. ^ @canadiancricket (21 August 2025). "Six days. Three nations. Endless cricketing action. 🔥" (Tweet) – via X (formerly Twitter).
  3. ^ "Eight-team CWC League 2 begins in Nepal on the road to 2027". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  4. ^ @canadiancricket (23 August 2025). "Announcing Canada's squad – ICC Men's CWC League 2!" (Tweet) – via X (formerly Twitter).
  5. ^ "FNB Eagles tourto Canada". Cricket Namibia. Retrieved 15 August 2025 – via Facebook.
  6. ^ "Fresh faces in Scotland squad to face Canada and Namibia". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
  7. ^ @CricketNamibia1 (15 August 2025). "FNB EAGLES TOUR TO CANADA" (Tweet) – via X (formerly Twitter).
  8. ^ "Maiden ODI Century for Jan Frylinck!". Cricket Namibia. Retrieved 28 August 2025 – via Facebook.
  9. ^ "Congratulations to Bernard Scholtz, the first-ever Namibian cricketer to reach 100 ODI wickets!". Cricket Namibia. Retrieved 5 September 2025 – via Instagram.