2025 Canada Tri-Nation Series (League 2)
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| Part of 2024–2026 Cricket World Cup League 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 27 August – 6 September 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
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Namibia named Peter-Daniel Blignaut, Shaun Fouché, Junior Kariata and Simon Shikongo as reserves in their squad.[7]
Tour matches
Warm-up matches
Canada Emerging
191 (49.5 overs) |
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Canada A
192/2 (43 overs) |
Ashish Malhotra 43 (59)
Salman Nazar 3/38 (8.5 overs) |
- Canada A won the toss and elected to field.
Canada Emerging
199 (46.2 overs) |
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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 the toss and elected to bat.
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Canada A
77 (28 overs) | |
- Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.
Canada Emerging
179/13 (50 overs) |
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Ben Breitmeyer 40 (45)
Sheel Patel 4/28 (9 overs) |
Ali Nadeem 70 (70)
Padam Joshi 2/29 (6 overs) |
- Canada Emerging won the toss and elected to bat.
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Canada Emerging
127 (31.5 overs) | |
Dilraj Deol 36 (61)
Harsh Thaker 3/1 (1.5 overs) |
- Canada won the toss and elected to bat.
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Canada A
116 (34.3 overs) | |
Gerhard Erasmus 110 (124)
Sukhjinder Singh 2/43 (10 overs) |
- Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.
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Canada A
109 (29.3 overs) | |
Jean-Pierre Kotze 102 (135)
Sukhjinder Singh 5/35 (9 overs) |
- Namibia won the toss and elected to bat.
Fixtures
1st ODI
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Ali Nadeem 46 (66)
Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton 3/22 (7.1 overs) |
- 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
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
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- 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
References
- ^ "Cricket Canada to host Namibia and Scotland for ODI Tri-series in August 2025". Czarsportz. Retrieved 17 July 2025.
- ^ @canadiancricket (21 August 2025). "Six days. Three nations. Endless cricketing action. 🔥" (Tweet) – via X (formerly Twitter).
- ^ "Eight-team CWC League 2 begins in Nepal on the road to 2027". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
- ^ @canadiancricket (23 August 2025). "Announcing Canada's squad – ICC Men's CWC League 2!" (Tweet) – via X (formerly Twitter).
- ^ "FNB Eagles tourto Canada". Cricket Namibia. Retrieved 15 August 2025 – via Facebook.
- ^ "Fresh faces in Scotland squad to face Canada and Namibia". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 12 August 2025.
- ^ @CricketNamibia1 (15 August 2025). "FNB EAGLES TOUR TO CANADA" (Tweet) – via X (formerly Twitter).
- ^ "Maiden ODI Century for Jan Frylinck!". Cricket Namibia. Retrieved 28 August 2025 – via Facebook.
- ^ "Congratulations to Bernard Scholtz, the first-ever Namibian cricketer to reach 100 ODI wickets!". Cricket Namibia. Retrieved 5 September 2025 – via Instagram.