On paper Namibia's tour to Hong Kong should be something of a cake walk for the Namibians. The visitors sit 17th on the ODI rankings whilst Hong Kong do not even have that status yet. Furthermore Namibia didn't so much as hold their own in the World Cup....but they didn't sink as badly as they might.
One of the stars of their World Cup campaign was the main architect of today's opening win. The spectacularly named Ruben Trumplemann plagued Hong Kong throughout their, already challenging, chase of 308. He got the first wicket with a mere 15 runs on the board, came back in his second spell to bag his brace and then finished off with 2 wickets in the death overs to polish Hong Kong off.
Unlike most tours of this nature, the games are rather spread out with the second on Thursday and the final a week from today.
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