RESULT
3rd Place Playoff, Windhoek, February 15, 2018, ICC World Cricket League Division Two
247/4
(47.5/50 ov, T:248) 198

Canada won by 49 runs

Player Of The Match
78* (84) & 1/36
navneet-dhaliwal
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Canada defend 247 to claim third place

Canada's top-scorer Navneet Dhaliwal took out Namibia's top-scorer Louis van der Westhuizen and a chase that seemed possible at 131 for 3 simply fell away

Canada 247 for 4 (Dhaliwal 78*, Kirton 73*) beat Namibia 198 (van der Westhuizen 53, Bin Zafar 3-40) by 49 runs
Scorecard
Canada defended 247 against Namibia to claim third place in the WCL Division Two. The victory was set up by an unbroken 140-run partnership between Nicholas Kirton (73) and Navneet Dhaliwal (78) and sealed by a miserly trio of slow bowlers. Left-armer Saad Bin Zafar came away with the richest haul (3-40) but offspinner Nikhil Dutta (1-23) and legspinner Junaid Siddiqui (2-41) played no less important roles as they strangled the Namibian line-up. They managed an economy rate of 3.46 in their combined 30 overs.
There were only two substantial contributors for Namibia: Louis van der Westhuizen, who made 53, and Gerhard Erasmus, who made 42. Canada had to make do with a similar situation but Dhaliwal and Kirton were able to push on for longer, taking the score from 107 for 4 in the 24th over to match-winning proportions. Dhaliwal had a good day with the ball too, taking out Naminia's top-scorer to send their chase into freefall. The hosts crumbled from 131 for 3 to 198 all out.

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