Namibia cricket group captain Gerhard Erasmus alongside India batter Virat Kohli, picture posted on February 4, 2026. — Instagram/@gerhard_erasmus
Namibia cricket group captain Gerhard Erasmus has questioned why his aspect was not given an evening coaching session forward of their under-lights ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 conflict towards defending champions India as we speak on the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.
“Yeah, we haven’t been given a night training (session) before this game, I don’t know why. I think India has two night training (sessions) and I see outside that Canada will have a night training now, so make of that what you want, but we’ll just rock up and do our Namibian way, which is to fight,” Erasmus mentioned.
Namibia performed a day match towards the Netherlands on Monday after which educated in daylight on the next two days, he mentioned, whereas India educated twice at night time within the lead-up to the fixture.
The query turned extra pertinent when Erasmus and his teammates, simply as Namibia had been getting ready to go away the venue, noticed Canada beginning to prepare alongside India in an evening session on the identical venue regardless of Canada being scheduled to play a day match towards the UAE on Friday.
Erasmus mentioned the problem mattered as a result of Namibia have restricted expertise taking part in beneath lights, as they don’t have floodlights again dwelling and don’t compete in lots of night time or day-night match-ups.
“We haven’t got any (flood) lights in Namibia… the day/night games. Infrastructure-wise, it’s probably the challenge for us, so yeah, it’s not a casual thing for guys that don’t have (experience)…” he mentioned.
“I think barring the guys who played in the Nepal Premier League and the ILT20 and the World Cups that we’ve played, you don’t really get accustomed to lights and training under it very often,” Erasmus added.
The ICC mentioned Namibia’s request for a coaching session beneath lights had come too late.Â
“All teams were given the training schedules well in advance of the tournament – on 27 January – and requests for change in timings were entertained wherever possible,” a spokesperson mentioned.Â
“However, Namibia’s request came in only the previous night (February 10) – too late for us to adjust the schedule,” they added.
Namibia certified for the event after successful the Africa qualifier in Harare however started their marketing campaign with a defeat towards the Netherlands. They face america nationwide cricket group and Pakistan cricket group of their remaining group fixtures, each scheduled to start out at 3pm.
