Personal information | |
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Born | Gobabis, Namibia | 17 April 1992
Batting | Left-handed |
Bowling | Left-arm medium |
Role | Bowler |
International information | |
National side |
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ODI debut (cap 34) | 6 March 2022 v Oman |
Last ODI | 26 November 2022 v USA |
T20I debut (cap 8) | 20 May 2019 v Ghana |
Last T20I | 30 October 2023 v Zimbabwe |
Source:
CricketArchive, 29 November 2022 |
Tangeni Lungameni (born 17 April 1992) is a Namibian international cricketer who made his debut for the Namibian national team in January 2016. He is a left-arm pace bowler.
Lungameni is from Gobabis, but moved to Windhoek to attend Windhoek Technical School. [1] He started playing cricket at the age of six. [2] He spent two seasons as a member of the Namibia under-19 team, including at the 2011 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier, and made his debut for Namibia A in July 2015, against Botswana. [2] [3] He was not included in the squad for the 2012 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. [2] After getting dropped, he quit cricket for a while. In 2013, he joined the Windhoek High School Old Boys Cricket Club, on request of Francois Erasmus who was then president of Cricket Namibia, and played for 4th XI of the club. [2] Later, he became a community coach and then a head groundsman for Cricket Namibia. [2]
In January 2016, Lungameni made his senior debut for Namibia, in a Sunfoil 3-Day Cup match against Gauteng (a South African provincial team). [4] Later in the 2015–16 season, he also made appearances in the Provincial 50-Over Challenge and the Provincial T20 Challenge. [5] [6] Lungameni's international debut came in April 2016, when he played in an ICC Intercontinental Cup match against Afghanistan. [7] Outside of playing cricket, he works as Cricket Namibia's head groundsman, having replaced Wynand Louw in the position. [1] Lungameni is one of the few black players to play at a high level in Namibia. [8]
In August 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. [9] In October 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad in the Southern sub region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Africa Qualifier tournament in Botswana. [10] On 29 October 2018, in the match against Mozambique, he took a hat-trick. [11] [12]
In March 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. [13] In May 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. [14] [15] He made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut for Namibia against Ghana on 20 May 2019. [16]
In June 2019, he was one of twenty-five cricketers to be named in Cricket Namibia's Elite Men's Squad ahead of the 2019–20 international season. [17] [18] In August 2019, he was named in Namibia's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2019 United States Tri-Nation Series. [19] In September 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates. [20]
In November 2021, he was named as a reserve in Namibia's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2021 Namibia Tri-Nation Series. [21] In March 2022, he was named in Namibia's ODI squad for the 2022 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series. [22] He made his ODI debut on 6 March 2022, for Namibia against Oman. [23]
In May 2024, he was named in Namibia’s squad for the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament. [24]