\u201cWe haven\u2019t been given a night training (session) before this game, I don\u2019t know why,\u201d says Gerhard Erasmus
\n Delhi
\nNamibia cricket team captain Gerhard Erasmus has questioned why his side was not given a night training session ahead of their under-lights ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 clash against defending champions India today at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.
\n\u201cYeah, we haven\u2019t been given a night training (session) before this game, I don\u2019t 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\u2019ll just rock up and do our Namibian way, which is to fight,\u201d Erasmus said.
\nNamibia played a day match against the Netherlands on Monday and then trained in daylight on the following two days, he said, while India trained twice at night in the lead-up to the fixture.
\nThe question became more pertinent when Erasmus and his teammates, just as Namibia were preparing to leave the venue, saw Canada starting to train alongside India in a night session at the same venue despite Canada being scheduled to play an afternoon match against the UAE on Friday.
\nErasmus said the issue mattered because Namibia have limited experience playing under lights, as they do not have floodlights back home and do not compete in many night or day-night match-ups.
\n\u201cWe haven\u2019t got any (flood) lights in Namibia… the day\/night games. Infrastructure-wise, it\u2019s probably the challenge for us, so yeah, it\u2019s not a casual thing for guys that don\u2019t have (experience)…\u201d he said.
\n\u201cI think barring the guys who played in the Nepal Premier League and the ILT20 and the World Cups that we\u2019ve played, you don\u2019t really get accustomed to lights and training under it very often,\u201d Erasmus added.
\nThe ICC said Namibia\u2019s request for a training session under lights had come too late.
\n\u201cAll 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,\u201d a spokesperson said.
\n\u201cHowever, Namibia\u2019s request came in only the previous night (February 10) – too late for us to adjust the schedule,\u201d they added.
\nNamibia qualified for the tournament after winning the Africa qualifier in Harare but began their campaign with a defeat against the Netherlands. They face the United States national cricket team and Pakistan cricket team in their remaining group fixtures, both scheduled to start at 3pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe haven\u2019t been given a night training (session) before this game, I don\u2019t know why,\u201d says Gerhard Erasmus Delhi Namibia cricket team captain Gerhard Erasmus has questioned why his side was not given a night training session ahead of their under-lights ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 clash against defending champions India today at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-531064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n