A Merwe In addition to being the current captain of the Namibia cricket team, Gerhard Erasmus is a Namibian cricketer who was born on April 11th, 1995. In February 2011, when Erasmus was just 15 years old, he made his debut for Namibia at the senior level, playing against a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) team that was on tour. It was against Ireland in September 2011 during the 2011–2013 ICC Intercontinental Cup that he made his debut in both the international and first-class competitions. At the age of sixteen, he became the youngest player in the history of the team.
Additionally, he was a part of the Namibian team that competed in the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier in 2012. Erasmus was a member of the Namibia under-19 team that competed in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Australia in 2012. At the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, which took place in the United Arab Emirates in 2014, he became the captain of the squad. When Namibia competed in the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two event, Erasmus was a member of the team that competed. The announcement that he will be a part of Namibia’s team for the 2018 Africa Twenty20 Cup came in August of 2018.
The selection of Erasmus as the captain of Namibia’s team for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two event took place in March of this year. This resulted in Namibia achieving One Day International (ODI) status, as they finished in the top four positions in the competition. On April 27, 2019, Erasmus made his first appearance for Namibia in a One-Day International (ODI) match against Oman, which was the tournament’s last match. It was announced in May 2019 that he would be leading the Namibian team that would compete in the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC Twenty20 World Cup Africa Qualifier competition, which would take place in Uganda.
In the Twenty20 International (T20I) match that took place on May 20, 2019, he made his debut for Namibia against Ghana. It was announced in June 2019 that Erasmus was one of twenty-five cricketers who had been selected for inclusion in the Elite Men’s Squad of Cricket Namibia in preparation for the 2019–20 international season. His appointment as captain of Namibia’s team for the 2019 ICC Twenty20 World Cup Qualifier event, which will take place in the United Arab Emirates, will take place in September of this year.
Gerhard Erasmus Biography
| Name | Gerhard Erasmus |
| Full Name | Merwe Gerhard Erasmus |
| Date of Birth | 11 April 1995 |
| Place of Birth | Windhoek, Namibia |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Namibian |
| Father’s Name | NA |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting Allrounder |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right arm off-break |
| ODI Debut | April 27, 2019 vs. Oman |
| Test Debut | NA |
| T20 Debut | May 20, 2019 vs. Ghana |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | Still Playing |
The tournament saw him score 268 runs for Namibia, making him the best-run scorer in the country. He played in nine matches. Immediately after the completion of the championship match, he was recognized as the player of the tournament. It was announced in September 2021 that Erasmus would be the captain of Namibia’s side that would compete in the 2021 ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup. Subsequently, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that Erasmus would be the most important player for Namibia’s team.
Throughout a warm-up match against Scotland before the competition, he suffered a finger injury while fielding. Despite the injuries, he decided to continue playing in the competition and to serve as captain of his team all the way through. Erasmus got his maiden century in one-day international cricket in March 2022, during the second match of the United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series. He was 121 not out at the time of his remarkable achievement. A month later, in the second match against Uganda, Erasmus also recorded his maiden century in Twenty20 International cricket with an unbroken 100 against Uganda. This was his first century in the format.
The International Cricket Council presented Erasmus with the Associate Cricketer of the Year title in January of 2023. Erasmus scored 956 runs in one-day internationals at an average of 56.23, took a dozen wickets, and hit a century in both one-day internationals and Twenty20 Internationals in the year 2022. The selection of him as the captain of Namibia’s team for the 2024 ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup event took place in May of that year. Erasmus was a law student at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, where he was in his fourth year of study as of the year 2018.
In addition to being a former president of Cricket Namibia and an associate director of the International Cricket Council (ICC), his father Francois is the proprietor of a family law company in Windhoek. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium in North Sound, Antigua, Namibia played Australia in a Twenty20 International match. The match was part of Group B of the Twenty20 World Cup 2024. Gerhard Erasmus shattered a record that had stood for seventeen years. For Erasmus to get off the mark, it took him 17 balls, which is the most in the history of men’s Twenty20 Internationals for which data is available.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 44 | 43 | 4 | 1678 | 125 | 43.02 | 2104 | 79.75 | 2 | 13 | 134 | 37 | 25 | 0 |
| T20Is | 60 | 58 | 14 | 1440 | 100* | 32.72 | 1179 | 122.13 | 1 | 10 | 111 | 53 | 36 | 0 |
| FC | 38 | 68 | 6 | 1255 | 192 | 20.24 | 2844 | 44.12 | 1 | 3 | 149 | 13 | 24 | 2 |
| List A | 101 | 94 | 12 | 3095 | 125 | 37.74 | 3956 | 78.23 | 2 | 24 | 237 | 68 | 68 | 0 |
| T20s | 120 | 103 | 19 | 2034 | 100* | 24.21 | 1720 | 118.25 | 1 | 11 | 156 | 76 | 55 | 5 |
Bowling
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 44 | 30 | 1026 | 719 | 32 | 5/28 | 5/28 | 22.46 | 4.20 | 32.0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| T20Is | 60 | 39 | 715 | 617 | 47 | 3/7 | 3/7 | 13.12 | 5.17 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| FC | 38 | 7 | 146 | 104 | 2 | 2/46 | 2/46 | 52.00 | 4.27 | 73.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| List A | 101 | 39 | 1233 | 875 | 39 | 5/28 | 5/28 | 22.43 | 4.25 | 31.6 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| T20s | 120 | 51 | 877 | 840 | 53 | 3/7 | 3/7 | 15.84 | 5.74 | 16.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
During the match against Pakistan in 2007, Kenya’s Tanmay Mishra scored his maiden run after taking 16 balls to do so. This occurred during a quadrangular series. Erasmus of Namibia is the first batter in the history of Twenty20 Internationals to score more than one thousand runs. He holds the record for the most runs scored in a Twenty20 International. Erasmus indeed got off to a poor start, but, arguably, he was the most outstanding batter for Namibia on that particular day. As soon as his side lost the early wickets of Nikolaas Davin and Michael van Lingen, the right-handed batter succumbed to the strain that was beginning to build up.
Before Marcus Stoinis secured his wicket, Erasmus had hit 36 runs off of 43 balls, including four fours and a six. Furthermore, Erasmus was a member of a partnership with Jack Brassell that resulted in a total of 29 runs for the ninth wicket. Van Lingen was the only batter to reach double digits, with Erasmus being the only other batter to do so. Both Ben Shikongo and Bernard Scholtz were unable to successfully open their accounts. In addition, David Wiese, who is well-known for his powerful hitting, was unable to get going after he collapsed for one run off of seven balls.
