A Namibian international cricketer, Tangeni Lungameni was born on April 17, 1992. He made his debut for the Namibian national team in January 2016, and he has been playing regularly since then. He bowls using his left arm when he bowls. Although Lungameni was born in Gobabis, he just relocated to Windhoek to enroll at Windhoek Technical School. He was just six years old when he first began playing cricket. It was in July 2015 that he made his debut for Namibia A, which was against Botswana. He had previously spent two seasons as a member of the Namibia under-19 squad, during which he participated in the 2011 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier.
He did not cut the team that competed in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup from 2012 to 2013. Following his dismissal from the team, he took a break from cricket for some time. On the recommendation of Francois Erasmus, who was serving as the president of Cricket Namibia at the time, he became a member of the Windhoek High School Old Boys Cricket Club in 2013. After joining, he played for the club’s fourth XI teams. After some time, he established himself as a community coach and then became the chief groundsman for Cricket Namibia.
The first time that Lungameni played for Namibia at the senior level was in January of 2016 when he participated in a Sunfoil 3-Day Cup match against Gauteng, a South African provincial side. In the latter part of the 2015–16 season, he also participated in the Provincial 50-Over Challenge and the Provincial Twenty20 Challenge. The first time Lungameni appeared for his country was in April of 2016 when he participated in a match against Afghanistan that was part of the ICC Intercontinental Cup.
Since Wynand Louw departed from the post, he has taken over as the chief groundsman for Cricket Namibia. In addition to playing cricket, he is also a groundsman. Among the few black players in Namibia who have achieved success at a high level, Lungameni is one of them. The announcement that he will be a part of Namibia’s team for the 2018 Africa Twenty20 Cup came in August of 2018. He was selected to represent Namibia in the Southern sub-region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Africa Qualifier event, which will take place in Botswana.
Tangeni Lungameni Biography
Name | Tangeni Lungameni |
Full Name | Tangeni Josef Lungamene |
Date of Birth | April 17, 1992 |
Place of Birth | Gobabis, Namibia |
Other Names | NA |
Nationality | Namibian |
Father’s Name | NA |
Mother’s Name | NA |
Siblings | NA |
Spouse | NA |
Marriage Date | NA |
Children | NA |
Role | Bowling |
Batting | Right-handed |
Bowling | Left-arm medium |
ODI Debut | March 06, 2022, 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 |
This announcement was made in October of 2018. He scored three goals in a match against Mozambique on October 29, 2018, and he did so at the same time. The announcement that he will be a part of Namibia’s team for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two event came in March of this year. The announcement of his inclusion in Namibia’s team for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC Twenty20 World Cup Africa Qualifier competition took place in Uganda in May of 2019. In the Twenty20 International (T20I) match that took place on May 20, 2019, he made his debut for Namibia against Ghana.
In June 2019, he was selected as one of twenty-five cricketers to be included in the Elite Men’s Squad of Cricket Namibia in preparation for the 2019–20 international season. He was selected to be a member of Namibia’s One-Day International (ODI) team for the 2019 United States Tri-Nation Series shortly after it was announced in August 2016. The selection of him to the Namibian team that will compete in the 2019 ICC Twenty20 World Cup Qualifier competition in the United Arab Emirates took place in September of 2019. After being selected as a reserve for Namibia’s One-Day International (ODI) team in November 2021, he was allowed to participate in the 2021 Namibia Tri-Nation Series.
He was selected to be a member of Namibia’s One-Day International (ODI) team for the United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series in March of 2022. Against Oman, he played his first one-day international match for Namibia on March 6, 2022. At an early stage in their innings, Scotland had difficulties in accumulating runs. When Tangeni Lungameni took the wicket of George Munsey (7), it was in the fourth over that they suffered their first loss of wicket.
Michael Jones, Munsey’s partner, had just begun to demonstrate his batting ability when he was dismissed by Erasmus, an off-spinner. With the assistance of three fours and a six, he was able to score 26 runs off of 20 deliveries. Green, the wicketkeeper, was able to stump Brandon McMullen off Erasmus when he had just scored 19 runs. A leg before wicket from Bernard Scholtz brought an end to Matthew Cross’s innings, where he had only enough time to score one run.
Batting & Fielding Stats
FORMAT | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
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ODIs | 24 | 10 | 4 | 37 | 12* | 6.16 | 69 | 53.62 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
T20Is | 34 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 12* | 14.00 | 9 | 155.55 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
FC | 14 | 25 | 13 | 77 | 19 | 6.41 | 266 | 28.94 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
List A | 46 | 20 | 9 | 51 | 12* | 4.63 | 108 | 47.22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
T20s | 49 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 12* | 16.00 | 11 | 145.45 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 |
Bowling
FORMAT | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ODIs | 24 | 24 | 1074 | 779 | 37 | 6/42 | 6/42 | 21.05 | 4.35 | 29.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
T20Is | 34 | 33 | 594 | 699 | 28 | 3/13 | 3/13 | 24.96 | 7.06 | 21.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
FC | 14 | 21 | 1416 | 824 | 21 | 2/28 | 3/85 | 39.23 | 3.49 | 67.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
List A | 46 | 45 | 1908 | 1433 | 60 | 6/42 | 6/42 | 23.88 | 4.50 | 31.8 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
T20s | 49 | 48 | 840 | 1100 | 36 | 3/13 | 3/13 | 30.55 | 7.85 | 23.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
This is a sentence that has just found a place in the WhatsApp status of a Namibian seaman named Tangeni Lungameni, who is thirty years old. Some people believe that the American poet Charles Bukowski originated with this line. It is an admonition that summarizes Lungameni’s connection with a sport that has brought him to the brink of insanity on several occasions, and now to a World Cup, at long last.
Lungameni began his participation in the sport when he was six years old and worked his way up through the levels of the Namibian team until he was dropped on the eve of the Under-19 World Cup and decided to retire. The journey that followed was a decade-long one that took him from being a community coach to playing 4th XI club cricket to being the head groundsman for Cricket Namibia. Finally, more than ten years after he decided to walk away from the sport, he is allowing himself to pull on the shirt of his country at a World Cup.