Pakistan vs Namibia Highlights, T20 World Cup: Sahibzada Farhan's century guides PAK to 102-run win, spot in Super 8s

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Welcome back for the chase! Steenkamp and Frylinck need this powerplay to be a very good one – can't afford wickets. Faheem takes the first over.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Erasmus squeezes out a dot ball on the last ball, and that's that for this innings. Shadab with a flurry of boundaries at the end, Farhan with a very strong knock to act as a backbone.

Namibia need a steep 200 in the second innings. Pakistan will back themselves, but can the African nation give them a scare?

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Farhan becomes the second Pakistani batter to score a T20 World Cup century! Takes a single to bring it up and turns it over to Shadab, who makes it count – tonks two bifgsixes off Gerhard Erasmus. One hit away from 200.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Terrific over from Trumpelmann to execute wide yorkers, not letting Shadab or Farhan get under anything.

Farhan still on 99* and off-strike for the last over. 183/3 with the last one to play. Can Pakistan push on to that 200-mark?

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Just the over Pakistan needed! Brassell has been good today but this over will make a mess of his figures. Gets tonked for a pair of sixes, one each by Farhan and Shadab, and a misfield sees it trickle away for four to make matters worse for him.

177/3 with two overs to play. Farhan on 98*, off-strike.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Much better from Farhan. Is trust his power and ability to get elevation to help Pakistan get the boundaries for a big finish. Clears his front leg and tonks it over the bowler's head for six, onto 80*(49). Needs a few more as Pakistan move to 148/3 off 16.3 – 21 balls left, and Pakistan will want 50-odd minimum from them.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Farhan has been here for a while now and needs to make his time in the middle count. He hasn't been at his most fluent, but this is better as he makes solid contact twice in a row to power the ball to the boundary.

5 overs to play, and Pakistan need to think of getting near that 200 mark to bat Namibia out of the game.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Nafay pushed up to accelerate through the middle overs and hits a couple of boundaries, but not much more! Tries to sweep Erasmus but loses handle on the bat with one hand. No control of it, and slices straight into the air. Erasmus can comfortably settle underneath it and complete the catch.

Still no sign of Babar Azam as Shadab comes in.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: His attempt at being aggressive falls apart! Tries to clear mid-off with a loft, but gets the inside half of the bat. Loops comfortably to mid-off, who accepts it happily. Important wicket for Namibia, and it's another for Brassell.

107/2, 12.1 overs through.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Fine knock from Farhan, reaching a 37-ball half-century. Agha playing the role of the aggressor, tonks a 4 and a 6 back to back to keep the score moving and move Pakistan past the 100 mark.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Farhan approaching his half-century and Agha batting at a good rate too. This is a good foundation on this surface, and Pakistan might be eyeing up 200 from here.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Huge over against the leg-spinner Myburgh! Just what Pakistan needed. Agha first steps down and lofts down the ground for a towering six. Farhan then takes strikes and hammers two massive slog sweeps for maximums. Just the move-on Pakistan needed in this phase.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Namibia ensuring things are quiet, not allowing big overs or leaking boundaries. Scoring rate at just a touch below 7 – can this pressure earn them a mistake?

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Never convincing from Ayub, particularly when he had to deal with width! Brassell in for his second over, slants it across the southpaw, and draws a thin edge. Easily taken by Green with the gloves, and Namibia have their first.

It's 40/1. Game is alive.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Another thick top edge that just clears the wicketkeeper for four more – it has certainly been streaky from Pakistan, who haven't looked too confident. One shot of confidence from Farhan as he clears the leg-side, but Namibia will think they are in this. 31/0 after 4.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Another half-chance as a thick edge evades the wicketkeeper! He gets a fingertip on it as it flashes past him, but can't hold on – enough pace to run away for four. Namibia needed to hold on to that one.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Captain Gerhard Erasmus brings himself on early, spin in the second over. Overpitches on his first ball and Farhan can whack it through the line, beating the extra-cover fielder for the first boundary of the day.

Three balls later, first half-chance, and nearly a screamer at point! Runs backwards and puts in the dive, but the ball just evades him. Ayub survives.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Set to go at the SSC! Farhan and Ayub looking for a quick start. JJ Smit with the first over.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Two changes for each of these teams. Pakistan bench Shaheen and Abrar for Mirza and Khawaja Nafay, while Volschenk and Brassell come in for Namibia.

Namibia: Louren Steenkamp, Jan Frylinck, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Gerhard Erasmus (c), Alexander Volschenk, JJ Smit, Zane Green (wk), Ruben Trumpelmann, Willem Myburgh, Bernard Scholtz, Jack Brassell

Pakistan: Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha (c), Babar Azam, Usman Khan (wk), Khawaja Nafay, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Salman Mirza, Usman Tariq

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: The toss goes Salman Ali Agha ways, who has no hesitation to bat first on a surface that has supported that. Looking for an above par score.

A pair of changes for both teams.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Good news half an hour before the match as the rain stays away. Awaiting news from the toss now, Agha and Erasmus to meet in the middle.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: If Pakistan manage to avoid a loss today, however that may be, they join a very dangerous Y group in the Super 8 stage. Sri Lanka, England, and New Zealand have already qualified, as was expected, and the pre-seeding means Pakistan will be facing off against them. Each of those three teams will back themselves to make it against Pakistan – but they won't be counting their chickens.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: With rain beginning to playa. factor in this phase of a tournament, there's a strong chance today's match will also be affected, with a solid chance of a washout. Pakistan won't particularly mind, but they need some confidence via a win too before the next stage.

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Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: This is a very similar situation to 2024, where Pakistan were beaten to the post by USA – but that was, of course, after the iconic super over in which the hosts were able to get past Pakistan, making it a much more straightforward thing. Those ghosts will haunt them, and it's all about erasing those memories for Salman Ali Agha this time around.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: Namibia haven't managed to get on the board just yet in the tournament, losing all their games thus far. But they won't want to go back home with four losses to their names – a source of inspiration might be Nepal, who yesterday won their last game after losing their first 3. With nothing at stake, Namibia have the chance to go hell-for-leather, something which is rare for associate teams – and that is never an opponent anybody wants to run into.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: In Group A with two matches left, USA have ended up on 4 points with two wins and two losses. Pakistan, with a game in hand, are also on 4 points, having beaten Netherlands and USA, but being demolished by India. That heavy loss leaves them with a NRR of -0.403, while USA sit on +0.788.

One of the two teams will progress – it's in Pakistan's hands whether they make it through.

Pakistan vs Namibia LIVE Cricket Score: With seven out of eight spots in the Super 8 booked, it comes down to either Pakistan or the USA emerging from Group A. Tied on points, a win for Pakistan today will be enough to send them through – but if spirited Namibia manage to pull off an upset, wow, this tournament will truly come alive. Big implications for this one, stay tuned.