ASTON Villa eased the pressure on under-fire boss Steven Gerrard with a 1-0 win over Southampton on Friday as the Premier League returned following the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
SRI Lanka's Dushmantha Chameera and Lahiru Kumara will travel to Australia for the T20 World Cup in a squad largely unchanged from the island nation's surprise Asia Cup win, selectors said Friday.
THE United Arab Emirates did not qualify for the Qatar World Cup but it will be a winner anyway if an overspill of fans floods its hotels, restaurants and planes.
SEPTEMBER is suicide awareness and prevention month, and former Miss Namibia 2018 Selma Kamanya is sharing her thoughts on the topic on Instagram.
AWARD-WINNING musician and entrepreneur Monica 'Top Cheri' Pineas has taken it upon herself to help nurture young creative entrepreneurs by coming up with a Kiddies Concert and Play Day.
ORGANISERS of Burna Boy's 'Love, Damini' tour stop in Namibia have released the local line-up for the 25 September show, and music fans can prepare themselves for a night like no other.
THE Namibia Competition Commission (NaCC) has approved of Heineken buying out the O&L Group in NBL Investments, subject to seven conditions, including no retrenchments, and the establishment of a small businesses development fund, among others.
THE petroleum commissioner in the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Maggy Shino, says tens of billions of dollars in new investments are needed if the country is to move from being an oil discoverer to an oil producer.
SOME professions, like auto electrics and motor mechanics, have long been regarded as the preserve of men.
Betty Higoam (23) has, however, broken into the male-dominated industry and believes she could currently be the only woman in Windhoek in this trade.
Zac Crawley in action for England. AFP
ENGLAND hammered South Africa by nine wickets in the third and deciding Test at the Oval on Monday, completing a remarkable 2-1 series win in just over two days of action.
ENGLAND hammered South Africa by nine wickets in the third and deciding Test at the Oval on Monday, completing a remarkable 2-1 series win in just over two days of action.
The home side, who resumed on 97-0, needed just 5.3 more overs to reach a victory target of 130, with Zak Crawley hitting the winning runs to finish 69 not out.
England have now won six of their seven Tests under their dynamic new leadership pairing of captain Ben Stokes and coach Brendon McCullum.
It is a dramatic turnround in fortunes for the side that had managed just one victory in their previous 17 matches.
"It has been very pleasing to be able to captain this side," Stokes told the BBC. "The lads' mindset and attitude towards the whole summer has been fantastic.
"The fact that different people have put their hand up and done something at different times in the Test matches has been great."
McCullum, who became England red-ball coach in May just two weeks after Stokes replaced Joe Root as skipper, praised his players for buying into the new attacking approach.
"The way the guys have brought into the style that the captain has asked for, a style that is authentic to him, and the way he leads," he said.
"And while the results have been fantastic, the mentality shift has been quite amazing. It has been something quite special to be a part of to be honest."
Defeat means South Africa have suffered their first Test series loss since Dean Elgar took over as captain last year.
The skipper said the tourists were disappointed with the outcome after winning the first match of the series by an innings.
"The way we started at Lord's made us think that momentum would be on our side but it turned quickly at Manchester and it was tough to get the momentum back on our side again," he said.
"We are quietly disappointed at the end of the day."
England resumed just 33 runs shy of their target after the umpires had halted play on Sunday because of bad light, to the disappointment of a capacity crowd.
Alex Lees was 32 not out and Crawley unbeaten on 57 -- his first fifty in 17 Test innings -- when play started Monday under sunny skies but in front of a handful of spectators, who had been let in for free.
Lees, having added just two to his overnight score, was dropped off the third ball of the day when he edged Kagiso Rabada, only for diving wicketkeeper Kyle Verreynne to floor the chance.
The batsman's luck ran out, however, when he was judged lbw on review to Rabada for 39, with South Africa at least spared the embarrassment of a 10-wicket defeat.
Crawley hit the winning runs when he punched left-arm quick Marco Jansen through the covers for four -- the 12th boundary of his innings, with Ollie Pope 11 not out.
It meant for the third time this series, a match was won inside three days' playing time.
Thursday's play was washed out completely before Friday's scheduled second day was abandoned as a mark of respect following the death of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
Fast bowlers on both sides dominated a series in which runs were hard to come by, with South Africa, who boast a world-class pace attack but a fragile top order, managing just one individual fifty -- opener Sarel Erwee's 73 in their innings-and-12-run win in the first Test at Lord's.
England bounced back to win the second Test at Old Trafford by an innings and 85 runs.
Seamer Ollie Robinson was named player-of-the-match at the Oval for his career-best 5-49 in South Africa's first innings.
England earlier this season hammered New Zealand 3-0 before beating India in a Test postponed from last year over coronavirus concerns. - AFP
Please enter your email and password:
Please enter your details here:
Your login was unsuccessful. Please try again!
Your password has successfully been changed!
Your password has not been changed! Please try again.
Your registration was succsessful! You will receive an email from The Namibian. Please verify this registration by opening the link in this email.
The Email already exists in our database. Please continue to log in!
An error occured. Please try again!
Your profile has been updated!
Your profile has not been updated! Please try again.
Submit your email address to get a new password via email:
Your password has been reset! You will receive an email from The Namibian with your new password. You can change this password after you logged in.
Your registration validation was succsessful! Please continue to log in.
Your registration validation was not succsessful! Please try again.
Your vote has been submitted!
You already voted in this Poll!
Your vote was not submitted. Please try again!
Your comment could not be loaded. Please try again!
Your comment has been submitted!
Search for articles & photographs since 2022-08-17
42 John Meinert Street, Windhoek, Namibia,
© 2015 The Namibian All rights reserved.