{"id":116069,"date":"2021-08-14T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116069"},"modified":"2021-08-14T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T12:01:31","slug":"david-wiese-to-represent-namibia-in-t20-world-cup-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116069","title":{"rendered":"David Wiese to represent Namibia in T20 World Cup 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Wiese-Namibia.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Former South African all-rounder David Wiese will be representing Namibia in the upcoming T20 World Cup 2021. Namibia&#8217;s national coach Pierre de Bruyn confirmed the news in a recent interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David Wiese joined Sussex on a three-year Kolpak deal in January 2017 after being ignored by the national selectors.<\/p>\n<p>He wore South Africa jersey for the last time against Sri Lanka in the 2016 T20 World Cup match at Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium, Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Pierre de Bruyn explained that David Wiese is eligible to play for Namibia as his father was born in the country. De Bruyn expressed his excitement at having a veteran of 255 T20 games to be representing Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDavid&#8217;s dad was born here, so he&#8217;s eligible to play for Namibia. He&#8217;s playing in the T20 Blast in England, but will join us after that and is also available going forward after the World Cup, so I&#8217;m super excited about that,&#8221; Bruyn was quoted as saying by The Namibian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His team, Sussex are in the quarterfinals so we must see how far he gets there, but I hope he will be able to join for the Free State trip at least,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Wiese\u00a0featured in six ODIs and 20 T20Is for the Proteas, scoring a total of 194 runs and picking up 33 wickets in international cricket.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wiese-swaps-south-africa-for-sussex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiese swaps South Africa for Sussex<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Former South African all-rounder David Wiese will be representing Namibia in the upcoming T20 World Cup 2021. Namibia&#8217;s national coach Pierre de Bruyn confirmed <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116069\" title=\"David Wiese to represent Namibia in T20 World Cup 2021\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116071,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116069\/revisions\/116071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}