New Delhi, February 11 Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus on Wednesday made a slight remark to the organizers for not scheduling their training sessions at night before their T20 World Cup match against India under lights.
Namibia had played a day game against the Netherlands on Monday, and both their training sessions on the following two days were held during the day. India, on the other hand, had trained at night twice in the lead-up to the match.
Considering that Namibia does not have the infrastructure for day-night games at home, they would have welcomed some time under lights before the match against India on Thursday.
"Yes, we haven't been given a night training session before this game. I don't know why. I think India has two night training sessions, and I see outside that Canada will have one now, so make of that what you want, but we'll just show up and do our Namibian way, which is to fight," Erasmus said.
Canada, who will play the UAE in an afternoon game here on Friday, also trained alongside the Indian team at the Feroz Shah Kotla. This did not go unnoticed by Erasmus.
"We don't have any floodlights in Namibia... for day/night games. Infrastructure-wise, it's probably the biggest challenge for us. So, it's not a casual thing for guys who don't have experience..."
"I think, barring the guys who played in the Nepal Premier League and the ILT20 and the World Cups that we've played, you don't really get used to playing under lights and training under them very often," Erasmus added.
Namibia lost their opening game against the Netherlands and will face USA and Pakistan in their remaining league fixtures. Both of these games are scheduled to start at 3 pm.
