Here's what the Namibian all-rounder, the hero of the incident, said

Namibia showed a surprise in the first match of the T20 World Cup. And the hero of this surprise is Jan Frylinck. In the first innings against Sri Lanka, he played a tornado innings of 44 runs off 28 balls with 4 boundaries.

After that, he was also excellent with the ball. The left-handed pacer took 2 wickets with 26 runs in 4 overs.

Frylinck’s all-round performance saw Namibia beat Sri Lanka by 55 runs with 7 balls to spare. Naturally, the man of the match award went to Frylinck.

He was speechless with happiness after getting the player of the match award on the World Cup stage. The Namibian all-rounder said, ‘I am a bit speechless at the moment. I am very excited with joy. We were confident that we can achieve what we have achieved today. I took the pressure off me by hitting a couple of boundaries in the match and later JJ Smith took the pressure off me by hitting a couple of

boundaries. After that I along with Smith delivered a competitive collection to the team.’ About the bowling performance, Frylinck said, “Our bowlers have performed well. The bowlers just bowled as planned. Perfect line length ball and took advantage of their (Lankan batsmen) mistakes.”