Adri van der Merwe (born 6 June 2002) is a Namibian

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er. She made her

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(WT20I) debut for the Namibia women's cricket team on 20 August 2018, against

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, in the

2018 Botswana Cricket Association Women's T20I Series The 2018 Botswana Cricket Association Women's T20I Series was a Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket tournament held in Gaborone, Botswana from 20 to 25 August 2018. The participants were the women's national sides of Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, ...

. It was the first WT20I match to be played by Namibia. In August 2019, she was named in Namibia's squad for the

2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier The 2019 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier was an international women's cricket tournament that was held in August and September 2019 in Scotland. It was the fourth edition of the Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier and was the qualification tour ...

tournament in Scotland. She played in Namibia's opening match of the tournament, on 31 August 2019, against

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. In May 2021, she was named in Namibia's squad for the 2021 Kwibuka Women's T20 Tournament in Rwanda. Following the conclusion of the tournament, she was named in the team of the tournament, selected by the

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* 2002 births Living people Namibian women cricketers Namibia women Twenty20 International cricketers Sportspeople from Swakopmund {{Namibia-cricket-bio-stub