Tangeni Lungameni
Tangeni Lungameni is a Namibian international cricketer who made his debut for the Namibian national team in January 2016. He is a left-arm pace bowler.
Lungameni is from Gobabis, but moved to Windhoek to attend Windhoek Technical School. He spent two seasons as a member of the Namibia under-19s team, including at the 2011 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier, and made his debut for Namibia A in July 2015, against Botswana. Lungameni made his senior debut for Namibia in January 2016, in a Sunfoil 3-Day Cup match against Gauteng. Later in the 2015–16 season, he also made appearances in the Provincial 50-Over Challenge and the Provincial T20 Challenge. Lungameni's international debut came in April 2016, when he played in an ICC Intercontinental Cup match against Afghanistan. Outside of playing cricket, he works as Cricket Namibia's head groundsman, having replaced Wynand Louw in the position. Lungameni is one of the few black players to play at a high level in Namibia.
In August 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2018 Africa T20 Cup. In October 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad in the Southern sub region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Africa Qualifier tournament in Botswana. On 29 October 2018, in the match against Mozambique, he took a hat-trick.
In March 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament. In May 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the Regional Finals of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier tournament in Uganda. He made his Twenty20 International debut for Namibia against Ghana on 20 May 2019.
In June 2019, he was one of twenty-five cricketers to be named in Cricket Namibia's Elite Men's Squad ahead of the 2019–20 international season. In August 2019, he was named in Namibia's One Day International squad for the 2019 United States Tri-Nation Series. In September 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
