Lo-handre Louwrens (born 24 April 1999) is a Namibian

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er. He made his international debut for the

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in August 2019.

Career

He made his first-class debut on 8 October 2015 in the Sunfoil 3-Day Cup tournament. In January 2016, he was named in Namibia's squad for the

2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup The 2016 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament held in Bangladesh from 22 January to 14 February 2016. It was the eleventh edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the second to be held in Ban ...

. He was the leading run-scorer for Namibia in the tournament, with 163 runs. In November 2017, he was named as

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of Namibia's squad for the

2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup The 2018 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament that was held in New Zealand from 13 January to 3 February 2018. It was the twelfth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup, and the third to be hel ...

. He was the leading run-scorer for Namibia in the tournament, with 258 runs. In January 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the

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tournament. In August 2018, he was named in Namibia's squad for the

2018 Africa T20 Cup The 2018 Africa T20 Cup was the fourth and final edition of the Africa T20 Cup, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was held in South Africa in September 2018, as a curtain-raiser to the 2018–19 South African domestic season. Provincial side Kwa ...

. 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

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, he became the first batsman to score a century in the group, scoring 100 from 48 balls. He was the leading run-scorer in the tournament, with 243 runs in six matches. In June 2019, he was one of twenty-five cricketers to be named in

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's Elite Men's Squad ahead of the 2019–20 international season. He made his

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(T20I) debut for Namibia against

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on 23 August 2019 during Botswana's tour of Namibia. He made his

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(ODI) debut on 14 March 2022, for Namibia against

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Louwrens, Lo-handre 1999 births Living people Namibian cricketers Namibia One Day International cricketers Namibia Twenty20 International cricketers People from Keetmanshoop Sportspeople from ǁKaras Region