Tangeni Lungameni (born 17 April 1992) is a

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n international

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er who made his debut for the Namibian national team in January 2016. He is a left-arm pace bowler.

Career

Lungameni is from

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, but moved to

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to attend Windhoek Technical School.Andreas Kathindi (6 April 2015)
"Staying grounded with Tangeni Lungameni"
– Lela. Retrieved 10 April 2016. He started playing cricket at the age of six. 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

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. For

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, he was not included in the squad. After getting dropped, he quit cricket for a while. In 2013, he joined the Windhoek High School Old Boys Cricket Club, on request of Francois Erasmus who was then president of

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, and played for 4th XI of the club. Later, he became a community coach and then a head groundsman for

. In January 2016, Lungameni made his senior debut for Namibia, in a Sunfoil 3-Day Cup match against

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(a South African provincial team). 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

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match against

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. Outside of playing cricket, he works as

'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

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, he took a

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. In March 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the

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tournament. In May 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the Regional Finals of the

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tournament in Uganda. He made his

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(T20I) debut for Namibia against

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on 20 May 2019. In June 2019, he was one of twenty-five cricketers to be named in

's Elite Men's Squad ahead of the 2019–20 international season. In August 2019, he was named in Namibia's One Day International (ODI) squad for the 2019 United States Tri-Nation Series. In September 2019, he was named in Namibia's squad for the

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tournament in the United Arab Emirates. In November 2021, he was named as a reserve in Namibia's One Day International (ODI) squad for the

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. In March 2022, he was named in Namibia's ODI squad for the 2022 United Arab Emirates Tri-Nation Series. He made his ODI debut on 6 March 2022, for Namibia against

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