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T20 World Cup: Namibia’s teenaged fast bowling sensation Max Heingo said his team will try to keep defending champions India to 180 and not concede 250 when the two sides meet in a Group A clash of 2026 Men’s T20 World Cup at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Thursday.

Namibia will come into the clash against India after losing to Netherlands by seven wickets at the same venue on Tuesday. “No, they're not going to score 250 above against us - not a chance. I'm actually going to detect that maybe if they're scoring high or they're actually going to score maybe like 180 or so. But they won't score 300 against us,” Heingo told IANS in an exclusive interview on the eve of the clash.

With a sell-out crowd expected for Thursday’s clash, Heingo, making his maiden T20 World Cup appearance, felt playing India in their backyard will be overwhelming yet exhilarating. In the run-up to the World Cup, Heingo also picked two wickets each in warm-up games at the BCCI CoE Ground in Bengaluru against Scotland and India A, where he dismissed Priyansh Arya and Vipraj Nigam.