Helao Nafidi Ya France is a Namibian

Demographics of Namibia

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 cricket

Cricket

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er. He is known by his nickname Picky (Pikky in Afrikaans

Afrikaans

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). Ya France is a left-handed batsman who bowls right-arm slow

Spin bowling

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. He was born in Windhoek

Windhoek

Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level. The 2001 census determined Windhoek's population was 233,529...

, Khomas Region

Khomas Region

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Having played Youth One Day Internationals for Namibia Under-19 cricket team, who he represented in the 2008 Under-19s Cricket World Cup, Ya France made his debut for the senior team

Namibia national cricket team

The Namibia cricket team is the team that represents the country of Namibia in international cricket matches. It is governed by Cricket Namibia, an associate member of the International Cricket Council since 1992 and became part of the High Performance Program in 2007. They took part in the 2003...

 in the 2010/11 CSA Provincial Three-Day Competition against Gauteng, playing a further first-class

First-class cricket

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 match against Northerns

Northerns cricket team

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. These remain his only first-class appearances for Namibia. Ya France made his List A debut in the 2010/11 CSA Provincial One-Day Competition against Gauteng, his only List A appearance to date.

He was selected as part of Namibia's squad for the 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Two

2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Two

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, but he did not feature in any of the matches.

External links

• Pikky Ya France at ESPNcricinfo
• Pikky Ya France at CricketArchive
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