Brandon McMullen took three wickets and then hit a superb century to lead Scotland to victory over Namibia in World Cup League Two.<\/p>\n
The hosts set a decent target of 198 all out, as the Scots struggled to break the partnership of Louren Steenkamp – who top-scored with 67 – and captain JJ Smit (43).<\/p>\n
The middle-order pair put on 87 before Smit was caught by Michael Leask off the bowling of McMullen. <\/p>\n
After that, Namibia could only put on 22 runs for the fall of four wickets and were all out in 49 overs.<\/p>\n
Scotland’s openers wobbled at the start of their reply, though, and were both out LBW to Ruben Trumpelmann – George Munsey dismissed for a two-ball duck, while Finlay McCreath only managed two from 15 deliveries.<\/p>\n
However, McMullen, who posted figures of 3-47 with the ball, compiled a masterful century before retiring with cramp on exactly 100.<\/p>\n
It takes the 26-year-old past the 2,000-run mark for Scotland and was his fifth ODI century for his country.<\/p>\n
McMullen was assisted by captain Richie Berrington, who scored a notable 43, before Mark Watt and Matthew Cross combined to knock off the remaining 41 runs with 12 overs to spare.<\/p>\n
It is a return to form for the Scots, who were beaten by Oman in the week in a game limited to 20 overs each because of weather conditions.<\/p>\n
The previous two games were both washouts, the first without a ball being bowled and the second after Namibia had racked up a score of 189-9.<\/p>\n
Defending champions Scotland remain second in the World Cup League Two table, having now played four more games than leaders USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon McMullen took three wickets and then hit a superb century to lead Scotland to victory over Namibia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}