{"id":615578,"date":"2026-04-18T18:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615578\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:30:12","slug":"namibia-hit-last-ball-six-to-beat-scotland-after-george-munsey-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615578\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia hit last-ball six to beat Scotland after George Munsey hundred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Namibia&#8217;s Dylan Leicher struck a final-ball six as the hosts beat Scotland by four wickets in the final match of their T20 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scots had already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and looked on course for a clean sweep when George Munsey&#8217;s brutal 108 powered them to 186-4 from their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-handed opener reached three figures from just 59 balls &#8211; his third in this format for Scotland &#8211; striking eight fours and seven sixes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow opener Finlay McCreath made 25, while Matthew Cross whacked 23 not out off only eight deliveries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Namibia flew out of the blocks in reply &#8211; Louren Steenkamp blasted 25 off 12 balls before being dismissed by Mackenzie Jones, while Jan Frylinck top-scored with 78 off 53 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two quick wickets stymied Namibia&#8217;s progress and they were left needing 16 off the final over with influential captain Gerhard Erasmus still at the crease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jasper Davidson had Alex Volschenk caught behind and then removed Erasmus after a six the ball before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Namibia required nine off the last two balls, but Davidson bowled a no-ball before Leicher scrambled two then cleared the ropes to seal a dramatic win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Namibia&#8217;s Dylan Leicher struck a final-ball six as the hosts beat Scotland by four wickets in the final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-615578","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\/615578","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=615578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}