{"id":116450,"date":"2025-09-05T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116450\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T14:02:07","slug":"george-munsey-on-form-as-scotland-defeat-namibia-by-55-runs-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/116450\/","title":{"rendered":"George Munsey on form as Scotland defeat Namibia by 55 runs in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George Munsey&#8217;s 59 runs helped Scotland defeat Namibia in a rain-shortened World Cup League 2 ODI in King City, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Opener Munsey, whose haul of 84 was pivotal in Sunday&#8217;s win over Canada, was eventually bowled by Ruben Trumpelmann.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brandon McMullen, Tom Bruce, Michael Leask and Mark Watt all added tallies of double figures as Namibia were set a target of 165.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chris Greaves took three wickets and Brad Currie and Safyaan Sharif took two each as Scotland restricted their opponents to 109 all out and won by 55 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zane Green top scored for Namibia with 27, closely followed by JJ Smit on 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Doug Watson&#8217;s side play hosts Canada again at the Maple Leaf North-West Ground on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Munsey&#8217;s 59 runs helped Scotland defeat Namibia in a rain-shortened World Cup League 2 ODI in King&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-116450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}