{"id":193388,"date":"2025-10-11T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193388\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:57:07","slug":"namibia-beat-south-africa-by-four-wickets-in-historic-first-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193388\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia beat South Africa by four wickets in historic first meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Namibia completed a historic four-wicket T20 win over neighbours South Africa in the first meeting between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a one-off 20-over match to mark the opening of the new Namibia Cricket Ground in Windhoek, Gerhard Erasmus&#8217; side needed 11 runs off the final over to chase 135.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zane Green, who top-scored with an unbeaten 30 off 23 balls, struck Andile Simelane&#8217;s first delivery for six before running four off the next three balls alongside Ruben Trumpelmann to level the scores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A dot ball took the match down to the final delivery, which Green hit over mid-wicket for four to secure a memorable win for the Associate nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa were fielding something of a makeshift side with a number of key players in Pakistan for an upcoming Test series, but did welcome back wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock for his first international appearance since June 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, his comeback lasted just four balls as he was caught by Trumpelmann off Erasmus for one in the opening over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wickets fell at regular intervals as the Proteas were reduced to 82-6 in the 13th over, including a middle-order collapse where they lost three wickets for 13 runs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Jason Smith, top-scoring with 31 (30), held the innings together with the lower order before Gerald Coetzee&#8217;s late flourish pushed them to 134-8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Namibia completed a historic four-wicket T20 win over neighbours South Africa in the first meeting between the two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193388","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=193388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}