{"id":392645,"date":"2026-01-27T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:42:18","slug":"ireland-cricket-irish-defeat-namibia-in-twenty20-world-cup-qualifying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392645\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland cricket: Irish defeat Namibia in Twenty20 World Cup qualifying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland hammered Namibia by eight wickets to win their final Twenty20 Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifying group match in Kathmandu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Namibia won the toss and elected to bat but three wickets each from Aimee Maguire and Lara McBride helped Ireland restrict their total to 107-8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland needed just 14.1 overs to overhaul that total as Gaby Lewis hit 33 and Orla Prendergast&#8217;s good form continued with 39.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Progression to the Super Six stage had already been secured prior to the game and the Irish finished Group A with three wins from four matches. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland won their first two matches against Papa New Guinea and the USA, before a narrow loss to Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top three teams from each group qualified for the Super Six Stage and the four best teams will progress to the T20 World Cup in England in June. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ireland open their Super Six bid against Scotland on Wednesday, 28 January and will also face the Netherlands on Friday and Thailand on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland hammered Namibia by eight wickets to win their final Twenty20 Women&#8217;s World Cup qualifying group match in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-392645","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\/392645","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=392645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}