{"id":533297,"date":"2026-04-16T01:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533297\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T01:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:58:13","slug":"t20-series-scotland-chase-160-to-beat-namibia-in-convincing-fashion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/533297\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 Series: Scotland chase 160 to beat Namibia in convincing fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland started their T20 series against Namibia in convincing fashion as they chased down 160 with seven balls to spare in Windhoek. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having won the toss and opted to bat, the hosts slumped to 94-6 as seamer Jasper Davidson and left-arm spinner Mark Watt both took two wickets while bowling economically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Namibia hauled themselves to a competitive total of 159-7 thanks to 54 from captain Gerhard Erasmus and a powerful late cameo from Jan Balt, who hit an unbeaten 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Louren Steenkamp &#8211; who struck 67 in Sunday&#8217;s ODI between these sides &#8211; was dismissed for 27 to provide Scotland debutant Zainullah Ihsan a first international wicket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In reply, openers George Munsey (44) and Finlay McCreath (16) got off to a quick start in the powerplay and the tourists never ceased control in their run chase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Off the back of a supreme hundred on Sunday, Brandon McMullen struck an unbeaten 44 to guide his team home, supported by 34 from captain Richie Berrington on his 350th Scotland appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Berrington fell to a superb one-handed catch on the square-leg boundary by Ruben Trumpelmann, but wicketkeeper Matthew Cross struck the winning runs with two into the off-side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are two further matches in the series, on Friday and Saturday (both 13:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland started their T20 series against Namibia in convincing fashion as they chased down 160 with seven balls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533297","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\/533297","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=533297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}