Scotland ensured victory in their T20 series against Namibia thanks to a superb bowling display from seamer Mackenzie Jones.<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old Essex bowler took four wickets for 22 runs in his four overs as Scotland comfortably defended their total of 157-8. <\/p>\n
The Scots now have an unassailable 2-0 lead before Saturday’s third and final match.<\/p>\n
The hosts won the toss in Windhoek and having stuck Scotland in to bat, got off to an ideal start as Ruben Trumpelmann dismissed opener Finlay McCreath for a first-ball duck.<\/p>\n
The Scots failed to have any partnership greater than 30 in their innings, but cameos from Brandon McMullen (27), debutant wicketkeeper Owen Gould (24) and Jack Jarvis (32*) helped them post a competitive total.<\/p>\n
With the ball, Jarvis and Safyaan Sharif were both expensive, but the introduction of Jones swung the momentum in Scotland’s favour.<\/p>\n
He removed Jan Frylinck and Nicol Loftie-Eaton before George Munsey ran out Louren Steenkamp to leave Namibia 57-3.<\/p>\n
Left-arm spinner Olly Davidson also bowled superbly, conceding a measly 14 runs from his four overs, and pinned Alex Volschenk lbw for Scotland’s fourth wicket.<\/p>\n
Captain Gerhard Erasmus batted nicely for his 47, but when he spliced a Jones bouncer to Munsey, Namibia’s hopes of victory went with him and Scotland closed out the game for a comfortable win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland ensured victory in their T20 series against Namibia thanks to a superb bowling display from seamer Mackenzie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-536890","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\/536890","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=536890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}