Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nIreland fell 2-1 behind in their five-match one-day international series against Namibia as they lost the third meeting between the sides by 63 runs in Windhoek on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Curtis Campher’s century proved insufficient for the tourists, who were all out for 253 in the 45th over as they attempted to chase down their opponent’s total of 316-7.<\/p>\n
Ireland skipper Paul Stirling was unable to bat after injuring his finger in the field during the home side’s innings.<\/p>\n
Jan Frylinck shone for Namibia as he top-scored with 126 to lay the platform for the victory.<\/p>\n
The sides will meet again on Friday and Sunday as Ireland continue their preparations for next year’s World Cup qualifiers.<\/p>\n
After winning the toss and opting to bat first, opener Louren Steenkamp’s departure for 13 left Namibia 33-1.<\/p>\n
When Malan Kruger (42) lost his wicket, the hosts sat 81-2 but a third-wicket partnership of 101 between Frylinck and captain Gerhard Erasmus (54) got their side back on track to achieve their impressive total.<\/p>\n
Alex Volschenk chipped in with 36, while Campher and Andy McBrine were the pick of the Ireland bowlers with two wickets apiece.<\/p>\n
In response, Ireland struggled at 56-4 before Campher’s 106 off 86 balls put them in with a chance of securing what at one stage looked like an improbable victory.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, their reply fell short however as wickets continued to fall regularly and they were all out with 31 balls of their innings still remaining.<\/p>\n
Bernard Scholtz, Ruben Trumpelmann and Jack Brassell each took two wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third one-day international, Windhoek Namibia 316-7 (50 overs): Frylinck 126, Erasmus 54, Kruger 42, Volschenck 36; McBrine 2-53,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-816064","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\/816064","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=816064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}