{"id":28502,"date":"2026-04-20T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/namibia-hit-last-ball-six-to-beat-scotland-after-george-munsey-hundred\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:43:03","slug":"namibia-hit-last-ball-six-to-beat-scotland-after-george-munsey-hundred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/namibia-hit-last-ball-six-to-beat-scotland-after-george-munsey-hundred\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia hit last-ball six to beat Scotland after George Munsey hundred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Namibia&#8217;s Dylan Leicher struck a final-ball six as the hosts beat Scotland by four wickets in the final match of their T20 series.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scots had already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and looked on course for a clean sweep when George Munsey&#8217;s brutal 108 powered them to 186-4 from their 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The left-handed opener reached three figures from just 59 balls &#8211; his third in this format for Scotland &#8211; striking eight fours and seven sixes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow opener Finlay McCreath made 25, while Matthew Cross whacked 23 not out off only eight deliveries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Namibia flew out of the blocks in reply &#8211; Louren Steenkamp blasted 25 off 12 balls before being dismissed by Mackenzie Jones, while Jan Frylinck top-scored with 78 off 53 balls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two quick wickets stymied Namibia&#8217;s progress and they were left needing 16 off the final over with influential captain Gerhard Erasmus still at the crease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jasper Davidson had Alex Volschenk caught behind and then removed Erasmus after a six the ball before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Namibia required nine off the last two balls, but Davidson bowled a no-ball before Leicher scrambled two then cleared the ropes to seal a dramatic win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cx29d4w8lg8o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s Dylan Leicher struck a final-ball six as the hosts beat Scotland by four wickets in the final match of their T20 series. The Scots had already taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series and looked on course for a clean sweep when George Munsey&#8217;s brutal 108 powered them to 186-4 from their 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28504,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28502\/revisions\/28504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}