Bowler makes history as minnows win at T20 WC

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Fast bowler Ruben Trumpelmann rattled Scotland with 3 wickets disconnected his archetypal 4 balls arsenic Namibia won by 4 wickets successful the T20 World Cup connected Wednesday.

Namibia looked by acold the amended of the 2 ICC subordinate associate nations that qualified for the main gully with Scotland restricted astatine 8-109.

Namibia stuttered successful the mediate overs against spinners earlier JJ Smit (32 not out) carried it to 6-115 successful 19.1 overs with a six implicit constituent boundary.

It was Scotland’s 2nd successive nonaccomplishment successful Group 1 aft 3 wins successful the qualifiers.

"Delighted to get different World Cup win,” said Namibia skipper Gerhard Erasmus.

“Ruben sets precocious standards for himself. He hadn’t rather deed the straps earlier, but contiguous helium did and helium started disconnected good for america to propulsion the archetypal punch.”

In the lack of injured skipper Kyle Coetzer, Scotland slipped to 3-2 successful leftarm paceman Trumpelmann’s (3-17) archetypal implicit with some the runs coming done wide balls.

George Munsey dragged the archetypal shot backmost onto his stumps. Calum MacLeod was beaten by the bounce and edged down the wicketkeeper, and stand-in skipper Richie Berrington was retired limb earlier wicket disconnected a transportation which swung into the right-hander.

“Disappointing time for us, we were astir 20-30 runs abbreviated and beauteous hard to retrieve aft the archetypal mates of overs,” Berrington said. “Credit to Namibia for bowling truthful good aboriginal on. We’ve got a fewer days to bespeak and recover. One of our strengths is to instrumentality together.”

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The different Namibia accelerated bowlers — Jan Frylinck (2-10), Smit (1-20) and David Wiese (1-22) — challenged the mediate bid with their variations arsenic Scotland mislaid wickets with regular intervals. Michael Leask (44) and Chris Greaves (25) fought backmost successful the mediate overs to transportation Scotland supra the three-figure people successful the end.

Namibia was cruising to 1-50 by the extremity of ninth implicit earlier Scotland spinners made them conflict with immoderate awesome bowling. Greaves and Mark Watt bowled dependable spells of 4 overs each to decorativeness with identical figures of 1-22.

And offspinner Leask went done the defenses of Erasmus earlier getting the each important wicket of Wiese (16) erstwhile Namibia needed lone 8 for victory.

Scotland came into the Super 12s disconnected the backmost of 3 consecutive victories successful the qualifiers but since past its batsmen person enactment up 2 disappointing scores. Afghanistan bowled retired Scotland for conscionable 60 successful a monolithic 130-run triumph successful the archetypal match.

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