Namibia trash WP

NAMIBIA got their SAA Challenge campaign off to a great start after crushing Western Province by 301 runs on Saturday.

Set an unlikely victory target of 447 runs, WP crumbled against some great bowling by Kola Burger to crash to 168 all out in their second innings. Burger gave a great display of seam bowling to take 5 wickets for 47 runs off 21 overs.It was the second time in the match that Burger had taken five wickets to give him match figures of 10/116.Burger dismissed Alistair Gray (2) and Richard Levi (15) late on Friday to leave WP at 32/2 overnight.Gerrie Snyman got an early breakthrough on Saturday morning, bowling James Kuiper for 15, and wickets continued to fall regularly as Province’s batsmen wilted under the pressure.Only Martin Walters managed to handle Namibia’s bowling and went on to score a fine innings of 75 runs, which included 11 fours from 168 balls, before he was bowled by LP van der Westhuizen.None of their other batsmen could reach double figures as they were all out for 146 to hand Namibia an easy victory.Besides Burger, Namibia’s other wicket takers in the second innings were Gerrie Snyman (1/32), Louis Klazinga (1/20), Craig Williams (2/14) and LP van der Westhuizen (1/1).www.namibiasport.com.naBurger gave a great display of seam bowling to take 5 wickets for 47 runs off 21 overs.It was the second time in the match that Burger had taken five wickets to give him match figures of 10/116.Burger dismissed Alistair Gray (2) and Richard Levi (15) late on Friday to leave WP at 32/2 overnight.Gerrie Snyman got an early breakthrough on Saturday morning, bowling James Kuiper for 15, and wickets continued to fall regularly as Province’s batsmen wilted under the pressure.Only Martin Walters managed to handle Namibia’s bowling and went on to score a fine innings of 75 runs, which included 11 fours from 168 balls, before he was bowled by LP van der Westhuizen.None of their other batsmen could reach double figures as they were all out for 146 to hand Namibia an easy victory.Besides Burger, Namibia’s other wicket takers in the second innings were Gerrie Snyman (1/32), Louis Klazinga (1/20), Craig Williams (2/14) and LP van der Westhuizen (1/1).www.namibiasport.com.na