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West Indies women 85 for 2 (Dottin 39) beat Sri Lanka women 83 for 9 by eight wickets
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Deandra Dottin’s 39 steered West Indies to an easy victory•International Cricket Council

West Indies completed a dominant showing in the Twenty20 leg of the tournament by crushing Sri Lanka in the final with more than nine overs to spare. A series of run-outs undermined Sri Lanka’s batting and they lurched to a measly 83 after choosing to bat. West Indies’ strong batting had few problems knocking off those runs, with Deandra Dottin’s boundary-laden 39 guiding the chase.Sri Lanka’s troubles started in the first over of the match, when opener Inoka Galagedara was bowled for a duck but the other opener Chamari Polgampola helped them to a respectable 48 for 2. Things then fell apart for Sri Lanka, four wickets going down for six runs.No. 6 Dilani Manodara made a patient 19 but with the five batsmen following combining for just 10 runs, West Indies had little to worry about.With such a small total on board, the only chance for Sri Lanka to snatch the title was to bowl out West Indies but the openers, Stafanie Taylor and Juliana Nero, belted 27 runs in the first three overs. Then Dottin smashed five fours and two sixes – the only ones of the match – to ensure the game ended in a hurry.West Indies coach Sherwin Campbell was delighted with the win: “This is our favourite format of the game, the team seem to take to it very easily and I am happy they could produce a win today.”It completes a satisfying series for West Indies who besides being Twenty20 champions also finished runners-up in the one-day leg earlier in the week.

October 24, 2009. Brett Lee joins the Australian team barely 12 hours before the toss for the first ODI of the gruelling seven-match series. Till then, Lee has been occupied in winning New South Wales the Champions League Twenty20. On the day of the match, with Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar threatening a heist with the bat, Lee pulls up sore. End of series.It’s déjà vu in October 2010 in certain ways. Doug Bollinger, after a successful Champions League, arrives here two days before what turns out to be an all-time great Test, bowls impressively in the defence of a modest total, and when he is on absolute fire, running through the Indian batting with his aggression and hostility, he has to pull out because of abdominal pain. After an over in which he bounces Harbhajan Singh out, Bollinger is not available through the rest of the innings.”I actually had him ready to bowl the next over,” Ricky Ponting said later. “I went to grab his hat off him for the start of his next over and he said he’d felt some pain in one of his abdominals, and being a fast bowler and having that sort of injury I just sent him off the ground straight away.”Ponting, captaining an Australian side not dominant any more and hence in need of every resource it can get hold of, didn’t hide his disappointment last year. He is not hiding it this year.”It would have been nice to have another fast bowler to rotate through when we needed that breakthrough,” Ponting said. “At that stage, Doug had bowled just the one spell as well, so he would have been nice and fresh. When you are bowling at the tail, you need those strike options. That said, we used five other bowling options, but none of them could give us that result.”Ponting – not obligated, unlike many other international players, to always sing praises for the leagues – and the Australian team management haven’t been a fan of the clashes the various leagues create with national duty, the preparation part more than the actual playing part. They have all been concerned about the late arrivals of Bollinger and Michael Hussey.There is nothing to ensure that Bollinger wouldn’t have been injured had he trained with the Australian team for the last 10 days, but it helps a captain to know that his strike bowler has not been away playing in a private league until two days before a Test.”It probably doesn’t help,” said Ponting of Bollinger’s Champions League commitments. “But he’d been bowling, and that’s one positive for Doug that he’d been playing competitive cricket.”He probably hasn’t been bowling the amount of overs in the Champions League that some of the others have had coming over here, but the facts are that he’s been playing, he arrived a couple of days before the game.”I thought his work before that was very good, I thought his spell today was probably the best he’s bowled during the game, so [it was] disappointing for him to go down at the end there, it hurt us a lot.”

MS Dhoni has made it to ESPNcricinfo’s India all-time XI, beating record-holding wicketkeepers Syed Kirmani and Kiran More, by virtue of his superior batting. Dhoni was picked by seven members of the 11-person jury, which was unanimous in voting Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Gavaskar, Kapil Dev and Vinoo Mankad into the XI.The No. 5 spot divided the jury the most, and Vijay Hazare, who played only eight innings in that position (one of them in the Adelaide Test of 1948, where he made two centuries), was preferred over the likes of Gundappa Viswanath, MAK Pataudi, Dilip Vengsarkar, Mohinder Amarnath and VVS Laxman.The opening positions are taken by Virender Sehwag (10 votes) and Gavaskar, a blend of attack and defence, while the presence of Rahul Dravid (nine votes) and Tendulkar at Nos. 3 and 4 makes India’s the only batting line-up among the eight leading countries, for which ESPNcricinfo has picked all-time XIs, to have over 42,000 Test runs between the top four.Only one bowler from India’s legendary spin quartet of the 70s makes it to the XI. Offspinner Erapalli Prasanna, with 189 wickets in 49 Tests, joins Anil Kumble (nine votes), Javagal Srinath and Kapil to form the bowling line-up. Allrounder Mankad, who took 162 wickets at 32.32 with his slow left-armers, completes the spin-dominated attack.India’s XI is the only one to feature just two fast bowlers. Australia had fast-bowling allrounder Keith Miller to back Dennis Lillee and Glenn McGrath, and South Africa had Mike Procter to help Shaun Pollock and Allan Donald.Among the notable omissions, who did not make it to the XIs of any of the jury members, were former captain Mohammad Azharuddin; Bishan Bedi, perhaps the most highly rated of the spin quartet; and wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer.ESPNcricinfo readers were invited to vote on the shortlists and their XI matched the jury’s in all but one: Laxman was the readers’ choice for No. 5 instead of Hazare.The jury included former Test players Sanjay Manjrekar and Arun Lal, former Mumbai player and coach Vasu Paranjape, sports journalists Pradeep Magazine, Ayaz Memon, R Mohan and Suresh Menon, cricket historian Ramachandra Guha and television commentator Harsha Bhogle.Read more about the XI here.The XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Vijay Hazare, Vinoo Mankad, Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Erapalli Prasanna.Readers’ XI: Sunil Gavaskar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Vinoo Mankad, Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Erapalli Prasanna.NomineesOpeners: Sunil Gavaskar, Vijay Merchant, Virender Sehwag, Navjot Sidhu.Middle order: Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Gundappa Viswanath, Vijay Hazare, MAK Pataudi, Mohinder Amarnath, Polly Umrigar, Sourav Ganguly, CK Nayudu, Mohammad Azharuddin, Dilip Vengsarkar.Allrounders: Kapil Dev, Dattu Phadkar, Vinoo Mankad, Manoj Prabhakar.Wicketkeepers: Naren Tamhane, Kiran More, Syed Kirmani, Nayan Mongia, MS Dhoni.Fast bowlers: Javagal Srinath, Kapil Dev, Zaheer Khan, Mohammad Nissar, Amar Singh.Spinners: Anil Kumble, Bishan Bedi, Erapalli Prasanna, Subhash Gupte, Bhagwath Chandrasekhar, Harbhajan Singh, Dilip Doshi, S Venkataraghavan, Vinoo Mankad.

Azeem Rafiq, the Yorkshire offspinner, has been suspended by his county pending a full investigation after he launched a foul-mouthed rant on Twitter following his omission from the England Under-19 side for the second Test against Sri Lanka at Scarborough.Rafiq, who captained England to a 199-run defeat in the first Test, fired a scathing attack at coach John Abraham after he was omitted for what the ECB called “inappropriate conduct” and Rafiq is now under further investigation by the board.After he was told the news of being dropped Rafiq posted: “What a f***ing farsee … John Abrahams is a useless ****… ECB prove it again what incompetent people are working for them!!”And he hadn’t finished there when he added: “John Abrahams is a useless w****r.”Stewart Regan, Yorkshire’s chief executive said: “Azeem’s behaviour was totally unacceptable and the club will not tolerate it. Our professional players are role models to aspiring young cricketers and need to behave as such. Whilst Azeem has apologised formally to the ECB, the club and the coach in question the club still intend to carry out a full investigation before deciding on what disciplinary action to take. In the meantime, he is suspended on full pay and unavailable for selection.”The ECB are likely to summon Rafiq to Lord’s for a disciplinary hearing, and are considering his future place in the Under-19s.Andrew Strauss was asked about the incident as he prepared for the first Test against Pakistan. He has had experience of a player getting into trouble over Twitter when Tim Bresnan was forced to apologise for a comment he posted during the Champions Trophy last year and Strauss said players, at whatever age, must take responsbility.”What I would say is that if you haven’t led by example and have let yourself down you’ve got to take it on the chin and learn from it,” he said. “For a start players should be aware that what they write on Twitter is going to be seen by people they might not want it to be seen by. We’ve had a number of occasions of that happening, so I’d say to be very careful on that.”The other thing I’d say is that there is a right way to react to things and there is a wrong way and venting your frustration is not the right way to do it especially if you have been in the wrong. You need to take it on the chin and learn from it otherwise there are plenty of other people who can do it better than you.”It isn’t the first time Rafiq has been caught in controversy although the previous occasion was much less his fault. Yorkshire played him in their 2008 Twenty20 Cup quarter-final against Durham without realising he wasn’t properly registered and didn’t hold a British passport.Graeme Swann is the most prolific ‘tweeter’ in English cricket with an avid following and has just about avoided pushing the boundaries too much. James Anderson also tweets regularly and the pair often take part in extensive banter. However, Australia batsman Phil Hughes had less success when he announced he’d been dropped for the third Test of the Ashes last year before the team wanted it revealed to the public.

The ICC is finally ready to implement its anti-doping code, which includes a “modified” whereabouts clause, following negotiations during a year-long stand-off with the BCCI, which had stood by its players’ objections to the clause. Having addressed “a couple of concerns” that were raised by some of the members, the ICC board finally approved the WADA-compliant code at the annual conference in Singapore earlier this month. The ICC believes this regime to be consistent with principles of the WADA code.Players who would be tested will fall under two main pools based on certain criteria: the International Registered Testing Pool (IRTP) and the National Player Pool (NPP). Players who are known offenders or who may be of higher risk will be in the IRTP. Players in the NPP, which comprises 88 internationals (11 from each of the top-eight ODI teams according to the ICC rankings), will need to submit “cricket whereabouts information” rather than that of their personal whereabouts.

IRTP and NPP

International Registered Testing Pool (IRTP) is for players who are known drug offenders or players who are at risk. The players in this pool have to file a comprehensive account of whereabouts information of where they are going to be 365 days a year, one hour slots, and over night residences to name few conditions. Players at risk are those who have had long injury layoffs, or those who were in the lower pool but have had three strikes against them in twelve months. A player earns a strike if he fails to inform WADA of his whereabouts or is not present at the location at the specified time. This pool also includes a player who has been out of the game for three months and, at the end of the three months, if he is injured then he is moved into the IRTP.
The subsidiary pool is called the National Player Pool (NPP), comprising 88 players – 11 from each of the top eight ODI countries. The rankings are reviewed every six months.
Apart from those in the two pools, any international player can be tested out of competition at any time of the year but he is not obliged to file whereabouts information.

“The rules are final. The anti-doping code is in place,” Haroon Lorgat, the ICC chief executive, told Cricinfo in London. “Where we go next is to educate the players and Member Boards because they have the responsibility in terms of filing.”The ICC became a signatory to the WADA code in November 2006 in order to enhance cricket’s credibility as a global sport and to satisfy mandatory requirements for participating in events like the Olympics. However, its members’ adoption of the code hit a roadblock when the BCCI objected to the whereabouts clause.The clause required the 11 players nominated to the international testing pool to reveal to an ICC-nominated officer before every quarter details of their whereabouts for an hour every day for three months to facilitate out-of-competition testing. Top Indian players, including Sachin Tendulkar, raised fears concerning their personal security and refused to sign the code, a move strongly supported by the BCCI. The Indian board then raised its objection to the clause, citing it went against the country’s constitution.During the last year, the whereabouts rules were revised but two more issues needed further clarification and the changes were eventually finalised in Singapore. “Some of the countries were concerned about local involvement by other agencies and did not want to duplicate things,” Lorgat said. “The second issue was the exact definition of injured players.”The Professional Cricketers’ Association has said it approves of the “sensible” new code. “The PCA supports the new proposals which we think are adequate and sensible and which suit the needs of cricket,” chief executive Angus Porter told the .The majority of the players will be in the NPP, where they would be tested exclusively when they are in a team environment – like when on tour, or at a national training camp. “Cricket whereabouts is something where the player can be tested at any given point when he is training, playing, travelling with the team,” Lorgat said. “Instead of the player doing it individually, the team management will do the filing [of whereabouts information] for the player.”When asked if this code was a compromise by the ICC, Lorgat said it was a modification. “I don’t believe it is a compromise. It is a solution to resolve the constitutional issue that India faced, and perhaps they did have genuine security concerns about their top players. It is a modification of the original clause to satisfy the concerns on one front but still consistent with the principles to do out-of-competition testing.”

Azeem Ghumman, who led Pakistan in the Under-19 World Cup that was held in New Zealand this year, has expressed his disappointment at not being picked for the Asia Cup but hopes his recent exploits with the bat are rewarded with a call-up for the tour of England.”Since the Under-19 final I’ve been batting really well so I was expecting to be named in the Asia Cup squad. I’ve helped my teams win several games and I’m one of the most consistent openers in the Pakistani domestic scene.” Ghumman told Cricistan.com. “I’m disappointed at not being picked but not disheartened. The message that I’m taking from this is that I need to work even harder and continue to perform so that I can get a chance for the England tour.”Ghumman delivered consistent performances in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy for Sui Southern Gas Corporation limited, averaging 41.50 as opener in four four-day games with a highest of 183. He was among the top run-getters in the RBS one-day competition, piling 302 runs in four games at 60.40. Under him, Pakistan made the finals of the U-19 World Cup, where they lost to Australia.Ghumman said his prior experience of playing in England would be an asset to the team. “I’ve already played two seasons of cricket in England in 2005 and 2008. So I’m used to the conditions and if I get a chance to open in Test matches then I can really show everyone what I’m capable of. I’d say to the selectors, just give me a chance and I’ll prove that I can be an asset for Pakistan.”Usually an opening batsman, Ghumman dropped down the order during the Under-19 World Cup. Adaptability to any position in the batting order, he said, was something he was comfortable with. “I’m naturally an opener and I love to open the innings, I really enjoy the challenge of facing down the new ball. Despite that, in the Under-19 World cup, I agreed to play out of position and slot into the middle order. This was because we had too many openers in the squad and everyone can’t open the innings, so I agreed to take on the responsibility of batting in the middle order.”The same applies to my selection for the Pakistan team. I’m an opener and it’s my dream to open for Pakistan but I will bat wherever the team needs me.”

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ScorecardLeicestershire reactivated their faltering Friends Provident t20 campaign with a demolition job on Warwickshire at Edgbaston.After three defeats on the bounce, the Foxes stormed back by making 172 for 6 and wrapping up a 32-run victory by dismissing the home side for 140 in 16.5 overs.A chaotic performance by the Bears began when Jonathan Trott was given out, caught low down at cover by James Taylor after TV replay evidence, and continued with substitute Matthew Boyce running out three batsmen. This was all in sharp contrast to Leicestershire’s progress to their highest t20 total this season.Will Jefferson smashed 50 from 31 balls and Brad Hodge top scored with 54 in a throwback to his last Twenty20 fifty for the county in the 2004 final against Surrey at Edgbaston. Rejoining the Foxes for this year’s competition, the Australian had scored only 38 runs in five innings before making 43 against Yorkshire at Grace Road on Sunday.With form restored, he subdued Warwickshire’s attack in successive partnerships of 71 with Jacques du Toit and 73 in eight overs with the hard-hitting Jefferson. The home side may have thought it was a much-needed breakthrough when Tim Ambrose stumped du Toit for 40, but the South African’s departure only exposed them to rougher treatment from Jefferson.The former Essex batsman hit sixes in four consecutive overs before sparking a spate of dismissals when pulling a full toss from Ant Botha to deep square leg. Keith Barker benefited most from the late stumble by taking three wickets, the first when Hodge carved a catch to backward point.Jefferson did not field when Warwickshire began heir reply and his absence worked in Leicestershire’s favour when livewire replacement Boyce ran out Neil Carter, Jim Troughton and Ambrose.Darren Maddy made a quickfire 20 against his former county before adding to the catalogue of errors with an ugly heave to mid-wicket. The lower order attempted to restore some pride as Botha (21), Chris Woakes (15) and Ian Westwood (23) entertained the crowd before falling in quick succession to left-arm spinner Claude Henderson.There was more fun when the last pair, Barker (23 not out) and Imran Tahir (11), put on 33 and took the Bears beyond their previous lowest of total 114 in the competition.

Match Facts

Monday, May 24
Start time 0930 (1330 GMT)Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers added 129 for the third wicket, both going on to register centuries in the first ODI•AFP

The Big Picture

South Africa proved too strong for West Indies once again in the first one-dayer to extend the early success of their tour, with the change in limited-overs format making little difference to the hosts’ fortunes. The architects of South Africa’s win were Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers, both of whom went to centuries and added 129 for the third wicket as the West Indian bowlers failed to make the most of conditions that had plenty to offer the seamers.”It was a terrific effort,” Graeme Smith said after the game. “Hash [Amla] and I got off to a good start and in particular in his partnership with AB – it’s always great to see two guys get hundreds and they deserved the hundreds that they got. They played superbly well.”Chris Gayle was understandably disconsolate after yet another patchy effort. But while it is easy to point out where West Indies got things wrong – the failure of their bowlers to land six balls in a row on the spot and the inability of their batsmen to build partnerships – it is less clear just how they can turn things around.West Indies haven’t been helped by injuries to Kemar Roach and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, and have called in Dale Richards for the second game. Other than that, they are largely stuck with the squad they have for the moment as other potential replacements for an underperforming batting line-up – such as Devon Smith, Darren Bravo and Brendan Nash – are away on tour with the A side, though it is possible they could be drafted in for the fourth and fifth ODIs. While there is undeniable potential talent in the national squad, and one cannot rule out an improved performance in the second game, it seems more likely that South Africa will maintain the gulf in class between the two sides.

Form guide (only completed matches, most recent first)

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Watch out for…

David Miller has eased himself into international cricket with minimum fuss – albeit against a bowling attack that is lolling in the doldrums at the moment. His 33 on debut took South Africa to a winning total when they were looking shaky, and his unbeaten 23 in the first ODI also gave his side’s scoreline a timely boost. In both games, he came in with overs running out at the end of the innings, but if he is given more time he already appears to have the capacity to make a big score.
For a player who has scored 5,092 runs in limited-overs internationals at an average of more than 44, Ramnaresh Sarwan’s performances after his comeback from injury have been disappointing. His captain has made clear his desire for someone in the top order to take the initiative, and after a mediocre start in this series, West Indies desperately need Sarwan back at his stylish best.

Team news

It’s unclear what meaningful changes West Indies might be able to make to their side, but they will want Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Kemar Roach back as soon as they have recovered from their injuries. Failing that, they will have to stick to the team that lost the opening game on Saturday, although there seems little point in asking Andre Fletcher to open at the moment and someone from the middle order – Sarwan, perhaps – may need to step up and fill a temporary role.
West Indies (possible): 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 3 Dwayne Bravo, 4 Narsingh Deonarine, 5 Kieron Pollard, 6 Andre Fletcher, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Darren Sammy, 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Nikita Miller, 11 Ravi RampaulSouth Africa struck a winning combination in the first game, and although they have said that now is the time for a fresh outlook in the side, they will more than likely stick to the successful formula.South Africa (possible): 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Jacques Kallis, 4 AB de Villiers (wk), 5 JP Duminy, 6 David Miller, 7 Johan Botha, 8 Ryan McLaren, 9 Dale Steyn, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Pitch and conditions

The pitch used in the first ODI looked far improved from the mottled, two-paced wicket in the Twenty20s, although there is still something in it for the bowlers. Taking nothing away from Amla and de Villiers’ superb efforts, that South Africa reached 280 was in large part due to inconsistent bowling from West Indies. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance that this game may be affected by the weather, with a high probability of showers in the area.

Stats and trivia

• AB de Villiers has accumulated 486 runs at an average of 121.5 in his last six ODI innings, with his hundred on Saturday his third in consecutive innings, and his fourth in six innings since he reached 121 in the third ODI of England’s winter tour
• At the opposite end of the spectrum, Andre Fletcher’s last innings of note was 48 against Canada in April. Since then, he has made just 55 runs in seven international innings, at an average of 9.17.
  

  Quotes

  “We want to play well, we want to win the series and we want to have a very successful tour of the West Indies.”

  “We need someone out of the top five to take the initiative.”

Both Dwayne Bravo, West Indies’ stand-in captain against Ireland, andtheir matchwinner Darren Sammy believe the local fans can give theteam a vital edge during the World Twenty20. An almost full house atProvidence watched the hosts recover from an uncertain position withthe bat to post a comfortable 70-run victory.The crowd swelled as the opening day of the tournament progressed andby the time West Indies began their innings the stands were packed andnoisy. When the middle order fell away they feared a repeat of thecollapse that cost them the warm-up match against New Zealand, butSammy stepped forward with a 17-ball 30 before capping a fineall-round display with four catches and figures of 3 for 8.”The home advantage will play an important part and once our fans getbehind us it really gets us going,” Bravo said. “They were a bitdisappointed during our warm-up game, but tonight showed we are a muchbetter team than we showed then. I know for the next game againstEngland there will be a bigger crowd still and it’s always important.We can use that to our advantage.”Bravo was handed the captaincy at the last minute when Chris Gaylewithdrew with a muscle strain. For a while it looked to havedestabilised the team, but the home side were very impressive with theball and in the field as they overwhelmed their Associate opposition.”Obviously losing Chris at the beginning was a bit of a setback but Ithink we regrouped well as a team,” Bravo said. “We knew how importantthis game was for us to get off to a winning start. It was great tosee how we played and I’m sure a lot of people will be happy.”We got off to a good start, faltered in the middle and finishedstrongly at the end and that’s the most important thing. Getting over130 with their batting line-up and our bowling attack I would back myteam any day and I knew we were good enough to go and defend thattotal.”There was a far more downbeat assessment from William Porterfield, theIreland captain, who was left knowing this was a chance to notchanother major scalp. Porterfield was caught at second slip off thesecond ball of the innings as Ireland stumbled to 13 for 3 before ashort rain break and there was no way back for them.”It’s not just the fact we lost, but the way we lost especially withthe bat,” he said. “It’s pretty disappointing being bowled out for 68,it doesn’t matter who you are playing against or what conditions werelike. You don’t have any excuses.”The way we bowled and fielded we were right in it after 20 overs so it’sa massive missed opportunity. We were really struggling after thefirst 10 balls losing three wickets and it set us right on the backfoot.”However, he was already looking ahead to Ireland’s next match againstEngland on Tuesday knowing there is still a chance that his team canprogress. “If West Indies pull off a result [against England] then itcomes down to a shoot out between ourselves and England to get intothe Super Eights so there’s still a massive amount to play for.”

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Sarel Burger’s all-round effort helped Namibia brush aside Bermuda’s challenge yet again in Windhoek. Burger hit a quick, unbeaten half-century to shepherd the chase after his three-wicket burst had limited Bermuda to an insufficient 155.Even that moderate score was reached thanks to a generous helping of wides from the Namibia bowlers – 24 of them. Extras was the highest contributor, boosting Bermuda by 30 runs. After the visitors chose to bat, Bermuda progressed to a satisfactory 60 for 2, but the innings unravelled with the quick dismissals of key batsmen David Hemp and Steven Outerbridge.Bermuda lost six wickets for 48 to slide to 108 for 8, and were spared further embarrassment by the ninth-wicket pair of Malachi Jones and Jordan DeSilva, who added 45 in the biggest stand of the innings. As in the previous game, though, Bermuda were unable to play out their full quota of overs, folding up in the 40th.Namibia’s chase was smooth, the only hiccup was the early exit of opener Raymond van Schoor. After that, Gerhard Rudolph and Burger added 57 for the second wicket, before Rudolph was caught behind. That brought in captain Craig Williams, who smashed a 37-ball 49 to finish the game with more than 20 overs to spare.