South Africa ease to comfortable ODI series victory against Namibia

[p]Esterhuizen scored 119 as [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/south-africa/tUhlKzIm/"]South Africa[/a] were ‌put into bat and compiled 335-9 in their 50 overs before dismissing their ‌hosts for 178 at the [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/namibia/8hqsGqUb/"]Namibia[/a] Cricket ⁠Ground in ‌Windhoek.[/p][p]Esterhuizen and Tony de Zorzi, who made ​79 runs, put on 183 runs for the second wicket to ​lay the foundation for their team's success while Namibia quick Jack Brassell took ⁠4-64.[/p][p]In reply, ​Namibia's opening three batsmen were dismissed without scoring and they were teetering at 32-5 in the 11th over before captain ‌Gerhard Erasmus offered some resistance, scoring 68. But they were dismissed with 8.1 overs remaining, well short of the target.[/p][embed guid="9684adb4-6b2e-4714-b8d5-5ccfd62ea09b" url="https://x.com/ProteasMenCSA/status/2098430554035085708" social-type="twitter" /][p]South Africa's opening bowlers Duan Jansen (4-31) and Ethan Bosch (3-27) did the early damage.[/p][p]The visitors also had a comfortable victory in their first meeting on ‌Wednesday, winning by 99 runs on ​the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in a rain-affected ‌clash.[/p][p]The two countries, who are co-hosting next year's World Cup along with [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/zimbabwe/pCUnmKBm/"]Zimbabwe[/a], will on Sunday complete the last game of their first-ever ODI ⁠series against each ⁠other.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/cricket/namibia-8hqsGqUb/south-africa-tUhlKzIm/?mid=xl7oYzlD"]Check out the scorecard here[/a][/b][/p]