Namibia star Burger unfazed by prospect of heavy defeat

NAMES like Kees Lensing and Jacques Burger will mean little or nothing to the vast majority of Irish rugby fans this morning.

But if Namibia even so much as extend Ireland in tomorrow night’s World Cup Pool D game at Stade Chaban Delmas in Bordeaux, then they may become very familiar indeed.

Lensing, who plays Currie Cup in South Africa with the Natal Sharks, resisted overtures from the Springboks a few years ago, preferring to stay with Namibia, while Burger is set to join the seemingly never ending exodus of Southern Hemisphere players to Europe after the World Cup when he links up with second division French team Stade Aurillacois.