van Vuuren misses Ireland clash

Rudi van Vuuren’s hope of becoming the first player to appear in both the rugby and cricket world cups in a single year is on hold after the Namibian fly-half was ruled out of Sunday’s Pool A encounter with Ireland at Aussie Stadium.

Van Vuuren is struggling to overcome a calf strain which kept him out of the African’s 67-14 defeat to Argentina last Tuesday and now faces a race against time to get himself back to full fitness for the remainder of Namibia’s four-match group program.