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 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.

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