Namibia win home qualifier
The Welwitschias of Namibia beat the Elephants of Côte d’Ivoire 54-14 at Hage Geingob Rugby Stadium in Windhoek on Saturday to move a step closer to qualifying for the World Cup in New Zealand 2011. This was a second-round match after the teams had drawn 13-all in Abidjan, an unpleasant match.
Namibia now need to beat Tunisia to get to New Zealand.
At half-time, before a small crowd, Namibia lead 16-9.
The second half was almost one-way traffic. Namibian fullback Chrysander Botha scored 29 points for his side, including two tries.
It was not always a pleasant match with a yellow card for prop Marius Visser And a red card for prop Johnny Redelinghuys of Namibia and a yellow card for No.8 Bakary Meite who had it upgraded top a red card.
One of the Namibians, André de Klerk, who came on as a replacement for the second time, is a schoolboy.
Scorers:
For Namibia:
Tries: Botha 2, Van Wyk, Jantjies, Van Zyl Du Plessis, Burger
Cons: Botha 5
Pens: Botha 3
Côte d’Ivoire:
Try: Diomande
Pens: Oulouma 3
Teams
Namibia: 15 Chrysander Botha, McGrath van Wyk, Piet van Zyl, David Philander, Llewellyn Winckler, Jacky Bock, Jurie van Tonder, Tinus du Plessis, Jacques Burger, Jacques Nieuwenhius, Wacca Kazombiaze, Nico Esterhuizen, Marius Visser, Hugo Horn, Kees Lensing (captain).
Replacements: 16 Shaun Esterhuizen, 17 Johnny Redelinghuis, 18 André de Klerk, 19 PJ van Lill, 20 Eugene Jantjies, 21 Emile Wessels, 22 Tinus Venter.
Côte d’Ivoire: 15 Loius Kouadio, 14 Bedel Dogoui, 13 Sydney Edouard, 12 Laurent Diomande, 11 Sydney Djiropo, 10 Jean-M Oulouma, 9 Mohamed Dembele, 8 Bakary Meite, 7 Gaoussou Dao, 6 Serge Jouve, 5 Issa Meite, 4 Franck Acho, 3 Edgar Babou (captain), 2 Olivier Diomande, 1 Marc Yoboue.
Replacements: 16 Ibrahima Konate, 17 Guy Pacome Yavo, 18 Kinafo Palo Diabate, 19 Claude Kouakou, 20 Diack Gassama, 21 Tidiane Kamara, 22 Landry Tian
Referee: Craig Joubert
Assistant referees: Joey Salmans, Stefan Breytenbach
