Namibia coach Hakkies Husselman has named the side that will face Ireland in Bordeaux on Sunday, pulling out his big guns for the Rugby World Cup opener.

Kees Lensing will lead a side that features six players with RWC experience for the clash at Stade Chaban-Delmas.

Lensing, who stands 6ft 3in tall and weighs more than 20 stones, spent a season at Guinness Premiership clubs Leeds before leaving when they were relegated in 2006.

The Sharks of South Africa paid big money to take him back to the Super 14 but the powerful 29-year-old has yet to rescale the heights which catapulted him to fame.

Husselman himself played at the 2003 World Cup, alongside Lensing, winger Melrick Africa, hooker Johannes Meyer, fly-half Emile Wessels, hooker Hugo Horn and openside Heino Senekal all featured four years ago; Horn and Senekal also played in the 1999 World Cup.

Namibia: 15-Tertius Losper; 14-Ryan Witbooi, 13-Bratley Langenhoven, 12-Piet van Zyl, 11-Heini Bock; 10-Emile Wessels, 9-Eugene Jantjies; 8-Jacques Burger, 7-Heino Senekal, 6-Jacques Nieuwenhuis, 5-Nico Esterhuize, 4-Wacca Kazombiaze, 3-Jane du Toit, 2-Hugo Horn, 1-Kees Lensing (capt).

Replacements: 16-Johannes Meyer, 17-Johnny Redelinghuys, 18-Michael MacKenzie, 19-Tinus du Plessis, 20-Jurie van Tonder, 21-Lu-Wayne Botes, 22-Melrick Africa.

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