Using virtualscroll leads to incorrectly applied css

Ionic Framework ionic-v3
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Trying to get alternating row colors - I find that using the more performant virtualscroll leads to inconsistent results - even rows are not colored correctly once I swipe really fast up or down.
Reverting to an *ngFor - makes the problem go away. Bug ? Is this due to UI element reuse ?

On Ionic 2.1.18 - v2 app (typescript ang2) - Android device

// css
page-trans ion-item:nth-child(even){
  background: beige
}

// html - works
<ion-list>
  <ion-item *ngFor="let entry of entries">

// html - doesn't
<ion-list [virtualScroll]="entries">
  <ion-item *virtualItem="let entry">

Thanks