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That brings us to the end of our coverage for this encounter. Till the next time, this is me (Arya Sekhar Chakraborty) signing off also on behalf of my fellow commentator and good mate Rajarshi Das. Goodnight! Cheers!
Netherlands won by 41 runs
Michael Levitt 43(31) | Vivian Kingma 4/21(3.1) Matthew Cross 49(32) | Gavin Main 2/26(4)
It turned out to be a pretty convincing win for the home team Netherlands as they started with a thoroughly convincing all-round performance against Scotland in the first match of the tri-series. After getting to a more than competitive score of 167 in their allotted 20 overs, the Netherlands bowlers came out all guns blazing and wrecked the top order, reducing them to 16/3.
Vivian Kingma and Logan van Beek bowled brilliantly with the new ball. They moved the ball and stuck to a good length and bagged the wickets of Michael Jones, Ollie Hairs and Charlie Tear in the opening burst. It looked absolutely dead and buried for Scotland when Richie Berrington and Matthew Cross came together and stitched together a vital partnership to get them back in the game.
The duo took their time initially and once set, they started taking on the opposition bowlers. They scored at a pretty brisk rate which allowed them to keep up with the asking rate. A 66 run partnership brought them well and truly back in the game and that is when Daniel Doram, the debutant made a massive impact. The wicket of Berrington started a slide for Scotland.
They kept losing wickets at regular intervals and it turned out to be a rather tame end to the game. Cross scored a 32 ball 49 which included three fours and as many sixes while Berrington chipped in with a 29 ball 39 which was studded with four fours and a six. Vivian Kingma and Logan van Beek came back strongly in their second spell and finished with four and three wickets respectively. It was Kingma who cleaned up Bradley Currey to hand a 41 run win to Netherlands.
18.1 Vivian Kingma to Bradley Currie, THAT IS THAT! Skiddy hard length delivery just outside off, this one jagged back into Currie just a touch. Currie, caught on the crease, played all around this one and was pinged on the pad. The Dutch players went up, the umpire raised his finger, and the Netherlands take this game by a margin of 41 runs!
Bradley Currie LBW b Vivian Kingma 5 (7b, 0x4, 0x6)
18
overs
126/9score
1
0
1
1
2
2
runs
Chris Sole*
5(4)
Bradley Currie
5(6)
Aryan Dutt
0/20
17.6 Aryan Dutt to Chris Sole, floated up outside off stump, Sole ran down the wicket looking to smash this over cover, ended up slicing this over the circle behind point. Two taken
17.5 Aryan Dutt to Chris Sole, quicker one on a length around middle and off, Sole clubs this without timing towards deep mid wicket. The batters scurry back for the second
17.4 Aryan Dutt to Bradley Currie, on a length around off, Currie gets on top of this one and clips this towards mid wicket for a run
17.3 Aryan Dutt to Chris Sole, on a length around off, Sole flat-bats this one down towards long on for a single
17.2 Aryan Dutt to Chris Sole, quicker, on a length outside off, Sole looked to cut this away and was beaten
17.1 Aryan Dutt to Bradley Currie, on a length around off, Currie turns this towards deep mid wicket for a run