Ground: | Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur |
Scorecard: | England v Netherlands |
Player: | RN ten Doeschate, PW Borren, AJ Strauss, IJL Trott, KP Pietersen |
Event: | ICC World Cup 2010/11 |
DateLine: 24th February 2011
After a couple of matches where the minnows were thrashed soundly, Netherlands put a performance that would give some heart and inspiration for the other minnows of the tournament. It could have being a perfect day for ten Doeschate had Netherlands won the match. Ryan ten Doeschate scored a brilliant one-day hundred and then took two important wickets to give a sniff of a win to his side. A fielding of comic proportions and shoddy bowling from England very nearly gifted the match to the Dutch before the batsmen redeemed their side with good batting. The English batsmen paced the run-chase well to help a shell-shocked English side to cross the winning line.
 
Netherlands skipper Borren won the toss and elected to bat first on a wicket that looked a belter. James Anderson never looked at ease bowling on a flat pitch that offered zero assistance while Broad for reasons known only to him kept banging the middle of the pitch though there was zero bounce. It was a confident batting display by the Dutch and the openers gave the side a solid start. Though the openers were back in the hut by the 11th over ten Doeschate and Tom Cooper, kept the runs ticking over in the middle overs until Cooper was out for for 47. Tim de Grooth provided Ten Doeschate with sensible support. ten Doeschate played a mature innings before opening up his shoulders during the death overs. 
A target of 293 needed a solid start and Strauss led the way and Pietersen after the initial flurry began to find scoring runs a little difficult. Pietersen fell to left arm spinner Sieleer while Strauss fell mistiming a pull on 88 and soon Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell were milking the bowlers. Trott made 62 off 65 balls before he was stumped off a wide and when Bell missed a straight delivery the nerves were jangling. Collingwood and Bopara calmed the nerves as they found the boundary ropes at important intervals to take the English side over the victory line breaking the hearts of the Dutch side.LATEST SCORES
CURRENT EVENTS
- Asian Cricket Council Premier Cup 2024
- Botswana Cricket Association Kalahari Women's T20 International Tournament 2023/24
- Estonia Women in Gibraltar 2024
- ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League Two 2023/24 to 2027
- ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier 2024
- Ireland Women and Thailand Women in United Arab Emirates 2024
- Mongolia Women in Indonesia 2024
- New Zealand in Pakistan 2023/24
- Pakistan in Ireland 2024
- Pakistan Women in England 2024
- United Arab Emirates Women's Twenty20 Quadrangular Series 2024
- West Indies Women in Pakistan 2023/24
- Zimbabwe in Bangladesh 2024
View all Current Events CLICK HERE