Recent Match Report - Netherlands vs South Africa 15th Match 2023/24

Netherlands 245 for 8 (Edwards 78*, van der Merwe 29, Jansen 2-27) beat South Africa 207 (Miller 43, van Beek 3-60, van der Merwe 2-34, de Leede 2-36, van Meekeren 2-40) by 38 runs 43 overs a aspect

Scott Edwards’ rousing unbeaten half-century gave his bowlers perception they usually shot for the celebs, demolishing South Africa’s storied batting line-up handy Netherlands a historic World Cup victory.

South Africa, having gained each their video games on the event previous to this by greater than 100 runs, after posting totals of 428 and 311, had insisted within the lead-up that they’d moved on from a group-stage defeat to Netherlands which ended their T20 World Cup marketing campaign final yr. Netherlands, in the meantime, had proven fleeting glances of what they is likely to be able to right here with heavy but spirited defeats to Pakistan and New Zealand. This match adopted the script, till Edwards and Roelof van der Merwe – who shone with bat and ball – ripped it as much as safe a 38-run win, Netherlands’ first in opposition to South Africa in ODIs.

Having slipped to 50 for 4 then lurched to 140 for 7, Netherlands piled on 105 runs from the final 9 overs by way of Edwards, who completed on 78 not out off 69 deliveries, van der Merwe with 29 off 19 and Aryan Dutt with 23 off 9 to set a goal of 246 that had appeared so unlikely when South Africa’s tempo quartet of Kagiso Rabada, Marco Jansen, Gerald Coetzee and Lungi Ngidi set about their work.

Then van der Merwe took two wickets for 3 runs along with his first eight balls in South Africa’s run chase as Colin Ackermann and Paul van Meekeren additionally snared early wickets to depart the overwhelming pre-match favourites reeling at 44 for 4.

Quinton de Kock tried to paddle Ackermann, solely to lob a catch to keeper Edwards by way of glove then shoulder, Temba Bavuma noticed his stumps splattered by van der Merwe’s first ball, van Meekeren beat Aiden Markram’s defences with a shorter supply which saved low and Rassie van der Dussen reverse swept van der Merwe straight to Dutt at backward level to place South Africa in all types of hassle.

Rassie van der Dussen was out trying to reverse sweep

Rassie van der Dussen was out making an attempt to reverse sweep•AFP/Getty Photographs

David Miller and Heinrich Klaasen appeared like steadying issues with a run-a-ball partnership of 45 however then Logan van Beek, again within the Netherlands aspect after lacking the New Zealand conflict with a hamstring harm, had Klaasen out spooning a brief ball straight to Vikramjit Singh at high quality leg. Miller hung round, however might solely handle 43 from 52 balls as Netherlands saved chipping away at these round him and when he grew to become the seventh wicket to fall, bowled by van Beek, the match appeared over. So it proved, regardless of Keshav Maharaj and Ngidi placing on 41 runs for the tenth wicket, Maharaj edging van Beek to none apart from captain Edwards to seal the outcome with one ball to spare.

After profitable the toss in moist circumstances which hung over Dharamsala to delay the beginning by two hours and cut back the match to 43 overs per aspect, South Africa predictably opted to bowl first to glorious impact, limiting Netherlands to 22 with out loss earlier than Rabada entered the assault within the seventh over and struck instantly. His first ball cramped Singh for area as he tried to tug and despatched a high edge flying excessive for Klaasen to take a superb diving catch after working a good distance again from slip.

In the beginning of the following over, Jansen chimed in with the wicket of Max O’Dowd, caught behind by de Kock, though it took a South Africa overview to affirm the dismissal.

By the top of the primary powerplay, diminished to 9 overs, Netherlands have been 28 for two and the wickets continued to fall in a gradual stream as South Africa’s seamers nailed their lengths and captain Bavuma used their opinions correctly, as evidenced once more in Rabada’s lbw dismissal of Bas de Leede with a gem that nipped again off a size outdoors off stump and crashed into the pad slightly below the knee roll, ball-tracking revealing that the highest of center was in peril.

Coetzee, introduced in so as to add tempo on the expense of left-arm wristspinner Tabraiz Shamsi, eliminated Colin Ackermann, who dragged onto his stumps. Ngidi, compelled to attend till his sixth over for his first wicket, had Sybrand Engelbrecht holing out to Jansen at deep high quality leg, ending a 32-run stand with Teja Nidamanuru.

Scott Edwards hit an unbeaten 78 off 69•AFP/Getty Photographs

It remained Netherlands’ highest partnership of the match till Edwards and van der Merwe obtained issues shifting. As much as that time, Jansen’s fumble on the boundary at deep high quality leg when Nidamanuru was on 14 was the one actual blemish on South Africa’s efficiency and that in itself did not show overly expensive with Jansen trapping Nidamanuru for 20.

Nevertheless it wasn’t lengthy after that South Africa began hemorrhaging runs – and extras (an eye-watering 32 for the match) – and fielding errors crept in, permitting Netherlands to recuperate from the 82 for five they discovered themselves at when Edwards strode to the crease.

Van der Merwe helped himself to fifteen runs off one Coetzee over, together with six over deep third, Edwards having despatched Rabada over the fence at deep sq. leg a short while earlier than because the pair placed on 64 runs for the eighth wicket.

Ngidi did his finest to place South Africa again on monitor with a sluggish bouncer that van der Merwe despatched flying in the direction of quick third, de Kock stepping throughout to assemble, however not earlier than Netherlands had recovered to 204 for 8.

Dutt then teamed up with Edwards to proceed Netherlands’ push, his unbeaten 23 off simply 9 balls comprising three sixes, over lengthy on, deep midwicket and out of the bottom past deep sq., because the pair added an unbroken stand price 41 and introduced South Africa with a mountain to climb which proved as imposing because the Himalayas overlooking the stadium.