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Bangladesh more likely are out of the tournament. Yes, mathematically they still can qualify. But this would be a bitter pill to swallow. They would have fancied a win here. But Netherlands have been a good team in this tourney barring the massacre they had to suffer against the Aussies. Netherlands once again have reiterated how well they can function at this level. They just need more nurturing. They just need to rub shoulders with the best on a more consistent basis and we might as well have a very solid team from the land of windmills. Cheesy it may sound but the land of cheese - Netherlands - have instilled the 'Oranje Dutch fever' in the minds of their opponents. SA and Bangladesh fell prey to it. Others don't want to encounter it. We don't mind cheese. Cheesecakes would be better. But before the icing becomes anymore slippery, this is Kumar Abhisekh Das signing off on behalf of some uber talented sapiens in the form of Sagar Chawla, Saurabh Shankar, Abhinav Guha and Praveen.
Scott Edwards: I think it was easy to be fair. We only had two days off. We were straight into travelling and into our plans. We were saying if we could get 220 plus, we were in the game. The bottom order guys got us to a very competitive total. The bowlers have been awesome. Aryan, Colin, Bas everyone. We have been superb on the field. Bit of everything. The system is getting more professional in Netherlands. We train incredibly hard. We always spoke at the start of the tournament that we aim for the semis. That remains our goal but we have a few tough games coming up.
Shakib Al Hasan: I thought we bowled very well. We should have restricted them to 160-170. We have been very poor with the bat throughout the tournament. This is as bad as it gets. It is very difficult from here. We need to take this on our chin. Throughout this tournament we have been struggling. Not sure what's going on the minds. Very unlike the Bangladesh team. The fans have been supporting us through our ups and downs.
Paul van Meekeren | Player of the Match: Pretty special day. We’ve said earlier we want to go till the semis, and for that we need to win games. Very happy with the way we bounced back against Australia. At the halfway stage, 230-240 would have been par we reckoned. Aryan Dutt and van Beek kept things tight in the powerplay. We’ve been working on our fielding, every training session we do 20 minutes of fielding drills. It was an all round performance, pretty tough to pick a Man of the Match. Scott Edwards and Sybrand Engelbrecht got a bit of momentum for us by building that partnership. Pure team performance tonight.
Stats courtesy Deepu Narayanan
Bangladesh has now lost to four Associate nations in World Cups - the most by a Full Member side. 60 runs vs Canada Durban 2003 32 runs vs Kenya Joburg 2003 74 runs vs Ireland Bridgetown 2007 87 runs vs Netherlands Kolkata 2023
Most wins for Associate nations against Full Member sides in a World Cup 3 Kenya in 2003 (SL, Zim & Ban) 2 Ireland in 2007 (Pak & Ban) 2 Ireland in 2015 (WI & Zim) 2 Netherlands in 2023 (SA & Ban)
Biggest wins for an Associate nation vs Full Member sides in WCs (by runs) Net bt Ban 2023 (87 runs) Ire bt Ban 2007 (74 runs) Kenya bt WI 1996 (73 runs) Ban bt Pak 1999 (62 runs)
Best figures for Netherlands in World Cups 4/23 Paul van Meekeren vs Ban Kolkata 2023 4/35 Tim de Leede vs Ind Paarl 2003 4/42 Feiko Kloppenberg vs Nam Bloemfontein 2003
21:24 Local Time, 15:54 GMT, 21:24 IST: Orange is the colour of positivity. In cricketing terms, it should be the colour for resurgence and upheaval. Netherlands have managed to defend 229 against Bangladesh.
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van Meekeren to Taskin Ahmed, out Caught by Bas de Leede!! Taskin Ahmed c Bas de Leede b van Meekeren 11(35) [4s-1]
van Meekeren to Taskin Ahmed, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
42.1
van Meekeren to Taskin Ahmed, no run
Paul van Meekeren [7.0-0-23-3] is back into the attack
Shoriful Islam, left handed bat, comes to the crease
41.6
Ackermann to Mustafizur, out Bowled!! Mustafizur b Ackermann 20(35) [4s-2 6s-1]
Ackermann to Mustafizur, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!
41.5
Ackermann to Mustafizur, no run, excellent over so far.
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Ackermann to Mustafizur, no run, and that rips away to beat the poking blade outside off
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