The Netherlands takes revenge with a win against the Emirates
Published at 09 November, 2024The Dutch men have won the second meeting with the United Arab Emirates convincingly. Southeast of Oman’s capital Muscat the result was 241 – 174.
Kyle Klein came into the team for Paul van Meekeren and Colin Ackermann for Ryan Klein. Losing the toss in this Series usually means fielding first. Thanks to openers Vikram Singh and Max O'Dowd and a better pitch than in the first two showdowns, the Dutch had an excellent start this time.
Knowing they could trust the surface the openers started batting with more and more conviction. The 50/0 came after twelve overs and the 100/0 in the 24th over.
However, six overs from the twentieth onwards yielded only sixteen runs, bringing the run rate back down to just over four per over. The Dutch had to accelerate and that happened: in the overs after the 'lean patch', the boundary was found more often. O'Dowd – who was dropped three times – capitulated after 69 runs; Vikram went for 66 (140/2) shortly after.
Ackermann (21) and Edwards brought the score to 180/3/38.5. In an attempt to speed up - the run rate was 4.5 after 40 overs - Edwards (18) ran himself out (183/4).
Thanks to 24 runs off twenty balls by Noah Croes - the only Dutch batsman with a strike rate over 100 - the Netherlands reached 241/8. For the UAE Junaid Siddique had great figures (3-31 in his ten overs).
UAE innings
Kyle Klein, Aryan Dutt, Colin Ackermann and Roelof van der Merwe took important wickets in the early stages; 61/4 was the result. Parashar/Chopra could be a crucial partnership on paper, but Kyle Klein broke it (71/5).
At seven wickets down, Naseer was dropped on the boundary, but the real danger man, Chopra, was caught on the cow corner boundary by Van der Merwe off the bowling of the excellent Aryan Dutt (3-26 in ten overs).
With that, the match was essentially over, as UAE still had to make 9.5 runs per over with only the tailenders available. Ali Naseer made an impressive 45 off 39 balls (4x6), but the end came at 174. Kyle Klein took 3-47 and Roelof van der Merwe was untouchable with 3-14.
The Dutch team will play its last One Day International of this Series on Monday, November 11, 2024 at 07:00 CET against Oman. The top-4 of the World Cup League two will play a qualifying tournament for the 2027 World Cup in 2027.
