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Easy score: Pakistan 95-4 (Rizwan 49, Glover 2-22) defeated the Netherlands 91-9 (Shadav 3-22, Wasim 2-15) by six wickets.
The Netherlands sank to the second-lowest total (91 to 9) in the ongoing T20 World Cup, with Pakistan scoring a six-wicket win in Perth on Sunday.
Pakistan’s best legspinner, Shadab Khan, took advantage of the pressure built up by the fast bowlers early on to take 3 wickets (3-22). In response, Mohammad Rizwan led the chase to record Pakistan’s maiden victory with 37 balls remaining, thus making him one short of half a century.
A common theme for the Dutch was their lack of runs from the middle order, and as they chose their first at-bat, they continued albeit limping to 91–9.
If their struggles with short balls and long pitches were not well documented, those concerns were exacerbated on the bouncy Perth pitches.
Other than Colin Ackerman and Scott Edwards (15), who top-scored with 27 Run-A-Balls, no other hitters made double figures. .
The measure of Pakistan’s hostile bowling was a blow to all-rounder Bas de Liede. He was hit by a rising Harris Rauch delivery and had to retire injured after nailing the grille of his helmet and cutting off his cheek. Logan van Beek was drafted to the XI playing as a concussion understudy, but did little to hide his batting problems.
Another disastrous trend in bats these days is the high percentage of dot balls and the low number of borders. Against Pakistan, the Dutch hitter played as many as 63 of his dot balls. That’s more than half of the balls they’ve faced, and in just a few he’s been able to hit five boundaries.
no excuses
“I think Australia’s bigger borders have become a problem, but that’s no excuse,” Edwards said after the game.
“We’re losing wickets sometimes, which means we haven’t been able to get the partnership together and we feel like we’re rebuilding all the time. Not ideal but an area we have to deal with and we’re looking forward to the next few games.” I hope you can fix it with
One of the few positives for the Dutch was their bowling effort. Brandon Glover, who first replaced Van Beek, attacked late to dismiss Fakhar Zaman, who pouched the screamer with Edwards and Shan Massoud, edging to a deep third man. Paul van Miekellen (1-19) saw the returning Roelof van der bowling with good control to account for Rizwan after Merwe ran out Babar his Azam in his second over.
A loss to Pakistan, the third-place finisher in the Super 12, meant that the Netherlands would not qualify for the semi-finals, but they will face Zimbabwe on Wednesday (2nd November) and South Africa the following Sunday (6th November). There are two games left. ).
“We have played quite a bit of cricket against Zimbabwe and I hope we can perform better than we did today. Our batting has not been able to fire all tournament and we are disappointed so we have a decent total on the board. We want to put it down and give ourselves a good explanation,” Edwards said.
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