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| The Netherlands gave birth to a fairy tale after defeating South Africa AFP Dharamshala from Adelaide. From T20 World Cup to real world cup. The version has changed, the venue has changed, but the story has not changed. The 50-over World Cup also saw a repeat of the T20 World Cup. After a gap of 11 months, the Netherlands showed the Dutch fairy tale after defeating South Africa in the World Cup again. After winning the 20-over World Cup last November by 12 runs, the Dutch won the ODI World Cup match by 38 runs today. The match started after two hours in the rain and the Netherlands scored 245 for 8. Chasing runs, South Africa all out for 207 runs. The World Cup is now frozen due to the incident caused by the Netherlands. Those who took their eyes off the World Cup cricket because it was not packed, can now return. The so-called small teams are doing the work of organizing the World Cup. On Sunday, the world champion England was defeated by 'wee' Afghanistan. Afghanistan still have Test status, but the Dutch don't either. However, the Dutch can claim, "We got a chance at the World Cup even after two test teams like the West Indies and Zimbabwe!" South Africa lost to Sri Lanka and Australia by playing brutal cricket and became the victim of one of the biggest incidents in World Cup history. The team in the orange jersey could not write the story of turning around the biggest victory in their World Cup history. Most of the teams batting first have written the story of losing their way after a good start in this World Cup. The Dutch, who lost the toss and batted yesterday, lost the sixth wicket in the last ball of the 27th over, with just 112 runs. After 16 overs, the team ended the innings with 245 runs. Having added 133 runs in the last 16 overs, the Netherlands scored 89 runs in the last powerplay of eight overs.  |
Captain Scott Edwards led from the front as the Dutch turned around. After the fall of the fifth wicket in the 21st over, the wicketkeeper batsman who came to the wicket finished the innings unbeaten on 78 runs. His innings of 69 balls was decorated with 10 fours and 1 six. Rolf von der Merwe and Ariane Dutt gave him great support at the end.
Edwards added 64 runs with von der Merwe in the eighth wicket and took the team's run to 200 over. After returning to Marwa with 29 runs from 19 balls, Aryan Dutt stormed the wicket. The 20-year-old spinner scored 23 runs off 9 balls with three sixes. Captain Edwards also scored more runs than balls.
245 runs on the score card. But at the end of the innings, who dares to bet with the Dutch, who knows! Captain Temba Bavuma took South Africa's run to 36 in 7.5 overs with Quinton de Kock, who scored a century in the previous two matches.Proteas started to fall in the last ball of the eighth over. Off-spinner Colin Ackerman's delivery bounced off de Kock's gloves and took refuge in Edwards' wicketkeeping gloves. Proteas skipper Temba Bavuma bowls Rolf von der Merwe's left-arm spin after 7 balls. That made South Africa score 39/2. What a surprise, when Bavuma got out against the Netherlands in the T20 World Cup last year, South Africa's score was still 39/2!
Two batsmen like captain's partner Aiden Markram and Recy von der Dusen in the dugout before two more overs. Aryan Dutt was caught at backward point by Dusen who scored 4 runs while reverse sweeping Marwe. Pacer Paul Von Meekeren bowled Markram in the previous over.
The biggest partnership of the Protea innings was then made by David Miller with Heinrich Klaasen. In the 19th over, Logan von Beek broke the pair by making Klaassen caught by Vikramjit Singh. In the 24th over, when Miller, who was still the hope of South Africa, was caught on the boundary line and survived, it seemed that fielder Bas de Leedy had given up the match.
Killer Miller, who came back to life on 27 runs, however, could only add 15 more runs before being bowled by Von Beek. Yet his innings of 43 off 52 balls is the highest in a Protea innings. After Miller's dismissal in the last ball of 31 overs, the Proteas played only to try to bridge the gap.
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