Netherlands has cricket world cup 2023 Everyone is surprised by the feat he did on Tuesday. Netherlands has created a big upset by defeating world number three team South Africa by 38 runs. Netherlands has registered this victory in the World Cup match after 16 years. For South Africa, this is their first defeat against an ally country. First major upset in this year’s tournament afghanistan Did this by defeating the last time champion England. The Netherlands, which secured a place in the 2023 World Cup by finishing second behind Sri Lanka in the qualifiers after missing the last two editions, achieved its third World Cup win on Tuesday. Earlier in 2007, the Dutch team had defeated Scotland by eight wickets. Earlier in 2003, Netherlands had won its first World Cup by defeating Namibia. Let us know how Netherlands did this feat?
Scott’s one captaincy innings
The match started quite late due to intermittent rain immediately after the toss. An innings was made of 43 overs. Netherlands had to bat first after losing the toss due to overcast conditions and extra cold in the mountain air. South African fast bowlers Kagiso Rabada, Marco Johnson and Lungi Ngidi got help from the pitch and Netherlands wickets kept falling at regular intervals. But in the death overs, Netherlands, inspired by their captain Scott Edwards, scored 105 runs at the loss of just one wicket in the last 10 overs. This was the first turning point. The team had made a respectable score of 245. Edwards played an innings of 78 runs in 69 balls.
South African bowlers failed in death overs
South African spin bowler Keshav Maharaj dismissed Van Beek on the fifth ball of the 34th over. Beak was out after scoring 10 runs. This was the seventh wicket of Netherlands. At that time the total score of the team was 140 runs. After this, South Africa took the tail batsmen lightly and their edge started becoming dull. The result was that more than 100 runs were scored in less than 10 overs. The captain remained unbeaten and Aryan Dutt hit three sixes in the last nine balls taking the team’s total score to 245.
South Africa’s flop batting
South Africa’s batting proved to be a flop against Netherlands. In its first match, this team had scored more than 400 against Sri Lanka. Opening batsman Quinton de Kock was a centurion. In its second match, South Africa made a mountain-like score of 311 runs against the strong Australia. In this also De Kock had scored a century. In that match, the Proteas bowlers had bowled out Australia at a score of 177. But on Tuesday no batsman could score a half-century. Only David Miller was seen fighting and he played an inning of 43 runs in 52 balls. However, he also got a lease of life.
Great fielding from Netherlands
Netherlands players surprised everyone with their fielding. Many seemingly impossible catches were taken. The players deployed on every front were giving their hundred percent. Seeing their fielding from the beginning, it seemed that they were playing only to win. Barring one or two occasions, everyone did their job very well. One such opportunity was David Miller’s missed catch. Captain Scott took three catches behind the wicket. Not only catches, Netherlands players also saved many runs for their team. The situation was such that the South African batsmen were yearning for one run each. While the South African bowlers gave away 31 extra runs, the Dutch bowlers gave away only 8 extra runs. If seen, extra runs became an important reason for South Africa’s defeat.