Max O’Dowd hit an unbeaten half-century to steer the Netherlands to a six-wicket victory over Nepal in its T20 World Cup Group D conflict on Tuesday.
Set a goal of 107 to win, O’Dowd anchored the Netherlands’ run chase with 54 off 48 balls to see the Dutch over the road on the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas.
The Netherlands completed on 109-4 off 18.4 overs, with Bas de Leede hitting the profitable runs with a boundary to seal victory.
Vikram Singh supported O’Dowd with 22 runs whereas Sybrand Engelbrecht was the one different Netherlands batsman to make it into double figures with 14.
Nepal, in the meantime, was left ruing a trio of dropped catches that may have turned the sport had they gone handy, together with skipper Rohit Paudel’s missed probability to eliminate O’Dowd within the 18th over.
HIGHLIGHTS | NETHERLANDS VS NEPAL
The Netherlands’ modest victory goal had been arrange by a disciplined bowling show which restricted Nepal to 106 all out.
“Our bowlers have been superior up high,” Netherlands captain Scott Edwards mentioned afterwards.
“All 5 of our bowlers have been good. Ideally, we might have gotten the runs a bit of faster, but it surely was nice the way in which Max batted, and Bassie completed it off effectively. We’ve received to play constant cricket proper approach by means of this match,” he added.
Logan van Beek took three wickets for simply 18 runs whereas Tim Pringle additionally claimed a trio of wickets, ending with figures of 3-20 off 4 overs.
Paul van Meekeren bagged a brace of wickets for 19 runs whereas de Leede completed on 2-22.
After shedding the toss, Nepal’s batters struggled to familiarize yourself with moist, overcast situations after being put into bat following a slight delay of play brought on by a moist outfield.
“The situations whereas batting have been actually difficult,” Nepal captain Paudel mentioned. “Netherlands bowled rather well.”
Nepal was in bother early on to search out themselves struggling at 15-2 after 3.1 overs.
Anil Sah was the subsequent to fall for 11 runs after being caught by van Beek off Pringle as Nepal reached 40-3.
There was a slight revival after Rohit Paudel hit a brisk 35 off 37 balls, however the Nepal skipper quickly discovered himself working out of middle-order companions.
Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee and Sompal Kami all fell in fast succession to go away Nepal struggling on 66-6 after 13.2 overs, and when Paudel was dismissed by Pringle the ultimate three wickets all tumbled quickly.