🏏 Cricket World Cup 2023: Match #15: South Africa vs Netherlands 🏏 - Page 49

Adam Gilchrist Forever Fan: If Netherlands manage to stop the potential Miller onsalught today, the WC will truly open up, atleast in terms of competition, if not current standings.

Miller catch dropped, and it wents to 4. Feel bad for van der Merwe

South Africa vs Netherlands, 15th Match

South Africa need 139 runs - 43 overs game due to rain

NED - 245/8 (43)

RSA - 107/5 (24)

CRR: 4.46

RR : 7.32

Miller danced down but failed to get distance on the ball. The fielder despite having enough time never looked settled. In his mind I think he knew he wouldn't be able to take it.

RSA: 109-6 after 25 overs

24.6 van Meekeren to Marco Jansen, out Bowled!! Red isn't the colour for danger. That is passe. Orange is the new colour for fear. Ask the proteas! They are six down now. The cross seamer. The batter gets squared up and misses the line of the delivery for the woodwork to be in a mess. Jansen goes. They still need plenty. The rate is climbing up. SA look miserable. The Dutch needed this. Marco Jansen b van Meekeren 9(25)

van Meekeren to Marco Jansen, THATS OUT!! Bowled!!

Bas de Leede [1.0-0-2-0] is back into the attack

Gerald Coetzee, right handed bat, comes to the crease

Overs summary (17-25); Phase winner - Netherlands

- Bas de Leede bowls a quiet first over

- van Beek gets rid of the big fish, Klaasen, Out caught at fine leg on the pull.

- van der Merwe continues to keep it tight

- Bas de Leede, at long-on, drops Miller on 23. van der Merwe the unlucky bowler

- van Meekeren cleans up Jansen with a cross-seam delivery

Total extras so far by both teams is 35 extras.

Ravi Varma: If IPL had brought the individual talent to the core, WC 2023 is bringing out the team talent as a whole. Losing doesn’t matter much as long as you fight hard. Great to see remarkable efforts from the so called small teams which surely can turn big by the next edition of WC!

26.2 van Meekeren to Gerald Coetzee, FOUR, Gerald Coetzee and SA will take it! Fuller ball, outside off, little overpitched and Gerald Coetzee silked the drive past mid-off for a four. Was hit on the up and into the gap