🏏 Cricket World Cup 2023: Match #15: South Africa vs Netherlands 🏏 - Page 66

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Originally posted by: Palak2812

Yes

When I got to know NED is batting 1st

Good, i was thinking abt changing but I was like oh well let it be🤷‍♀️ n that was mistake I did n that 450+ one too

Lightning has struck twice! SA have been shocked. Or is it the Orange fever which started off as an epidemic in Adelaide which has taken the form of a pandemic at Dharamsala? SA will find this loss tough to swallow. A loss like this ousted them from the T20 WC in 2022. They were one of the teams to beat coming into this on the back of wins against SL and Australia. They were on top as well. The ball was zooming around. But Edwards with RVM just turned the game around with some enterprising batting. The chase started for SA and derailed in the first 10 as they lost four wickets. The spin from the Dutch made life tough for the SA batters. They had them on a leash. Aryan Dutt started with a maiden. RVM then entered the scene with the ball and just like he did with the bat he turned the game on its head, literally as well as metaphorically. Credit to the skipper of Netherlands who played the role of the saviour with the bat and then was one step ahead with his moves on the field. This is a historic win as Netherlands for the first time have defeated a Test playing nation in a 50 Overs World Cup. Afghanistan dished the bitter pill to England a couple of nights ago and now Netherlands have hunted the Goliath in the form of SA.

What could SA have done better? When Netherlands were 82 for 5, SA could have closed the game off. But Edwards and van der Merwe had other ideas. The last few overs just went for plenty. Death bowling is a major concern for them. The top-order had been scoring massive runs for the SA unit but it was polished off soon today. Miller was expected to take the chase deep but even he faltered and that I guess was it for them in this chase. What the Dutch did well? Their never say die attitude. They ran Pakistan close but have managed to go the distance here. RVM once a former Protea just managed to be a thorn once again in the eyes of his former unit. He took a superb catch in the T20 WC to help Netherlands win that and today he was everywhere with bat as well as the ball.

Scott Edwards | Player of the Match: Over the last couple of games too many of our middle order batters were being out before the end of the game, so I wanted to take it deep and hope a couple of guys around me chip in and we are lucky enough to get that score in the end. He's (Roelof van der Merwe) good fun to bat with, he runs hard and hits into some strange areas which is good fun to watch from the other end.it I just got him (Aryan Dutt) on strike and he was clearing the ropes, he's got the talent and it's all there to see tonight. Proud of the group. We came into the tournament where we wanted to have a chance in the semi finals and if you wanna do that you gotta beat teams and South Africa are one of the favourites the way they are playing, so it is a good win for us.

This is the first instance of Netherlands beating a Full Member nation other than Zimbabwe and Ireland in ODIs. (They tied against West Indies in WC Qualifiers and beat them in a Super Over)

This is the first instance of South Africa losing an ODI against an Associate nation.

Originally posted by: SoniRita

Good, i was thinking abt changing but I was like oh well let it be🤷‍♀️ n that was mistake I did n that 450+ one too

Originally posted by: SoniRita

Good, i was thinking abt changing but I was like oh well let it be🤷‍♀️ n that was mistake I did n that 450+ one too

I won't say total score is a mistake.

If I knew overs reduced

I too would have reduced the score.

But I didn't knew about reduction of overs so isliye I chose the other option