Ackermann, van Meekeren, van der Merwe return to Netherlands squad for World Cup
South Africa-born batter Sybrand Engelbrecht was additionally named within the 15-member squad. Engelbrecht, who will flip 35 subsequent week, first got here into the limelight for electrical fielding for South Africa through the 2008 Under-19 World Cup. He has performed 58 List A video games, scoring 1275 runs at a mean of 45.53 and a strike charge of 78.89, and 54 first-class video games and 45 T20s. The final of these matches, on the South African home circuit, was in 2016.
From the World Cup Qualifier squad, Michael Levitt, Vivian Kingma and Clayton Floyd have been overlooked, whereas Noah Croes was named as a travelling reserve, alongside Kyle Klein.
Tim Pringle, who was listed initially to journey with the squad for the pre-tournament camp in Bengaluru between September 19 to twenty-eight, has been withdrawn.* “There’s actually been a development with Tim Pringle: He’s picked up a couple of niggles, so he actually won’t be coming to the pre-World Cup camp in Alur,” head coach Ryan Cook mentioned. “He’s obviously coming back from quite a big operation and we have been tracking his progress.” Pringle, 21, who performed for Netherlands within the T20 World Cup final 12 months in Australia, final performed this March, turning up for Northern Districts within the Plunkett Shield. According to Cook, Pringle had suffered a fracture, however the nature of damage isn’t recognized.
Left-arm seamer Fred Klaassen didn’t make it on account of stress fracture.
From the Qualifier event held in Zimbabwe in June-July, Netherlands and Sri Lanka have been the 2 groups to make it to the principle occasion, forward of the likes of West Indies, Ireland and Scotland.
“Naturally, our planning and preparation for the World Cup started soon after our qualification in Zimbabwe,” head coach Ryan Cook mentioned. “Having no bilateral fixtures after the qualifiers enabled us to plan for various scenarios for the duration of the summer. Over the past few months the players and staff have been hard at work with the full squad being very dedicated and detailed towards achieving our objective in the World Cup.
“We have an thrilling combination of youth and expertise and a unified, cohesive tradition which permits these to precise their greatest selves inside the group.”
Netherlands last played in an ODI World Cup in 2011. Wesley Barresi is the only member of the current squad to have featured in that edition. This will be their fifth appearance in the tournament.
Netherlands squad for World Cup
Scott Edwards (capt, wk), Colin Ackermann, Shariz Ahmed, Wesley Barresi, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Ryan Klein, Bas de Leede, Paul van Meekeren, Roelof van der Merwe, Teja Nidamanuru, Max O’Dowd, Vikram Singh, Saqib Zulfiqar
Travelling reserves: Noah Croes, Kyle Klein