Logan van Beek’s career-best 4 for twenty-four vaults Netherlands into Super Sixes

Netherlands 168 for 3 (O’Dowd 90, de Leede 41*, Lamichhane 2-60) beat Nepal 167 (Paudel 33, van Beek 4-24, Vikramjit 2-20) by seven wickets

Van Beek discovered motion within the air and off the seam early on. He had Aasif Sheikh chop on within the third over of Nepal’s innings, which introduced Kushal Bhurtel and Bhim Sharki collectively and so they fought their means by means of even when they did not at all times look in management. They miscued a whole lot of their horizontal bat photographs.

Bhurtel welcomed Vikramjit with a reduce that went by means of cowl for 4 and a punch by means of mid-on for 3. But Vikramjit discovered his lengths to firstly dry up the runs, after which dismiss Bhurtel and Aarif Sheikh within the fifteenth and the seventeenth over, respectively. That began Nepal’s droop from 46 for 1 to 91 for five, and so they couldn’t get well thereafter.

Extra bounce and seam motion from Vikramjit accounted for Bhurtel (caught behind) and Aarif (caught at gully). Sharki, who noticed out the brand new ball, began aiming for the boundary after Bhurtel’s wicket. He mistimed a hook, and nearly reduce Bas de Leede to the fielder. His luck ran out when he sliced Clayton Floyd’s first ball to level.

Kushal Malla’s attribute positivity led to the primary six of the sport when he slog swept Floyd over midwicket within the twenty first over. But his aggression did not work towards Aryan Dutt, who bowled back-to-back maidens after which received Malla to mistime a slog to long-off.

Nepal captain Rohit Paudel pounced on Aryan within the twenty ninth over, taking him for a six and a 4. That led to van Beek’s return, and the full-fledged deployment of the short-ball tactic. Paudel and Dipendra Singh Airee had been out to the pull within the house of two overs.

Despite Sandeep Lamichhane impulsively making room to open up gaps and Gulsan Jha working the ball round to construct a gradual 32-run stand for the eighth wicket and thus give Nepal some respectability, it was solely a matter of time until the bouncers fetched Netherlands wickets. This time it was de Leede, who received Jha and Karan KC within the forty second over. Lamichhane received a few streaky boundaries earlier than additionally succumbing to the pull. He was the final man out; Nepal’s innings closed out with 33 balls to spare.

Vikramjit provided regular assist on the different finish, and by the point Lamichhane trapped him lbw within the thirteenth over, Netherlands had already damaged the again of the chase with an 86-run opening stand.

Two overs later, Lamichhane having Wesley Barresi out reverse sweeping to quick third led to a minor slowdown. But new batter de Leede settled in thereafter, and mixed with O’Dowd to rotate strike and discover common boundaries to take Netherlands shut.

With ten runs left to win, O’Dowd was knocked over for 90 by Jha. Despite O’Dowd lacking out on what would have been a match-winning first ODI century, Netherlands had no bother powering by means of to a seven-wicket win with as many as 137 balls remaining.