Dutch let Scots escape
Published at 06 June, 2025The Netherlands also lost the second World Cup qualifier of the WCL2 series in Scotland. In Dundee, the hosts were too strong. The Dutch had Scotland on 97/6, but the hosts did well to recover to 262. The Dutch reply (218 all out) was insufficient.
Scott Edwards had been injured while batting against Nepal and could not be patched up sufficiently for the encounter with Scotland. He was replaced by veteran Wesley Barresi, while Viv Kingma was replaced by Aryan Dutt.
George Munsey started his innings with two well-timed shots, but was also beaten by pacers Paul van Meekeren and Kyle Klein from time to time. More pace and a bit of movement off the seam and Tear was dismissed with only seven runs to his name; a beauty by Paul van Meekeren (17/1).
Kyle Klein dropped Munsey on 14 on a difficult caught and bowled chance, but was given a second difficult chance off McMullen shortly afterwards which he accepted (36/2) and still got Munsey (26) caught behind with a delivery that moved off the seam (43/3).
The challenge now was to break the Berrington / McCreath partnership. Aryan Dutt did it, aided by a fine catch from Teja Nidamanuru at backward square (72/4, Berrington 15). An inside edge from Matt Cross (8) on the stumps meant 88/5 after 19.5 overs.
At this stage, spinners Van der Merwe and Dutt were bowling their overs at a high tempo and Scotland were unable to accelerate. A sixth wicket also came: a superb catch from Zach Lion-Cachet at cover, which dismissed the bewildered Leach for just four runs (97/6/23).
McCreath – who survived two close LBW shouts from Dutt – and Mark Watt (60) made a colossal recovery to 188/7/41.4. McCreath was dropped on 71 and eventually cleaned up by Van der Merwe for 81. Sharif (36 off 18) provided a formidable final flourish to 262/9. Dutt took 2-26 in ten overs, Van der Merwe 2-37 in ten and Kyle Klein 3-81. Aryan Dutt is now the all-time leading wickettaker in One Day Internationals for the Netherlands, while Van Meekeren's 1-53 moves to second place in that ranking.
Netherlands innings
Despite the expensive final overs, there was still no man overboard with only 5.26 runs asked per over. In the third over, Max O’Dowd hit Davidson twice for four and twice for six as the Netherlands raced to 26/0/3. However, O’Dowd (23) was dismissed an over later when McMullen took a fine catch off his own bowling.
Levitt and Vikram were both given a second life when Munsey squandered a simple chance at second slip and Davidson failed to control a Vikram chance off his own bowling. Shortly after Vikram was caught at square leg, keeper Cross squandered a chance off the newly introduced batsman Lion-Cachet. Levitt was caught off a no ball and hammered the free hit for six. Yet he (35), Lion-Cachet (13) and Barresi (LBW given on 13, 97/5) could not make the difference.
The hopes that had been pinned on Croes and Nidamanuru were dashed when Croes (26) was caught on the legside by keeper Cross (133/6) and Nidamanuru (17) at deep mid wicket (144/7). ‘Rearguard action’ came from Kyle Klein (24) and Roelof van der Merwe for the eighth wicket. Also for the last wicket there was a fine partnership between Van der Merwe (30 not out) and Van Meekeren (19), who even managed to produce a huge six. The Netherlands (218 all out in 45 overs) went down fighting (McMullen 3-40).
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