ICC World Cup 2023, NED vs AFG: Netherlands score 113 against Afghanistan in 27 overs

Afghanistan cricket team celebrating a wicket during the match (Pic: AFP)

The Dutch collapsed to 113 for six wickets with their skipper Scott Edwards getting dismissed for a first-ball duck. He has been the only consistent player for the Netherlands in the ICC World Cup 2023. The Afghanistan bowlers are not leaking runs from both ends and are making the Dutch batsmen struggle for runs.

Wesley Barresi and Max O'Dowd opened the innings for the Netherlands but with the early wicket of Barresi, Dowd alone scored 42 runs in 40 balls. His innings included nine fours but was later run out by Azmatullah Omarzai. Accompanying him was Colin Ackermann who scored 29 runs and got out by Rashid Khan.

The Netherlands skipper Scott Edwards and Bas de Leede were both dismissed early. Edwards departed for a duck, whereas Leede was dismissed for three runs.

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Sybrand Engelbrecht and Saqib Zulfiqar were trying to stabilize the Netherlands innings, but Zulfiqar was dismissed by Noor Ahmad. Logan van Beek joins Engelbrecht in the middle. So far, Afghanistan's Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Mohammad Nabi, have one wicket each to their names. Rahman becomes the fourth Afghanistan bowler to claim 100 ODI wickets.

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Both teams have chances to qualify for the ICC World Cup 2023 semi-finals if they win all of their remaining matches. But, their chances of qualification also depend on the other team's match results and net run rate.

Squad changes:

Afghanistan are going in with four spinners, as Noor Ahmad comes in space of Naveen ul-Haq.

Roelof van der Merwe comes back into the playing XI and will be hoping to make an impact on a dry pitch.

Squads:

Afghanistan Squad:

Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmat Shah, Mohammad Nabi, Ikram Alikhil, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi.

Netherlands Squad:

Scott Edwards (c), Max O'Dowd, Bas de Leede, Paul van Meekeren, Colin Ackermann, Roelof van der Merwe, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt, Wesley Barresi, Saqib Zulfiqar, Sybrand Engelbrecht.