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New Zealand: Devon Conway, Will Young, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Tom Latham (C, WK), Glenn Phillips, Mark Chapman, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult
Netherlands: Vikramjit Singh, Max O’Dowd, Colin Ackermann, Bas de Leede, Teja Nidmanuru, Scott Edwards (C, WK), Sybrand Engelbrech, Roelof van der Merwe, Ryan Klein, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren
New Zealand have won their second game of the ODI World Cup, with a 99 run victory over the Netherlands in Hyderabad. The Netherlands won the toss and decided to field first. They’d made two changes from their opening match with Sybrand Engelbrech and Ryan Klein coming in for Logan van Beek and Saqib Zulfiqar. The New Zealand side made one change with Lockie Ferguson coming in for Jimmy Neesham.
Devon Conway and Will Young once again opened the batting for New Zealand and Aryan Dutt had the ball for the Netherlands. Tight bowling from Dutt managed to keep the first over to Conway a maiden. Ryan Klein opened up from the other end and he also bowled a maiden leaving New Zealand at 0/0 after 2 overs. With no one wanting to give the other any chance of getting an early hand on the game, Conway defended the third over of the game. It was the first time in over 10 years that the Blackcaps had conceded three maidens at the start of an ODI. Finally in the fourth over, the Kiwis were able to break the trend a take a couple of boundaries from Will Young’s bat.
From this point onwards, the Kiwis decided that they would pick up the aggressive route off both Dutt and Klein’s bowling. Conway and Young were building well nicely, bringing up their 50 partnership in the 8th over. Just as it looked like New Zealand were pushing for a big score, Conway holed out to Bas de Leede from the bowling of Roelof van der Merwe for 32 from 40.
Hero from the last game, Rachin Ravindra joined Young in the middle. Both players started to reduce the scoring rate from here, with less boundaries coming and more one’s and two’s being found. The Blackcaps 100 runs was made in the 19th over and then not long after Young brought up his 50 from 59 balls with it including 7 fours and a six. The Netherlands tried a few different bowling options with the likes of Dutt, van der Merwe, de Leede, Colin Ackermann and van Meekeren all trying to pick up either wicket before van Meekeren made the break with de Leede taking his second catch of the game, and van Meekeren picking up his first wicket of the day.
Daryl Mitchell joined Ravindra at the crease and the scoring rate was going at about six an over, before Ravindra falling one ball later after he’d made his half century for a run a ball 51. Captain Tom Latham and Mitchell were now tasked with the job of being able to push Aotearoa’s total up to over 300 and the pair were batting nicely together, looking to find the boundary at least once every over. With 10 overs left in the innings and New Zealand sitting on 238/3, the pair knew they would need to try and get hitting shortly as they still had plenty of wickets left in the bank. However, Mitchell was bowled by van Meekeren for 48 on the first ball of the fortieth over and Glenn Phillips also departed an over later for a run a ball four.
Mark Chapman was the next man to the crease, going the captain. But like Phillips, Chapman never really got going and was caught by van der Merwe off the bowling of Aryan Dutt for 5 from 13.
Mitchell Santner and Latham started smashing the ball all around the park from the 48th over, taking 17 from it.The next over went for 12 runs, before Lathm was stumped by Scott Edwards for a well made 53 from 46. Santner and Matt Henry had the last 8 balls of the innings left to face, and Henry contributed 8 off the first two balls. Santnerthen decided to find the boundary in the last over, but was helped with a no ball, which he sent for six and then he also sent the free hit for six. This meant that New Zealand were able to get to a total of 322/7 from their fifty overs. Young top scored with 70 whilst Latham contributed 53 and Ravindra 51. Dutt, van Meekeren and van der Merwe all took two wickets for the Netherlands.
Vikramjit Singh and Max O’Dowd, who represented the Auckland Aces in domestic cricket last summer, opened the batting for the Netherlands in chase of 323. They got off to a sound but slow start, being 17/0 after the first five overs. Henry made the breakthrough the next over, bowling Singh for 12 from 20.
Ackermann joined O’Dowd at the crease and the pair carried on with the same tempo that the Dutch had been using before Singh was dismissed. Taking the odd boundary and single here and there was the mood the Dutch seemed to be going for, but they were however going to need to pick up the pace shortly as it wasn’t a target they could just cruise to. O’Dowd unluckily was caught LBW by Santer for 16 and the Netherlands were looking in a bit of trouble at 44/2 after 11 overs.
de Leede only lasted five overs before he fell for 18 from 25, giving Ravindra the wicket and a great catch from Trent Boult of the boundary. Nidamanuru and Ackermann were getting to the stage where it would have to be one of them batting right through to the end of the game if the Dutch had any chance of winning, and they looked like they may have been able to be the crucial partnership in the Netherlands lineup. However, just when they were regularly taking 5, 6 runs an over on average, Nidamanuru was run out for 21.
Captain Scott Edwards and Ackermann were the pair now that had to get the scoring rate up and just try and bat to stay at the crease, this however didn’t eventuate with Ackermann being caught by Henry off Santner’s bowling for a well made 69 from 73.
Engelbrecht, who was on debut, joined Edwards at the crease, however their partnership only lasted a couple of overs before Edwards sent the ball back to Santner who took a caught and bowled and the captain was sent packing for 30 from 27.
The score sitting on 174/6 with 15 overs left, the possibility of Dutch win was slowly slipping away. When New Zealadn were able to remove van der Merwe, it left the Dutch reeling at 183/7 and then 198/8 when Klein fell for 8. It also meant that this was Santner’s sixth wicket of the day.
Henry cleaned up the rest of the Netherlands batting lineup, getting Engelbrecht to send the ball to Conway’s hands and then bowling Dutt for 11 to wrap the game up.
Ackermann top scored with 69 whilst Edwards made 30 and Engelbrech 29 on debut. Santner took 5/59, whilst Henry picked up three wickets and Ravindra got the other one.
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