This team became a victim of upset before the T20 World Cup
T20 World Cup 2024 Warm Up Matches: A major upset has been seen during the warm-up match of T20 World Cup 2024. Sri Lanka and Netherlands teams came to play a warm-up match at Broward County Stadium in Florida. In this match, the Netherlands team surprised the cricket world by defeating Sri Lanka. This is a big win for the Netherlands before the main event of T20 World Cup 2024. At the same time, the effect of this defeat can be seen in Sri Lanka’s game in the group stage.
Warm-up match big upset
In this match played between the two teams, Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl. But their decision proved wrong. The Netherlands batsmen performed very well. Batting first, they scored 181 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. After this, their bowlers bowled brilliantly. Due to which the Sri Lankan team was all out for 161 runs in 18.5 overs and the Netherlands won this match by 20 runs. Let us tell you that Sri Lanka is the most successful team in the T20 World Cup. It has also won this title once. In such a situation, this defeat is going to hurt Sri Lanka a lot.
Netherlands has always been a headache for big teams
Netherlands has defeated many big teams in the main event of T20 World Cup. In T20 World Cup 2009, Netherlands team defeated England by 4 wickets. In T20 World Cup 2014 also, Netherlands defeated England by 45 runs. In the last T20 World Cup, Netherlands defeated South Africa by 13 runs. In such a situation, this time also big teams will have to be cautious of Netherlands. Netherlands team is in Group-D. Apart from Netherlands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh are present in this group.
Squads of both the teams for T20 World Cup
Sri Lanka: Wanindu Hasaranga (captain), Charith Asalanka (vice-captain), Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Kamindu Mendis, Sadeera Samarawickrama, Angelo Mathews, Dasun Shanaka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Mahesh Theekshana, Dunith Welalage, Dushmantha Chameera, Nuwan Thushara, Mathisha Pathirana, Dilshan Madushanka.
Netherlands: Scott Edwards (captain), Aryan Dutt, Bas de Leede, Daniel Doram, Fred Klaasen, Kyle Klein, Logan van Beek, Max O’Dowd, Michael Levitt, Paul van Meekeren, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Teja Nidamanuru, Tim Pringle, Vikram Singh, Viv Kingma, Wesley Barresi.
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