Hospice. After England’s big defeat at the hands of Afghanistan, the second upset of the Cricket World Cup was seen in Dharamshala on Tuesday. When Netherlands defeated a powerful team like South Africa. South Africa has played 3 matches in the World Cup so far and has lost for the first time. South Africa’s team is very strong and had earlier defeated Australia and Sri Lanka in the World Cup. In the match of 43-43 overs due to rain, South Africa won the toss and asked Netherlands to bat first. Half of the Netherlands team was sent to the pavilion by South Africa for 82 runs, but captain Charles Edwards stood firm and along with other batsmen, he put 245 runs on the Netherlands scoreboard. Netherlands captain Edwards scored 78 runs. Along with this, when South Africa got the target of 246 runs to win the match, it seemed that it would easily defeat the Netherlands. The special thing is that in the T20 World Cup held in Australia a year ago, Netherlands had also defeated South Africa.
The expectations that South African fans had from their team seemed to be dashed from the very beginning. South Africa’s De Kock returned to the pavilion after scoring 20 runs. Then Bavuma was out after scoring 16 runs. Markram and Dussen were dismissed for 4-4 runs by the Netherlands bowlers. After this, South Africa’s Miller and Klaasen made a partnership of 45 runs. When Klaasen was out, Mirror also returned to the pavilion after scoring 43 runs. Kotze contributed 22 runs and Rabada contributed 9 runs to his team. South Africa’s tailenders also could not do anything. As a result, only 207 runs could be scored in reply and South Africa was defeated by Netherlands by 38 runs. The special thing is that when half of the Netherlands team had returned to the pavilion, it seemed that South Africa would bowl them out for less than 200, but after scoring 245 runs, the Netherlands stood in the contest. The pitch also became a problem for South Africa. On the turning pitch, its players could not sense the balls and the Netherlands bowlers kept taking their wickets.
Netherlands has played in World Cup cricket matches 4 times before. He played the last World Cup in 2011. For the first time, Netherlands has defeated an ICC full member country in a World Cup match. Earlier, Netherlands had defeated Namibia in 2003 and then Scotland in 2007 in World Cup matches. However, both those teams were also new. Now by defeating South Africa, Netherlands has succeeded in turning the attention of cricket lovers towards itself.