West Indies beat Netherlands by 5 wickets in 2nd ODI. With this, he took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the 3-match series. In this victory of West Indies, its batsmen Brandon King and Casey Carty played an important role. Brandon King was not sold in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 Mega Auction. His base price was Rs 50 lakh.
It would not be wrong to say that if Brandon King and Casey Carty had not made an unbeaten partnership, the Netherlands team would have managed to secure their first win against the West Indies in One Day Internationals. Since 2007 till now, 4 One Day International matches have been played between West Indies and Netherlands. In all of these, West Indies have been successful in achieving victory. West Indies defeated Netherlands by 7 wickets in the first match of this ODI series.
In this match played at the VRA Cricket Ground in Amstelveen, Netherlands, the host team won the toss and elected to bat. However, his decision did not prove to be very right and the entire team could only score 214 runs in 48.3 overs. On his behalf, only openers Vikramjit Singh, Max Odd and wicketkeeper Scott Edwards could touch the double figure.
Vikramjeet scored 46 off 58 balls, Odd made 51 off 78 balls and Edwards scored 68 runs in 89 balls. Aqeel Hossain was the most successful for West Indies. He took 4 wickets for 39 runs. Alzarri Joseph took 2 wickets for 30 runs. Anderson Phillip, Hayden Walsh and Nkrumah Bonner also took a wicket each.
Chasing the target, West Indies got off to a bad start. He had lost 4 wickets including captain Nicholas Pooran within 60 runs. Brandon King then shared a 39-run partnership with Kyle Meyers for the fifth wicket. However, Meyers also returned to the pavilion on the second ball of the 24th over. He scored 22 runs.
Brandon then found good support from Carty. Batting carefully, both of them shared an unbeaten partnership of 118 runs in the next 22 overs and put West Indies’ victory in the bag. Bas de Leede took two wickets for 46 runs for the Netherlands. Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt and Shariz Ahmed were successful in taking a wicket each.