We have hit day 4 of this great tournament, and we are a day closer to South Africa’s first step in this edition of the elusive trophy.
Yesterday we saw the Australians give the Zimbabweans a hiding, which did not look at all likely after the Australians got off to a very slow start. Their bowling attack came through for them in the end though, winning by 90 odd runs.
Today we see England and the Netherlands face off, in what should be a really straight forward and one sided affair. Join us here for updates and Superbru discussions all day long.
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The Netherlands have won the toss and will bat first..
So we are in for a short game..
English team:
AJ Strauss*, KP Pietersen, IJL Trott, IR Bell, PD Collingwood, RS Bopara, MJ Prior†, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, GP Swann, JM Anderson
Netherlands:
AN Kervezee, W Barresi†, TLW Cooper, RN ten Doeschate, B Zuiderent, TN de Grooth, PW Borren*, Mudassar Bukhari, PM Seelaar, BP Loots, BA Westdijk
Eish doing quite well just hope i can keep up thats all got England by 96 runs or 5 wickets 😉
my pick is eng by 8 wickets, so will netherlands make enough runs to get 2 english wickets?
@franshark (Comment 5) :
I also have them by 8 wickets..
Good start, 7 off the first over..
Not that cricket matters… 😈
Netherlands cruising at 6 an over..
36/0 after 6
And then they lost their first wicket
36/1
Got England by 6 wickets I think.
@franshark (Comment 5) :
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 6) :
Same for me. 🙂 any BPs are going to be spread thinly.
Hup Hup Oranje !
Commentary is very poor ! Sounds like they are sitting in a tin 😈
Dutchmen lose another wicket.
The organisers certainly invested heavily in speakers. 🙄
Score??
67-2
15th over
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 1) : Looks like it might not be such a short game after all. 😉
Ned 82-2 after 18 overs
Netherlands 101/2 after 23 overs
Netherlands going better than one would have thought here
Netherlands 119 for 2 after 25
Holland 119/2 after 25 overs… 😯 🙂
Who would have thought 😎
I like it..hehehe. HUP HUP HOLLAND..
Pietersen just smacked for a six by a Dutchman.
Current partnership 71 runs, 14.1 overs, RR: 5.01 (ten Doeschate 41, Cooper 30)
Pietersen – 2 overs for 19 runs.
Upset on the cards here? I think not but its possible.
Netherlands 132/2 after 37 overs. Run rate 4.89 at the moment.
Hope they have some bowlers…hehe. England don’t look happy out there… 🙂
132-2
27 overs
@McLovin (Comment 24) : 😆
@Puma (Comment 28) : 27 you mean
Pietersen drops a catch.
Would have been quite a catch if he’d taken it.
3rd wicket down.
Tom Cooper (typical Dutch name 😉 ) goes for 47.
136-3
136/2 after 28 overs. AND KP misses a catch.. 🙂
I am liking this… 😆
HUP HUP HOLLAND.. 😎
@McLovin (Comment 33) : Damn missed that.
Pity Holland lost that wicket, this was turning out to be fun..hehe.
They probably will go out quick now.
@Ben (Comment 31) : Yes, typing error there… 😛
@Puma (Comment 36) : I think they can get up to 250 here
Interesting fact:
There are four South African born players in each team..
Thats 8 players in a game from South Africa
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 39) : Very interesting! 🙂
Pietersen & Anderson both run to catch the ball and then both leave it. Ball drops between them. 😆 😆
Bowler not impressed. 😈
Swann to ten Doeschate, 2 runs, shambles from England! ten Doeschate uses his feet and sends the ball miles in the air, but Pietersen and Anderson leave the catch to each other and it falls embarrassingly in the middle of them both. That was awful
@McLovin (Comment 41) :
Snap..
Go Holland! 😛
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 39) : Very interesting that.
They can quite easily make 300 here..
ten Doeschante can let rip like a Klusener, then England have kak!
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 46) : Does Holland have any bowlers? Jeepers I never watch em at crici..haha
Holland will do well to reach 250. Though ten Doeschante might run out of partners before they get there.
Neth 149/4 after 33 overs
Too bad Nannes doesn’t play for the netherland anymore.
Hope they can bat their full 50 overs. Would make a game of this.
Still never thought they would even get this score right now.
Doeschate still in once he goes that will be it all over.
162/4 35 Overs ..
I smell an Indian bookie
@Puma (Comment 51) :
Holland have never really been pushovers .. its their bowling and fielding thats lacking.
And back to the rugby.. 😀
186/4 after 39 overs.
@csb (Comment 53) : I really don’t watch them at cricket. So have no idea.
I used to live there years back and really never thought they played cricket at all…..hahaha.
@Puma (Comment 56) :
I lived in Den Haag for 7 years recently ..They love their cricket ..sure mostly played on mats but good fun.
They also have one of the oldest cricket clubs in the world.
They’ll never be world beaters but I have a soft spot for them 😀
200 is up after 41.1 overs.
Doeschate on 78 off 88 balls. Wonder if he will make a 100?
@csb (Comment 57) : I lived in Amstelveen first then moved to Den Haag. Where about did you live there?
Honestly never saw a cricket field there ever….haha. Thought the country was too small for a crici field..hahaha. Just joking. 🙂
@csb (Comment 57) : Yeah, I have a spoft spot for the Dutch too. Really enjoyed my time there.
Really enjoyed them here during the world cup. Wanted them to win it really bad. Pity it never turned out like that.
@Puma (Comment 60) :
😆 yea you got to know where they are and look for em ..well hidden 😉
Know Amstelveen nice dorp.
I stayed in Schievingen
@Puma (Comment 61) : spoft = soft
209/4 42 overs and batting powerplay being aken.
I hope Doeschate gets his 100.
@csb (Comment 62) : The nice thing about Amstelveen it was really close to Amsterdam. Really enjoyed Amsterdam a lot.
Scheveningen must have been nice being by the beach and all. I was at Leidsenhage, just a tram ride away from Leidsenhage.
@Puma (Comment 61) :
Grew very fond of them as a people ..Love to Party !
Me too wanted them desperatly to win the WC but they were very poor on the night against a very good Spanish side.
Jeez a delay of 10 min cause the sidescreen board is faulty 🙄
@csb (Comment 64) : Doeschate on 86. Deserves to get a 100 here. Hope he does.
@Puma (Comment 65) :
Amsterdam in summer is a beautiful thing ..especially when you know where to go off the beaten track.
Did loads of cyclying in and around Holland and Belguim.
Nice and flat 😛
@Puma (Comment 65) :
Some of the best beach parties I ever been too.
And with the sun setting at 11 at night it was a blast 😀
@csb (Comment 66) : Yeah, anything for a party with the Dutch. Had plenty great times there.
Great pity they played like that in the final of the wc. But they made the final.
@csb (Comment 68) : I done plenty cycling there too. The flat made it easier…hahaha.
Used to go into Germany and sometimes Belgium on the weekends. Everything so close there. The transport system must be the best in the world. On time to the second..hahaha.
Those late evenings are great. Something I do miss back here in SA.
I called 250 but they might get up to 270 here
Doeschate on 95 off 95 balls. Really great that. Hope he makes a 100.
@Puma (Comment 71) : I hear japan’s transport system makes europe’s look like amateurs!
@Puma (Comment 73) : Hup holland hup
Oustanding batting Ryan!
@Puma (Comment 71) :
A hour or 2 in any direction and you in a different country ..Loved that.
Well Done Doeschate !
103 off 98 balls
Comes off England overthrows 😆
Doeschate gets a 100. Well done. 😎
@csb (Comment 77) : Was great that just a hop and away from another country. Used to go and ski a lot while there. Went to France mostly to ski. Loved the sport.
@Puma (Comment 79) : should check my posts before I submit..hahaha.
Meant a hop and a skip away.
270 – 280 would be a great effort.
Pity they don’t have the bowlers to contain England.
Fantastic effort from the Dutchmen. 😎
Netherlands 254 for 5 after 46 overs
@McLovin (Comment 82) :
😆
Run rate up to 5.49 now. Who knows maybe Holland can bowl em out..hehe. Never thought I would see them get a score like this against England.
259/5 after 46 overs.
@McLovin (Comment 82) : 🙂
The crowd have taken to the Dutch, they got their flag and waving it… 🙂 Just got to love it. 😎
274 for 5 after 48 overs! 🙂
For those who don’t know, ten Doeschate is a Saffer. 😎
Come on I want to see that 300!
@csb (Comment 84) : @Puma (Comment 86) : Just love a thread were you can say Dutchmen and no-one is offended.
@klempie (Comment 89) :
Well not anymore 😮
Doeschate gone, what a fantastic knock by him. 119 off 110 balls.
@McLovin (Comment 91) : I know 🙂 Cause these okes are the REAL Dutchmen… 😛
8 Saffers playing today. 😆
@Puma (Comment 94) :
@klempie (Comment 89) : Well he had to have had Dutch parents with a name like that 😛
We are everywhere these days. Our talent has no bounds… 😛 🙂
Got Eng by 7 wickets on SB. 🙄
Have to say Eng were quite mediocre in the field today. 😐
Die pommies kak nou af! 🙂
@McLovin (Comment 99) :
Thats being kind , they have been dire.
286 for 6 after 49 overs
286/6 after 49 overs.
14 off the last over for 300 ..
You Can DOIT !!
@klempie (Comment 95) : 😆
@csb (Comment 101) : Plenty of super silly mistakes.
And they drop another catch. 😆
@Puma (Comment 105) : MUST be some sort of record.
So….. How much are England being paid for this game? Seriously?
@klempie (Comment 95) :
Another dropped catch by England ..
Early days but do we have another Ireland vs Pakistan on the cards here ..
And they say Dutchmen can’t play cricket. 😉
Just have to listen to the English commentators… Good laugh. 😆
Damn, I wish I’d been watching this.
I love the Associates. Except when they do US in of course.
@Ben (Comment 108) :
Not enough .. Clearly ! 😉
@csb (Comment 113) : No! I mean to throw the game!
Holland 292/6 after 50 overs. Run rate 5.84
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT? 🙂
296/6 50 overs
Me thinks the English don’t enjoy their Currie diet .. 😀
And that’s that. 292/6. Well done the Dutch! A nice competitive total. A couple of quick wickets up front will leave the Poms running around like headless chickens.
Great batting dutch! 292 for 6. I just think 300 would have been a great mental barrier.
@Ben (Comment 114) :
I know hence my wink silly nana 😎
Now hope the saffa Dutch are better than the saffa English… in bowling..hehe.
Heck I am loving this. Even if Holland lose, it was fun.
HUP HUP HOLLAND. Go the men in orange.. 😎
Do hope the Dutch can bowl them out. Would be great.
Okay need to do a bit of work now. Catch up later.
Hou maak jy hou maak jy.. 😆
Let me ply my trade at fifa 11! 🙂
Cricinfo.
Well, well, well, well, well … we have a match, and some! Just as England did the decent thing in 2009 and played a stinker on the opening night of the World Twenty20, they have turned the 2011 World Cup into a truly global event by bowling out of their prams against the minnows of the Netherlands.
ROFLLMFAO!!
12 from the first over. 😐
Awesome stuff Holland. 😛
Free video streaming here (if you can bear the Indian ads)
http://cricketworldcup2011livescore.blogspot.com/p/live-cricket-score-streaming-worldcup.html
32 from the first 4 overs.
This is better,
http://www.mips.tv/channel.php?u=29196
50 up in the 9th over.
i got england by 7 wickets.hope it goes that way
53/0 off 10.
Strauss 50 from 34 balls.
100 partnership up.
100 from 102 balls.
Pity the Dutch don’t have any good bowlers. The two English Saffa batsmen are just to good.
Pietersen gone for 39.
105/1
England still going solidly. 121 for 1 after 22
131 for 1 after 24 overs
68 balls since england’s last boundary.
154-1
Strauss GONE for 88. Eng 166 for 2
198-2
Eng require 86 to win of 72 balls with 8 wickets in hand.
215-2
Trott stumped and has to trot back to the changing room.
@McLovin (Comment 147) : Trott trots back! 🙂
225-3
68 more to win
56 from 48 balls needed.
The bell tolls for Bell.
4th wicket gone.
52 needed from 41 balls.
Should be easy for England now. Then if the Dutch could take another wicket or two, that could change it up a bit.
Eng need 29 of 23 balls. 6 wickets in hand
3 overs to go.
23 runs needed.
13 needed from 2 overs.
13 needed of 12
7 from 11 balls
1 run needed from 9 balls.
Eng win by 6 wickets.
England win by 6 wickets! Great display from the netherlands though. Well done.
Had Eng to win by 7 wickets on SB. So close. 😐
@McLovin (Comment 162) : I had eng by 8 wickets! Darn!
Seems to be a few Aussies in the Dutch side as well.
Ryan ten Doeschate man of the match! Well deserved.
England by 6 wickets. With my 1st margin point, I sommer receive a bonus point aswell although its shared 😛