New Zealand beat Netherlands by 99 runs in the 2023 World Cup match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad. Watch the NZ v NED highlights.
On the slow surface of Hyderabad, Scott Edwards opted to defend and started bowling with off-spinner Aryan Dutt. Dutt (2-62) and Ryan Klein started with his three first overs strong>. This has only happened once in the history of the World Cup.
However, New Zealand continued to perform well after that, reaching 63-0 after 10 overs. Will Young (70) and Rachin Ravindra (51 off 51 balls) added to his 77 runs after Devon Conway (32) fell.
Paul van Meekeren (2-59) and Roelof van der Merwe (2-56) continued to score for the Dutch side, with Darryl Mitchell (48 off 47 balls) and stand-in captain Tom Latham (53 off 46 balls) scored. He was neither a fast runner nor had he played the kind of explosive innings that helped New Zealand reach 350.
This was scored by Mitchell Santner in the final stages, with the help of a no-ball and a free-kick, he smashed through with three fours and two sixes, taking his total to 36 off 17 balls. That put New Zealand at 322-7.
In contrast, the score for the Netherlands was 117-3 at one point. A target of 206 off 147 balls with seven wickets in hand was not an improbable goal. But other than Colin Ackerman (69 of 73 pitches), no one hit 30 or more.
Matt Henry won with 3-40, but the star of the show was Santner, who finished with 5-59, the first five-wicket haul by a New Zealand spinner in World Cup history. In fact, with the exception of Daniel Vettori (Providence in 2007, 4 for 23 against Ireland, Napier in 2015, 4 for 18 against Afghanistan), no New Zealand spinner in the tournament has taken even four wickets in one innings. there is not.
Ireland and Afghanistan were both partner states during Vettori’s tenure. The best performance ever recorded by a New Zealand spinner in a World Cup against a full squad remains his 3-24 against Nathan McCullum in the famous quarter-final at Mirpur in 2011 against South Africa.
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