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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Netherlands stuns West Indies in World Cup qualifier

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Jason Holder of West Indies runs out Saqib Zulfiqar of Netherlands during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier Zimbabwe 2023 match between the West Indies and Netherlands at Takashinga Cricket Club in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Jason Holder of West Indies runs out Saqib Zulfiqar of Netherlands during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifier Zimbabwe 2023 match between the West Indies and Netherlands at Takashinga Cricket Club in Harare, Zimbabwe.

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Lo­gan van Beek’s su­per over hero­ics led Nether­lands to a fa­mous win over West In­dies, who suf­fered their sec­ond con­sec­u­tive ICC Men’s Crick­et World Cup Qual­i­fi­er 2023 de­feat.

Van Beek struck 30 with the bat be­fore tak­ing the ball and con­ced­ing just eight, lead­ing his side to a vic­to­ry which saw them fin­ish sec­ond in Group A and take two valu­able points in­to the Su­per Six stage.

Else­where, Sean Williams’ swash­buck­ling 174 helped Zim­bab­we main­tain their 100 per cent record as they beat USA by 304 runs.

A Harare thriller saw both sides fin­ish on 374 from their 50 overs, at which point van Beek took cen­tre stage.

Hav­ing fall­en falling to the fi­nal ball of the reg­u­lar in­nings for a 14-ball 28 with just a sin­gle re­quired, the all-rounder struck three six­es and three fours from the su­per over bowled by Ja­son Hold­er.

Hold­er had ear­li­er held a bril­liant catch to dis­miss van Beek and force the un­like­ly tie but the Dutch­man then seized con­trol, re­mov­ing John­son Charles and Ro­mario Shep­herd with con­sec­u­tive balls fol­low­ing his fire­works with the bat to de­cide the out­come.

The Windies start­ed strong­ly with the bat af­ter be­ing put in as open­ers John­son Charles and Bran­don King (76) added 101 be­fore the for­mer was trapped lbw for 54.

Saqib Zul­fiqar dis­missed Sharmah Brooks (25) and King (76) in con­sec­u­tive overs be­fore an­oth­er cen­tu­ry stand, this time be­tween Shai Hope and Nicholas Pooran, end­ed when Hope was caught on the rope look­ing to bring up a half-cen­tu­ry with a max­i­mum.

Pooran brought up his sec­ond con­sec­u­tive cen­tu­ry be­fore kick­ing on with Keemo Paul as the Windies ham­mered 61 off the last five overs.

Nether­lands open­ers Vikramjit Singh (37) and Max O’Dowd (36) added 71 in­side 10 overs in re­ply but Ros­ton Chase dis­missed both as West In­dies fought back.

Wes­ley Bar­resi (27) and Bas de Leede (33) kept Nether­lands on track and af­ter both were re­moved by Akeal Ho­sein, Te­ja Nidama­nu­ru and cap­tain Scott Ed­wards put on 143 from just 15 overs to set up a fran­tic fin­ish.

Ed­wards (67) was first to go and the game was back in the bal­ance when cen­tu­ri­on Nidama­nu­ru (111) picked out Chase at third man.

Aryan Dutt (16) and van Beek took the equa­tion to five from as many balls but Joseph took two wick­ets at the death to force a su­per over.

Van Beek made no mis­take at the sec­ond time of ask­ing to lead his side to a mo­men­tous vic­to­ry fol­low­ing their high­est-ever ODI score.

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