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T20 World Cup 2024: Max O’Dowd Leads Netherlands to Victory
T20 World Cup 2024: Max O’Dowd Leads Netherlands to Victory
The Netherlands chose to ball first after winning the toss against Nepal.
The Netherlands had a close six-wicket win against Nepal in their first T20 World Cup match in Dallas. They chased a target of 107 runs with only eight balls left. Max O’Dowd’s steady, unbeaten half-century helped secure the win for Scott Edwards’s team.
Max O’Dowd scored 54 runs without getting out, helping the Netherlands win even when the game was tense on a good pitch for bowlers. The Netherlands needed more than one run per ball after the 17th over, but O’Dowd’s important hits against Abinash Bohara made sure they won before the last over. He was lucky when he was dropped at 41 runs, which made a big difference in the game.
Nepal:
Initial Overs - 29/2 (6x4s)
The Netherlands won the toss and chose to bowl first in the conditions that were good for swinging and seaming the ball. Their surprising choice to have a spinner bowl first worked right away. Tim Pringle, the left-arm spinner, got Asif Sheikh out quickly. Then Logan van Beek took Kushal Bhurtel’s wicket in his first over. Van Beek almost got Rohit Paudel out too, but a review showed that Paudel’s bat hit the ball saving him.
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Middle Overs – 46/4 (5x4s)
This is when Nepal started losing the game. The Netherlands bowlers took wickets regularly. First, Anil Sah was out trying to sweep a ball from Tim Pringle. Then Paul Van Meekeren got Kushal Malla caught at mid-on. Nepal was 53/4 after 10 overs. Bas De Leede and Paul van Meekeren took 2 more wickets with great bowling, getting Dipendra Singh caught and bowling out Sompal Kami.
·Death Overs – 31/4 (3x6s)
Paudel, who scored the most runs with 35, was out in the 16th over, giving Pringle his third wicket. Van Beek also took three wickets, ending the innings by getting Gulsan Jha and Abhinash Bohra out one after the other. Karan KC scored 17 runs from 12 balls, helping Nepal reach 106, but they were all out with four balls left.
Netherlands:
·Initial Overs – 36/1 (6x4s)
Karan KC bowled three overs during the Powerplay to help Nepal stop the other team from scoring too many runs. He also got Michael Levitt out when Levitt hit the ball high into the air. Even though the Nepali bowlers were doing well, Max O’Dowd and Vikramjit Singh kept scoring runs steadily, about one run for each ball they faced.
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Middle Overs – 43/2 (2x4s)
The game stayed very close between the two teams during the middle overs. Nepal’s bowlers gave up only three fewer runs than their batters had scored. In this part of the game, the Netherlands only hit two boundaries and reached 52 runs for 2 wickets after 10 overs. Vikramjit Singh got out when Dipendra Singh trapped him leg before wicket (lbw). Sybrand Engelbrecht was run out at the beginning of the 14th over, which boosted Nepal’s confidence so that they could defend their score.
·Final Overs – 30/1 in just 3.4 Overs
In the last five overs, Scott Edwards was bowled out by Abinash Bohara. Then, Sagar Dhakal bowled a very tight 17th over, giving away only four runs, making the game even closer. In the 19th over, O'Dowd hit a six and a four in a row, which nearly secured the win for the Netherlands.
Summary of Scores:
Nepal scored 106 runs in 19.2 overs (Paudel made 35 runs; Pringle took 3 wickets for 20 runs, van Beek took 3 wickets for 18 runs) and lost to Netherlands who scored 109 runs for 4 wickets in 18.4 overs (O'Dowd made 54 runs not out; Dipendra took 1 wicket for 6 runs) by 6 wickets.
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