Netherlands shook off their heartbreaking loss to Pakistan in their previous T20 World Cup game with an emphatic win over Namibia in Delhi. An all-round display from Bas de Leede, who picked up two key wickets with the ball before starring in the chase with an unbeaten 72, saw Netherlands cruise to a seven-wicket victory.
Scott Edwards | Netherlands captain: “Yeah, pretty good day I thought, I think we probably got a little bit of the better conditions there. I thought our guys bowled really well through the powerplay, and obviously taking those wickets late and restricting them to what we thought was, yeah, a little bit below-par score.
Gerhard Erasmus | Namibia captain: “Yeah, I thought we did reasonably well, you know, sitting in the powerplay, I thought it was quite a tacky wicket in the start of the morning. So I thought that 42 for one mark was probably a little bit low on runs, but really good in terms of assessing where we are in the game. We saw the ball really stopping a little bit there off spin. So all in all, I thought we did a decent job until the halfway mark, 11-over, 12-over mark to try and get to a competitive total, but we couldn’t quite, you know, push, push that total nice and deep.
Brief Scores: Namibia 156-8 in 20 overs (Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton 42, JJ Smit 22; Logan van Beek 2-13, Bas de Leede 2-20) lost to Netherlands 159/3 (Bas de Leede 72*, Colin Ackermann 32; Bernard Scholtz 1-27) by 7 wickets
