Pakistan vs Netherlands ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Live Score Updates: Bas de Leede clinched 4 wickets to restrict Pakistan innings to 286. Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan played in a crucial partnership to recover the team from early losses. Catch LIVE updates here
Pakistan vs Netherlands, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Score Updates:
Netherlands' Bas de Leede (C) celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket
Pakistan vs Netherlands, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Score Updates: Netherlands' Bas de Leede (C) celebrates with teammates after taking the wicket
LIVE Pakistan vs Netherlands, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Score Updates: Bas de Leede bowled a wonderful spell to restrict Pakistan innings to 286 runs. The Netherlands pacers dominated in initial 10 overs as they clinched 3 early wickets, but then Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel played in a wonderful partnership to pull back Pakistan from a low-scoring end.
Aryan Dutt provided the team a breakthrough as he dismissed Saud Shakeel. Bas de Leede took from there and dismissed Mohammad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan and Hasan Ali to derail the Pakistan batting.
Netherlands dominated the first 10 overs of the game as they successfully dismissed three Pakistan batters including skipper Babar Azam. But, then Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel came to stabilise the innings are led the comeback of the team.
Pakistan is batting first against Netherlands in Hyderabad after losing the toss to the Dutch side. Skipper Babar Azam at the toss said that his side will score over 290 runs in what is expected to be a high scoring encounter.
Pakistan and the Netherlands face off today at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad in their opening match of the ICC World Cup 2023.
Pakistan, led by captain Babar Azam, will be looking to make a strong start to the tournament before two crucial matches against Sri Lanka on October 10 and arch-rivals India on October 14. The Men in Green have had disappointing results in both the warm-up matches, losing to New Zealand in the first one and to Australia in the second one.
The Netherlands, on the other hand, will be looking to cause an upset and send a message to all the other competing teams by defeating Pakistan in their opening match of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023. Both of the Netherlands' warm-up matches were washed out due to rain. In the first warm-up match, Australia batted for 23 overs and the Netherlands batted for around 14 overs before the match was finally called off. The second match was abandoned without a ball being bowled.
The Netherlands are the only Associate nation in this tournament. They made their debut in 1996 and lost all five matches they played. In the qualifiers, they announced themselves with a statement win over West Indies in a super-over after the score was level at 374.
Pakistan vs Netherlands, ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 Key Highlights:
1. Netherlands won the toss and chose to field against Pakistan
2. Logan van Beek and Colin Ackermann striked early to derail Pakistan top order including skipper Babar Azam
3. Paul van Meekeren took out Imam-ul-Haq to give another jolt to Pakistan
4. Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel are currently on the crease trying to stabilise the innings
5. The duo played well to pull back Pakistan in the game with their respective half-centuries
6. Spinner Aryan Dutt provided Netherlands with a breakthrough as he dismissed dangerous Saud Shakeel
7. Bas de Leede continued the attack and took two crucial wickets- Mohammad Rizwan and Iftikhar Ahmed
8. Bas de Leede kept the pressure up and also dismissed Shadab Khan and Hasan Ali.
9. The match came to the last wicket and finally wicketkeeper Scott Edwards showed exceptional skills to restrict Pakistan innings to 286
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