ICC World Cup; England Managed to Win against Netherlands
England won their opening match against Netherlands by 6 wickets in the ICC World Cup 2011.
ICC Cricket World Cup; England Vs Netherlands
England managed to win their opening match in the ICC World world cup match against Netherlands by 6 wickets. After winning the toss, Netherlands captain elected to first. Even though England won the match, it was Netherlands' day.Their Ryan ten Doeschate produced a scintillating 119 from 110 balls, and followed up with the brilliant bowling figures of 2 for 47 in ten overs, to give England one of the biggest frights of their international lives. Their batting platform played like a well experienced professionals. England's bowling line up failed in front of their batting line up and scored a wonderful 292 from 50 overs at the loss of 6 wickets.
After winning the toss, Netherlands captain elected to bat first. Their openers gave a good start and they loss their opener Kervezee when the score was 36. he sored 16 from 25 bowls. The opening Non striker, Barressi scored a scintillating 29 off 25 bowls. Ryan ten Doeschate produced a scintillating 119 from 110 balls, and followed up with the brilliant bowling figures of 2 for 47 in ten overs, to give England one of the biggest frights of their international lives. His century includes 9 fours and 3 sixes at a strike rate of 108. They made a wonderful 50 runs in 31 balls (RN ten Doeschate 32, PW Borren 17, Ex 4) as a sixth wicket partnership. Their Borren 35 from 24 balls in the last moment helped them to score 292 from 50 overs. For England Broad and Swann took 2 wickets each.
Fall of wickets 1-36 (Kervezee, 6.2 ov), 2-58 (Barresi, 11.4 ov), 3-136 (Cooper, 28.1 ov), 4-149 (Zuiderent, 32.5 ov), 5-213 (de Grooth, 42.5 ov), 6-274 (ten Doeschate, 48.1 ov)
In return, England played their innings consciously without loosing the wickets. They made a wonderful opening partnership of 105 runs before Peterson was caught by Cooper in Bukhari's ball. Strauss scored a wonderful 88 runs of 83 with 9 boundaries and with a strike rate of 106. They played the entire match with an average about 6. I L Trott scored 62 off 65 which includes 4 boundaries at strike rate of 95. Collingwood and Bopara finished the match with 8 balls to spare. Collingwood scored 30 of 23 balls and Bopara scored 30 of 23 balls.
Fall of wickets1-105 (Pietersen, 17.4 ov), 2-166 (Strauss, 29.2 ov), 3-224 (Trott, 40.1 ov), 4-241 (Bell, 42.6 ov)
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