New Zealand, the runners-up of the last World Cup, won by 99 runs against the Netherlands in the sixth and their second match of the World Cup. After losing the toss and batting first, the Black Caps scored 322 runs with the half-centuries of Will Young, Rachin Ravindra and captain Tom Latham. In response, Mitchell Santner's bowling ball ended with 223 runs for the Netherlands, who played in the main stage of the World Cup from the qualifiers.
Netherlands captain Scott Edwards won the toss and invited New Zealand to bat at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad on Monday (October 9). In this match, the Kiwis will play without the regular captain Kane Williamson. Two openers Will Young and Devon Conway batted cautiously at the start. Devon Conway, who scored 32 runs in 12.1 balls of the innings, broke the opening pair of 67 runs when he was dismissed by Marui.
After that, another centurion of the last match, Rachin Ravindra came to the crease and formed a pair with Young. The Kiwis went ahead with a big collection in the pair of 77 runs. Will Young came back empty-handed in the England match and scored a half-century in the match. He scored 70 runs off 80 balls. The Kiwis' innings later saw two more fifties and a fifty. Rachin Ravindra scored 51 off 51 balls and captain Tom Latham scored 53 off 46 balls. All-rounder Darrell Mitchell played an innings of 48 runs. In the end, Mitchell Santner's storm of 36 runs in 1.7 balls made New Zealand 322 runs for 7 wickets on the scoreboard. As a result, the Netherlands faced a target of 323 runs to win.
Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren and van der Merwe took two wickets each for the Dutch. All-rounder Bass de Lead took 1 wicket for 64 runs.
The Netherlands started looking to bat for the win. However, the two openers Bikramjit Singh and Max and Dawood got out for 12 and 16 runs after settling on the wicket. After the departure of two openers, Colin Ackerman took charge of the team. But no other batter could accompany him. This batsman was dismissed for a personal 69 off 73 balls.
Apart from Colin Ackerman, no other batsman has scored a half-century for the Netherlands. Batting for four, Bass de Leide scored 18 runs off 25 balls. Apart from this, Teja Nidamanuru, captain Scott Edwards and Sybrand Engelbrecht were out with 21, 30 and 20 runs respectively. Aryan Dutta scored 11 runs. No other batter reached double figures for the Netherlands. As a result, the Dutch team was reduced to 223 runs in 46.3 overs.
Mitchell Santner was man of the match for New Zealand with five wickets in this match. Matt Henry took three wickets and Rachin Ravindra took one wicket. The remaining one wicket came through a run out.
With this victory, the Black Caps reached the top of the points table with two wins in two matches of the current World Cup. They will play against Bangladesh in their third match on October 13. On the other hand, the Netherlands, who are at the bottom of the points table after losing two matches, will play against South Africa in their third match on October 17.
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