Kolkata is home ground for Bangladesh. Same language, culture, food and even the national anthem of India and Bangladesh are written by the same person. Bangladesh is known to play some good feisty cricket. Its not only disappointing to fans who flew from Dhaka to the Eden Garden to support their team. But, also to the moral of the entire dressing unit.
Shaikh Ali Hasan scored 5 centuries in 2019 World Cup and was one of the top run scorer in the tournament.
BANGLADESH PLAYING XI: Liton Das, Tanzid Hasan, Mehidy Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Shaikh Ali Hasan(c), Mushfiqur Rahim(wk), Mahmudullah, Mahedi Hasan, Taskin Ahmed, Mustafizur Rahman, Shoriful Islam.
NETHERLAND PLAYING XI: Vikramjit Singh, Max O’Dowd, Wesley Barresi, Colin Ackermann, Scott Edwards(c)(wk), Bas de Leede, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Logan van Beek, Shariz Ahmad, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren.
The Dutch decided to bat first with a strategic mindset of letting the out of form Bangladesh batter on-to a run-chase.
Bangladesh strook by dismissing the Dutch openers early in the match. The Dutch were in deep trouble. Skipper Edwards came in the middle to stabilize the innings. Bangladesh drop 2 crucial catches of Edwards at zero.
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Edwards scored 68 off 89. He made sure that the Netherland have enough runs on the board to defend it. His 2nd half century in the tournament and 15 half century in his ODI career. The bowling and fielding unit made sure the skipper effort didn’t go in vain.
In the midst, of Dutch bowling attack. Bangladesh batter didn’t had any reply. Liton Das reverse sweep wasn’t required against the finger spinner at the beginning of the game.
After the initial loss of 2 wickets, Bangladesh batters decided to up the anti and go against the fast medium pacer. It worked for a moment before the colossal collapse of the entire batting unit.
Scott Edwards, the Netherlands skipper: “I was sort of speaking to a couple of guys and we thought that if we could get somewhere around 220+, we would have a chance. They have all been brilliant. Probably a bit of everything. The system has been getting better in Netherlands. We have had a good 18 months. We feel like we are putting the work in and we are getting some of those rewards. We spoke at the start of the tournament about giving us a chance at the semis and that looks tricky but that’ll remain out goal.”
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