The second match of the World Cup 2023 was held in Hyderabad today. The Netherlands team entered the match against the strong Pakistan team. Taking the Imitation of the match between England and New Zealand held yesterday, the Netherlands team won the toss and invited Pakistan to bat.
Accordingly, Pakistan, who batted first, could only get 286 runs. In the face of the inexperienced Dutch bowlers, the Pakistan batsmen did not have the ability to stay at the wicket until the end of their allotted 50 overs.
And the Dutch bowlers did not allow the Pakistanis to score as much as they wanted.
The fans were hoping that the Pakistan batsmen would score aggressively, but they played very defensively.
Two valuable innings were seen for Pakistan.
Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel scored 68 runs each to build Pakistan’s innings. The 120-run stand between these two for the fourth wicket took Pakistan towards a winning target.
While bowling for the Netherlands, Bas de Leede took four wickets and Colin Ackermann took two wickets.
The Dutch team who played the reply innings could score only 205 runs. But their opening batsman Wickramjit Sing scored a valuable 52 runs. In addition, bas de Leede scored 67 runs but that score was not enough to defeat Pakistan.
All the bowlers who bowled for Pakistan managed to get wickets, out of which Haris Rauf managed to get 3 wickets and Hassan Ali got 2 wickets.
The net run rate for all teams in this year’s World Cup will greatly contribute to the round-robin round. Maintaining a high net run rate will be a big advantage when selecting the final 4 teams. Therefore, it is vital for all teams to keep this fact in mind.
Currently, New Zealand and Pakistan, who have won the two matches, have a good net run rate and it has managed to take the mentality of these 2 teams to a strong state.
