Photo Credit: Cricket Ireland
This week, the Dutch men’s team will play two ODIs against Scotland on Wednesday 19 and Friday 21 May at the VOC site in Rotterdam. The start is at 11 a.m. on both days. Due to the corona measures (even after the relaxation of May 19), no spectators are allowed on the site. Instead, the matches will be streamed on the KNCB YouTube channel.Click here directly to the livestreams!
Experienced Scottish selection
For Scotland, the two ODIs against the Netherlands will be the first international games since the team played in the third round of the CWC League 2 in Dubai in December 2019 against the UAE and the USA. The two subsequent World Cup qualifying rounds in which Scotland would play have now been postponed again due to the corona pandemic. Coach Shane Burger takes a very experienced selection to the Netherlands. Read more about it here .
The Netherlands recently played a three-country tournament in Nepal against the host country and Malaysia. National coach Ryan Campbell mainly used this tournament to give a number of young players many opportunities and to give them international experience.
The last time that the Netherlands and Scotland met in an official ODI dates back to almost ten years ago. The two countries played two international matches in Aberdeen in 2011, both of which were won by the host country.
Preview national coach Ryan Campbell
“Scotland and the Netherlands have set the bar for international Associate Cricket for the past five years and I don’t expect anything else in these two ODIs. Our men have been looking forward to taking on the Scots for months. after our tour to Ireland with the A-squad and it is an opportunity for us to get a good picture of our youngest players. Aryan Dutt will have his first confrontation with an international ODI and he will join Bas de Leede, Philippe Boissevain Scott Edwards have to get the best out of himself to support captain Pieter Seelaar and win this series. “
The Dutch selection
- Pieter Seelaar (C)
- Stephan Myburgh
- Max O’Dowd
- Ben Cooper
- Bas de Leede
- Scott Edwards
- Saqib Zulfiqar
- Logan van Beek
- Aryan Dutt
- Paul van Meekeren
- Vivian Kingma
- Tobias Visée
- Phillippe Boissevain
Coach: Ryan Campbell
The Scottish selection
- Kyle Coetzer (c)
- Richard Berrington
- Matthew Cross
- Calum Macleod
- George Munsey
- Dylan Budge
- Mark Watt
- Safyaan Sharif
- Michael Leask
- Craig Wallace
- Ali Evans
- Gavin Main
- Hamza Tahir
- Adrian Neill
Coach: Shane Burger
Name of Author: Cricket Netherlands
The Netherlands men’s national cricket team, known as “The Flying Dutchmen,” represents the Netherlands in international cricket and is administered by the Royal Dutch Cricket Association.
