Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 02:30:36 AM

Quote from: Popkon6 on Today at 01:53:25 AM

If Netherlands players MaxODowd and TomCooper could have scored centuries, Zimbabwe's chances of victory here would have been slim. Netherland's fortunes turned out to be their biggest defeat as Max failed to score a century for just 19 runs. And Netherlands bowling needs to be more experienced to attack the opposition players with fast balls. And the Netherlands suffered the biggest loss with two wickets dismissed which left their match brutally in a run deficit and two wickets up. Had the Netherlands been careful with the wickets, they would have had a chance to win. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe played to the target despite not having a wicket in hand which ensured their win.

Netherlands were firmly cruising to victory and at one point they were at 166/1 after 33 overs. At this point they needed 105 runs to win, from 17 overs (at around 6 runs per over). They had 9 wickets in hand and there for had a win probability of more than 90%. But the moment when Tom Cooper got run out, fortunes were reversed. He was the more aggressive batsmen and both Max O'Dowd and Colin Ackermann were unable to keep up with the required rate. After Cooper got out, Netherlands batsmen were scoring at the rate of around 2-runs per over and they lost the match right there.

This was an unexpected result for me. I thought the Netherlands would win. Because the performance of the top-order players was outstanding. The first 5 batsmen of the Netherlands' top order played very well. But no other batsman was able to perform well. The Netherlands lost three wickets for 197 runs. They failed to collect only 73 runs. However, the performance of Zimbabwe's bowlers in S10 overs was good. Sikandar Raza and Wessly Madhevera took 3 wickets each. I would say that the Zimbabwean team was able to win this match because of the controlled bowling of those two bowlers.