England v Netherlands | World T20 | Lords | 5/6/09 [Netherlands WIN]

[Oxy]

Match scheduled to begin at 17:30 local time - RAIN has delayed proceedings in the opening fixture of the World T20.

Not looking good as the extended covers on the outfield come on.

Raining heavily

England squad
PD Collingwood*, JM Anderson, RS Bopara, SCJ Broad, JS Foster†, RWT Key, AD Mascarenhas, EJG Morgan, GR Napier, KP Pietersen, AU Rashid, OA Shah, RJ Sidebottom, GP Swann, LJ Wright

Netherlands squad
J Smits, PW Borren, Mudassar Bukhari, TN de Grooth, TJG Gruijters, MMA Jonkman, AN Kervezee, DP Nannes, DJ Reekers, E Schiferli, PM Seelaar, ES Szwarczynski, RN ten Doeschate, DLS van Bunge, B Zuiderent

Pietersen is ruled out due to injury.

 

[Kashi786]

it will be raining every da yfor next couple of days, i hope 5 over play is possible for every match

 

[Ali888]

Atherton on Sky right now saying impressed by Mohammed Aamer ... "quick" and also Ahmed Shahzad

also Azhar Mahmood getting praised by him

 

[Da Best]

England vs The Netherlands | 5th June | England Lord's

It's starting to rain a bit not too great to hear. No toss no squads. First match T20 WC.

 

[Kashi786]

Oh. Dear. Still, not even the ICC can prevent the rain falling. It's been an inauspicious start to say the least.

 

[12thMan]

covers are coming off. coin toss in few min and looking for a 5:50 start

 

[Da Best]

Teams annouced

England : 1 Ravi Bopara, 2 Luke Wright, 3 Rob Key, 4 Owais Shah, 5 Paul Collingwood (capt), 6 Eoin Morgan, 7 James Foster (capt), 8 Adil Rashid, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Ryan Sidebottom, 11 James Anderson

And apparently no Dutch squad!

 

[Da Best]

So it's probable that we'll see some cricket now I think.

 

[Oxy]

Netherlands won the toss - and have put England into bat

 

[Da Best]

The Dutch bowlin'.

 

[pak4life]

Feels like a funeral at lords. Come on guys liven it up!

 

[Kashi786]

who is this guy, i thout its going to be queen or prince of wales

 

[Kashi786]

this is beautiful united kingdom, welcome to england

 

[Kashi786]

i think it going to be national anthem before every match, amazing

 

[Da Best]

Any links ?

 

[Kashi786]

neaherlands

 

[Kashi786]

england

 

[Salman]

nice bounce off the pitch in the 1st over...

 

[Saudi]

Nannes hitting 150ks easily.

The speedguns here in England are definitely different to those in the IPL.

He looks express though.

 

[CricVet]

Well bowled nannes

 

[Kashi786]

nannes turning inside out of bopara

 

[CricVet]

Pies from the Other side

 

[CricVet]

4

 

[CricVet]

Should nannes continue now. he should

 

[CricVet]

Man he coverred a lot of geound but no way

 

[Lethal]

38-0 after 5 overs.

England going along nicely.

 

[Lethal]

4 to Wright over mid on.

 

[Lethal]

Cracking shot from Wright through the covers. Another 4.

 

[Lethal]

Expensive over.

51-0 after 6 overs.

 

[Da Best]

Really goin England's way here.

 

[Plasma]

They gotta stop bowling too full and to the leg side, what can you expect if you keep bowling that way?

 

[CricVet]

It was supposed to go Eng way. Only Nannes could do anything. He bowled well and in my opinion should have finished his quota.

 

[srh]

English openers playing sensible cricket.

 

[shahzadddd]

England 110/1 (13.0/20 ov)

Luke Wright 50 from 37
Shah 5 from 7

 

[bone_thug786]

"Isn't it great to see a T20 match without those stupid strategic timeouts," Josh Wilkinson spits.

 

[Osman]

well got Bopara in my fantasy team so decent start for me

 

[On_the_up]

Nannes hit 92mph in his spell, Bopara looked classy whereas Wright was just slogging, not pretty at all.

 

[shahzadddd]

England 127/2 (15.3/20 ov)

Wright 61 from 44

 

[Amjid Javed]

Eng 127/2 after 15.3 overs

england should get 160-70 here!

 

[shahzadddd]

Morgan gone:

15.4


Borren to Morgan, OUT, reverse-swept straight to point! Usually such a productive shot for Morgan, and he timed this especially impressively, but just picked out the fielder


c Zuiderent b Borren 6 (8b 0x4 0x6) SR: 75.00

 

[Amjid Javed]

Morgan gone now.

England 128/3

 

[Alam_dar]

How much Pakistan would score against this nietherland's attack?

 

[CricVet]

Eng batting looks not so good.

 

[CricnPak]

Very impressive death bowling from Nannes.

 

[CricnPak]

Who would have thought that the Dutch and English would play a close game (so far) in cricket and not football? Such is the beauty of T20...

 

[junoon]

england score 162/5 in 20 overs

If Dutch get a good start, it could be a close and interesting game

 

[IM NOT YOU]

england batting is terrible for t20 .

100 after 11 overs and still could only manage 160. with 9 wickets in hand

this team is going nowhere LOL

 

[amit]

Who would have thought that the Dutch and English would play a close game (so far) in cricket and not football? Such is the beauty of T20...

13 years ago in the 1996 world cup, these 2 teams played a close game with holland losing by only 40-something runs. holland were in the game after de leede, noortwijk & zuiderent played decent knocks. and that close game was in cricket

 

[amit]

come on holland. hoping to c zuiderent, ten doeschate & co fire & hopefully holland win

and amazing bowling by nannes, apart from his 1st over, his other 3 overs were just great & didnt give away any free runs in the end. and was unlucky not to pick up any wickets

 

[On_the_up]

First wicket down for Holland

 

[Da Best]

Disciplined bowling is required from England, but I think Holland will run away with this.

 

[Da Best]

Intersting fielding placements from England, only one slip.

 

[On_the_up]

Baz in next
2-1 after one over

 

[Da Best]

First wicket gone.

 

[Da Best]

Good line and length from Jimmy here.

 

[Da Best]

Oh taht was out.

 

[On_the_up]

Netherlands won't get more than 140 here. They have to play out Anderson

 

[On_the_up]

Six, a slap to mid wicket

 

[Da Best]

The Dutch deffenatly need to play out of there skins to win.

 

[On_the_up]

10-1 after two overs

 

[On_the_up]

Shot for four through mid wicket

 

[On_the_up]

Good Yorker by Anderson

 

[On_the_up]

Six more is all happening

 

[Da Best]

If England loose here tell ya what that would be one hell of a victory for Holland.

 

[Da Best]

Great yorker.

 

[shaun3]

This Reekers guys is hitting the ball quite well, may be able to single handedly take the game away from england if he can survive anderson and sidebottom

 

[Da Best]

It's heating up now.

 

[Da Best]

Problem with the Dutch they look bored, '' we hit it great we don't fine by me ''

 

[shaun3]

aaaaaaaaaand gone

 

[Da Best]

Is my link slow or what!

 

[Da Best]

Ok he's out Reekers.

 

[asad100101]

A win for England

 

[CricVet]

hey hey hey, game is still on. 46 in 6

 

[insaftak]

SIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!! these guys are not that bad

 

[CricVet]

52

 

[Da Best]

Not yet over.

 

[CricVet]

well, this will be interesting

 

[Da Best]

SIXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!! these guys are not that bad

Theres alot of batting power, but cant take singles or wickets will hurt the side severly.

 

[CricVet]

Adil might choke the runs and could get some wkts

 

[CricVet]

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