The Netherlands have been South Africa’s bogey staff in latest tournaments.
A Dutch win over the Proteas on the final T20 World Cup on the Adelaide Oval ended South Africa’s semi-final hopes.
Then finally 12 months’s 50-over model the Oranje sprung one other shock in Dharamsala once they ended South Africa’s unbeaten run within the match.
South Africa would have been determined to keep away from the embarrassment of a defeat to the Affiliate nation, the place there’s a small however enthusiastic cricket group numbering some 6,000 energetic gamers.
There was definitely a zeal to the best way by which the Proteas’ bowlers approached their activity, hitting the precise lengths with glorious use of the brief ball.
Anrich Nortje (2-19) and Marco Jansen (2-20) backed up the superb Baartman.
They had been, nonetheless, blunted by Engelbrecht, a former South Africa under-19 participant who moved to the Netherlands to work in actual property, as he rescued his facet from a parlous place.
He solely hit two fours and one six however eked the Dutch to some kind of complete with help from Logan van Beek’s helpful 23.
A weekend environment on the floor attended by folks from round globe – there are apparently 800 languages spoken in New York – created the most effective environment at this venue in Eisenhower Park up to now.
Quinton de Kock’s run out for a duck with out dealing with started a sequence of wickets which noticed any of 14,167 crowd, principally cheering on the Dutch, lingering on the pretzel, scorching canine and bagel stalls rush again into the stands.
Reeza Hendricks was bowled by a magnificence from Van Beek, Aiden Markram was strangled down the leg facet by the spectacular Vivian Kingma (2-12) who then snared Heinrich Klaasen.
There will need to have been panic within the South Africa dressing room however a mix of youth and expertise plugged the holes in what appeared to be a sinking ship.
Stubbs had struggled in South Africa’s first recreation on this pitch, however performed with calm fluency alongside the clever head of Miller.
Paul van Meekeren’s miserly 4 overs, costing simply 13 runs, saved the Dutch within the contest earlier than De Leede and Van Beek eliminated Stubbs and Jansen.
Miller pointedly turned down a single off the final ball of seventeenth over and backed himself to get the job executed towards De Leede within the penultimate over. He did simply that.