Netherlands wins over South Africa by 38 runs in 15th match of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023.

Due to rain match was reduced to 43 overs per side instead of 50 overs.

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Netherlands Innings- Netherlands batted first and started the inning not very well, Scott Edwards played a brilliant unbeaten half-century inning of 78 runs with the help of 1 six and 10 boundaries in 69 balls, apart from this no batsman could play well, Vikramjit Singh dismissed just for 2 runs in 16 balls, Max ODowd 18 runs in 25 balls, Colin Ackermann 13 runs in 25 balls, Bas de Leede 2 runs in 7 balls, Sybrand Engelbrecht 19 runs in 37 balls, Teja Nidamanuru 20 runs in 25 balls, Logan van Beek 10 runs in 27 balls, Roelof van der Merwe 19 runs in 19 balls, Aryan Dutt played an unbeaten quick inning of 23 runs with the help of 3 boundaries in just 9 balls. In this way, Netherlands scored 245 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 43 overs and set a target of 246 runs in front of South Africa.

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South African bowlers- Kagiso Rabada took 2 wickets for 56 runs in 9 overs, Marco Jansen 2 wickets for 27 runs in 8 overs, Lungi Ngidi 2 wickets for 57 runs in 9 overs, Gerald Coetzee 1 wicket for 57 runs in 8 overs, and Keshav Maharaj 1 wicket for 38 runs in 9 overs.

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South Africa Innings- South Africa chasing 256 runs in the second inning the entire team dismissed just for 207 runs in fifth ball of the final over and lost the match by 38 runs. South Africa also started the inning not very well, David Miller played a brilliant inning of 43 runs with the help of 1 six and 4 boundaries in 52 balls, Keshav Maharaj 40 runs with the help of 1 six and 5 boundaries in 37 balls, Heinrich Klaasen 28 runs with the help of 4 boundaries in 28 balls, apart from this no batsman could play well, Temba Bavuma dismissed just for 16 runs in 31 balls, Quinton de Kock 20 runs in 22 balls, Rassie van der Dussen 4 runs in 7 balls, Aiden Markram 1 run in 3 balls, Marco Jansen 9 runs in 25 balls, Gerald Coetzee 22 runs in 23 balls, Kagiso Rabada 9 runs in 7 balls, and Lungi Ngidi remained unbeaten for 7 runs in 24 balls. In this way, the entire team dismissed just for 207 runs in 42.5 overs and lost the match by 38 runs.

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Netherlands bowlers- Logan van Beek took 3 wickets just for 60 runs in 8.5 overs, Roelof van der Merwe 2 wickets just for 34 runs in 9 overs, Bas de Leede 2 wickets just for 36 runs in 8 overs, Paul van Meekeren 2 wickets for 40 runs in 9 overs, Colin Ackermann 1 wicket for 16 runs in 3 overs, and Aryan Dutt was wicketless for 19 runs in 5 overs.

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PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Netherlands batsman Scott Edwards was selected as the player of the match, he played a very brilliant unbeaten powerful half-century inning of 78 runs with the help of 1 six and 10 boundaries in 69 balls.
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