Value addition: Vice-captain O’Dowd and skipper Edwards will likely be happy with the utility of the former’s pocket notes.
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The Netherlands has demanded consideration at the cricket World Cup. After gorgeous South Africa to register one of the World Cup’s greatest upsets of all time, the Men in Orange, ranked lowest amongst the 10 groups, defeated Bangladesh on Saturday.
The sheet of paper that vice-captain Max O’Dowd typically takes out of his pocket once they discipline has attracted a good bit of consideration too. So what’s the story behind it?
‘Best wicketkeeper’
Captain Scott Edwards, who, in keeping with veteran India gloveman Dinesh Karthik, has been the finest wicketkeeper at the World Cup, was requested that query by The Hindu. “But I don’t have the greatest memory, so I don’t know how it all began,” he mentioned. “I do a lot of the analysis work with [coach] Ryan [Cook] before the games and he is very good at it.”
Story behind it
O’Dowd had a extra detailed reply. “It began with a lot of the analysis work that we do and work on bowlers and batters,” he mentioned. “No, we haven’t done it in notes before the World Cup, but it has been dramatised a little bit, because now every time I have notes in my pocket the camera zooms in on me. We do a lot of work on batters and we have match-ups written down that we think will work against certain batters.”
It labored notably properly in the Netherlands’ win in opposition to South Africa at Dharamshala. Remember the dismissal of Rassie van der Dussen, as an illustration?
“Well, we knew Rassie would try and reverse sweep, and it’s one of his strengths,” the opener mentioned. “But we didn’t think the plan would come off so fast. The notes are just there for us to kind of guide us.”
So how did the notes discover their approach into his pocket and not anyone else’s?
The messenger
“Well, somebody said the paper with the notes and I said that I would put it in my pocket,” O’Dowd smiled. “It makes sense too, since I am always inside the ring. I just became the messenger.”
