Netherlands’ Scott Edwards and coach Ryan Cook throughout a apply session forward of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 match between England and Netherlands at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune in India on Tuesday.
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The spirited Netherlands have given account of themselves within the World Cup and their coach Ryan Cook on Saturday hoped that among the players may need evoked curiosity among the many IPL franchises forward of this 12 months’s public sale.
Netherlands are tenth on the factors desk with 4 factors however they’ve scored memorable wins over semi-finalists South Africa and Bangladesh within the event.
The participant public sale forward of the IPL 2024 will be held in Dubai on December 19, and Cook stated being a part of the league will be an enormous step-up for his players.
“IPL would be a great experience for our players and that would be sort of the next level. But even just any of the other leagues as well would be welcomed from the players’ point of view – the experience that they can gain in that space,” stated Cook throughout his pre-match press meet forward of the match in opposition to India right here on Sunday.
Cook pointed on the high quality and availability components as two causes for the leagues to more and more take a look at Dutch players.
In the previous, solely two Dutch players have performed within the IPL – all-rounder Ryan Ten Doeschate, who performed for KKR and left-arm fast Dirk Nannes.
Spinner Roelof van der Merwe, who now performs for the Netherlands, too had appeared within the IPL for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, however throughout that point the left-arm spinner was a South African cricketer. Nannes was taking part in for Australia when he performed for RCB in IPL.
“Our fixture list is such that most of the leagues that are played, our players would have full availability. Sometimes the auction depends on who’s available and who’s not available. I think mostly in our cases, we’re always available.
“I believe plenty of the players have stood up right here. Some of the highest wicket takers within the event, some guys have actually shot properly with the bat in particular elements, which I believe would be very engaging to a lot of totally different leagues,” said Cook.
The Dutch coach was excited to take on India and he expected India to come hard at his team.
“They’re taking part in actually good cricket in the mean time. They’ve received all of the matches fairly convincingly. I do not see them taking their foot off the pedal in any approach going into the semifinals and into the finals. We would be displaying them the identical courtesy as properly.
“So, we have great respect for India and the players within there. I’m sure that they will show the same respect to us and play a great game of cricket. It’ll be a great occasion on Diwali at the Chinnaswamy,” he added.
However, Cook admitted that having no cricket to play after their qualification to the World Cup has hampered their preparation for the big event.
After their qualification for the quadrennial showpiece in July this year, the Netherlands had to satisfy with a few warm up matches against Karnataka senior team in Bengaluru and the pre-tournament side games.
“I believe we had a scenario the place after the qualifiers we had no cricket. We simply had Karnataka that we performed in opposition to. Probably in hindsight, we missed a few fixtures to refine our abilities.
“And those two games were really good, but probably not quite enough preparation for a World Cup like this. And that was no fault of our own,” said Cook.
However, Cook looked back at their extended time in Bengaluru for practice matches with a lot fondness.
“I want that everybody might have seen [Shariz] Ahmad’s face yesterday. It was a dream come true for him. It was like watching somebody arrive at Lords. He’s an RCB supporter.
“All he needed to do was to hit a six on the Chinnaswamy, which clearly he did within the nets. Yeah, we have liked Bangalore. It’s very welcoming. We actually like Bangalore as a metropolis,” stated Cook.
