The Netherlands will likely be on a excessive after handing the West Indies a shock defeat within the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 qualifiers forward of the Super Six stage. In one of the colossal upsets of ongoing qualifiers, the Dutch prevailed in a thriller that went to the tremendous over after Scott Edwards’Â aspect scored 374 in response to West Indies’ equivalent whole. All-rounder Logan van Beek smashed 30 runs off the tremendous over bowled by Jason Holder as the West Indies may solely get 8 runs within the one-over eliminator.
Ahead of their first Super Six match against Sri Lanka, the Netherlands revealed an act of braveness from one of their pacers Vivian Kingma. The Netherlands revealed that Kingma cut up his webbing during catching observe earlier than the match against the West Indies and he needed to get stitches on it. Kingma not solely played by means of ache but in addition bowled his full quota of 10 overs and delivered the primary breakthrough for his aspect dismissing Johnson Charles.
In a sequence of tweets on Wednesday, June 28, the Netherlands on Twitter wrote, “Minutes after being named within the taking part in XI for the primary time within the event, our quick bowler Vivian Kingma sadly cut up his webbing on his bowling hand whereas performing some pre-match catching observe.
“In the above image, he’s seen getting stitches moments earlier than the match commenced. Since he needed to open the bowling, Vivian couldn’t take native anaesthesia as that may have left his bowling hand numb.
“So, he decided to bowl despite the pain and didn’t flinch even when one of the deliveries was hit straight at his injured hand. Viv not only bowled all his 10 overs, including an economical opening spell on a featherbed, but also got us the first wicket of the innings,” the Netherlands Cricket Twitter deal with additional wrote.
It’s unlikely that Kingma will play on Friday, June 30 against Sri Lanka in his aspect’s first match of Super Six, nevertheless, his gesture simply sums up the spirit of the Dutch aspect with which they played against the West Indies. The Netherlands presently have two factors going into the Super Six and might want to win all three of their remaining matches to ebook their flights for India in October-November later this yr.
