Netherlands' entry in the World Cup, know when the team will face India

World Cup 2023: First Zimbabwe showed strength. Then Scotland also put its emphasis. Both the teams failed in the end and Netherlands qualified for the ODI World Cup 2023. The Netherlands, captained by Scott Edwards, secured India's ticket by defeating Scotland by 4 wickets in just 43 overs in their last match of the World Cup qualifiers. In this success of the Netherlands, the astonishing performance of all-rounder Bes Delida was responsible, who single-handedly won the team.

Very exciting matches were seen from the beginning in this qualifier tournament being played in Zimbabwe. Teams like the West Indies failed to qualify, while strongly promoted home team Zimbabwe also faltered at the finish line. The competition was only between Scotland and the Netherlands.

Only one player got ticket

Netherlands had to win by at least more than 35 runs or within 44 overs. It wasn't going to be easy but Netherlands all-rounder Delida made it easy by putting up one of the most memorable performances of his career with both bat and ball. Scotland batted first and scored a strong score of 277 runs. For him, Brandon McMullan scored his second ODI century. Both his centuries came in this tournament only. Apart from McMullan, captain Richie Barrington also scored 64 runs.

The Scotland team could not score a bigger score than this, so the reason for that was the fast bowler Delida. The right-handed pacer made 5 batsmen his victims from top to lower order.

The Dutch all-rounder's work was yet to be done. This 23-year-old player again rocked the bat. The team had to achieve this target in just 44 overs, so that they could leave behind Scotland's net run rate. However, the top order of the Netherlands batted very slowly, due to which it seemed difficult. Bais Delida took the lead and scored his first century in just 84 balls.

Amazing like Viv Richards

After this, Delida hit 4 more sixes in the next 8 balls to ensure the team's victory in just 42.5 overs. He scored 123 runs in just 92 balls (7 fours, 5 sixes) and got out 2 runs before victory. With this performance, Bes Delida repeated the feat of great Windies batsman Viv Richards. He became only the fourth player in men's ODI cricket to score a century and take 5 wickets in a match. Richards first did this feat in 1986. Apart from him, England's Paul Collingwood (2007) and UAE's Rohan Mustafa (2017) have also done this feat.

When will there be competition with India?

With this, all the 10 teams of the World Cup have been confirmed as well as the last opponent of Team India and the match day has also been confirmed. The Netherlands' first match will be against Pakistan on October 8, while Team India will clash with the Netherlands in their last match of the league stage itself. This match will be played on November 11 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.