ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier - 3rd match - Group A - Netherlands Women v Zimbabwe Women – Match Recap
Zimbabwe 145 v Netherlands 148 - Netherlands Women won by 6 wickets (with 148 balls remaining)
The Netherlands Women team gained two points in the ongoing International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) Women’s World Cup Qualifier after beating Zimbabwe by six wickets on Monday, November 14, 2011.
Since this was the third match of the tournament and the first for both sides, they wanted to get off to a flying start to begin the tournament in a dominating fashion.
After winning the toss, Zimbabwean Captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Netherlands-c753.
From http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045, Ashley Ndiraya and Sinikiwe Mpofu took the field and forged a handsome opening partnership to subdue their opponents.
Meanwhile, for Netherlands it an early wicket was imperative to take lead in the game and restrict the batting side from taking the game away.
The two posted 19 runs together as they gave the spectators plenty to cheer about by playing superbly timed shots all around the park.
It was then on the last delivery of the sixth over when Netherlands grabbed their first by dismissing Ndiraya on 16 runs as the batswoman was clean-bowled by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kerry-Anne-Tomlinson-c71029. At the time of this wicket, Zimbabwe had managed to amass 19 runs on the board.
Thandolwenkosi Mlilo was then the next player to come in; however, she failed to leave a mark as she lost her wicket after making only four runs. Then disaster struck when C Chatonzwa found her way back to the pavilion without scoring a run as she was run out..
It was then on a tally of 48 runs when Zimbabwe suffered the loss of their fourth wicket when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sinikiwe-Mpofu-c90471 lost her wicket after scoring 21 runs.
Later in the innings, lower-middle-order batswoman Nonhlanhla Nyathi smashed a well tamed knock of 29 runs off 97 deliveries to not only frustrate the fielding side but also create a window of opportunity for the remaining players to score freely in the dying moments of the innings.
In the end, Zimbabwe managed to post 145 runs on the board in 49.5 overs.
Coming out to bat, Netherlands had a respectable total at hand and needed to retain wickets in hand to grab a win from the clash.
While they lost their first wicket on the penultimate delivery of the fifth over when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Miranda-Veringmeier-c76358 and Kerry-Anne Tomlinson who stole the show by scoring 47 and 46 runs as their side comfortably reached the required target in 25.2 overs.
Tomlinson who took two wickets and also played a nifty innings was named as the Player of the Match for her emphatic performance.
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