Kenya v Netherlands - ICC Intercontinental Cup – Match Recap
Kenya 184/8 (50 ov) v Netherlands 187/6 (45.0 ov) - Netherlands won by 4 wickets (with 30 balls remaining)
The Netherlands beat Kenya in the sixth match of the ongoing International Cricket Council (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) Intercontinental Cup 2011-2013, after handsomely chasing a tally of 184 runs posted by Kenya at Sportpark Westvliet, Voorburg.
Kenya after winning the toss chose to bat first against the Dutch in a bid to post enough runs on the board to give their bowlers a winning chance in the 50-over game.
Openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mudassar-Bukhari-c77863. The batsman
walked back to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs off 33 deliveries.
Kenya suffered their second loss in the 16th over when the number three batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pieter-Marinus-Seelaar-c82273 when he was caught by Borren. At the time of his departure the Kenyans had
posted 44 runs on the board.
This brought http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Huzefa-Mohammed-Patel-c63657 after playing an innings of 40 runs off 60 deliveries fell to his demise when he was stumped by wicketkeeper Wesley Barresi on the bowling of Tim
Gruijters. At the time of this wicket, the Kenyans had managed to post 70 runs on the board.
It was then Obuya and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/T-Mishra-c2629 who stood defiant against the opposition as they clobbered the bowlers all around the park with zeal and confidence.
The duo posted 71 runs in the fourth wicket partnership, which proved fatal for the Dutch as they were left completely awestruck by the batting display from the two batsmen.
The partnership finally came to an end when Mishra after scoring 22 runs off 41 deliveries was caught by Szwarczynski off the bowing of Gruijters. When this wicket fell in the 43rd over, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kenya-c752 had posted 141 runs for the loss of four wickets.
Six runs later, Obuya after smashing 54 runs off 99 deliveries was removed by Bukhari when the batsman was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Michael-Swart-c76222.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Irfan-Ali-Karim-c64454 was the last batsman to have scored an impressive knock of 21 runs off 20 deliveries before the Kenyan tail was annihilated by the Dutch.
Coming out to bat, the Netherlands knew that they would need to keep wickets in hand to win the game as they required 185 runs to win.
Openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ES-Szwarczynski-c1423 and Stephan Myburgh left their opponents flabbergasted right from the start of the innings as they piled a massive 58-run knock in the first wicket partnership.
After receiving a hammering from the Dutch openers, the Kenyans did manage to climb back in the game for a while when they grabbed three wickets for 66 runs, however, the game was taken away from them by an astounding innings from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/W-Barresi-c2773 who smashed
67 runs off 86 deliveries as he and PW Borren clobbered 77 runs in the fifth wicket partnership.
In the end, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Netherlands-c753 won the game after posting 187 runs in response to Kenya’s tally.
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