Women’s European Championship: Netherlands Women v Scotland Women – Match Recap
Netherland Women finally came out strong, earning the Women’s European Championship series title, after defeating Scotland Women in the second and final One Day International (ODI) match on Friday, August 19, 2011, at Kampong, Utrecht.
The bout came as part of the minute 2-day competition, featuring 2 ODI matches between Women teams of Netherlands, Scotland and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ireland-c751.
As for Friday’s game, the match took to the field after Netherland Women’s skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Miranda-Veringmeier-c76358; forcing the Scottish women into bowling first, who kicked
off the bowling attack with Kathryn White and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Leigh-Megan-Kasperek-c72440.
Bringing in a sluggish opening to the innings, Netherlands’ batting duo went on to lose an early wicket in the 8th over, after Veringmeier was forced into exiting the crease off a caught and bowl dismissal by Kasperek.
However, recovering from an opening loss, the batting side saw some impressive performance coming its way after one down batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Caroline-Aimee-Salomons-c49291 came out to aid skipper Rambaldo on the crease.
The newly formed pair took on some swift batting, earning handful numbers for the team. With some impressive display at the crease, the duo went on to offer a solid 151 runs partnership for the team, leading the total to a 174 runs mark.
However, following a mismanaged run attempt by the batters, the duo was finally parted with Salomons marking her exit at impressive 71 runs, coming off 100 delivering.
Following another wicket in the 41st over, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Netherlands-c753 Women finally brought a closure to their innings at 246 runs with a minor 3 wickets loss.
As for the Scottish batting response, the team took off with a slow, yet an impressive start from its opening pair featuring http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Fiona-Elaine-Urquhart-c57024.
However, both the batters went out following a notable bowling performance from Netherlands’ off-break bowler, Esther Lanser, who managed to mark two swift wickets for the team in the 11th and 15th overs of the day.
Following the opening couple wickets, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kari-Anderson-c70292 and Kasperek took over the crease aiding the side into retaining stumps till 38 overs.
Although the batters did bring in some stability for the side, but the pair’s slow addition of runs to the total made the team’s chase troublesome following Anderson’s loss.
With three wickets lost, Scotland eventually came under fire after Netherlands Women took on some aggressive bowling, offering consistent blows on the team’s batting line-up.
Following White’s dismissal at a fair 40 runs contribution, the batting side went on to lose some quick wickets in the final quarter of the game.
Scotland Women finally suffered its eventual defeat in the 49th over following the dismissal of its final batter Lorna Jack.
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