Have you
heard of Mudassar Bukhari, 30 year old born at
Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan and Logan Verjus van Beek, 23 year old from
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand ………. and what could connect them… When you read the next lengthy name – ‘Herath
Mudiyanselage Rangana Keerthi Bandara Herath’ – you feel that the connection is
Cricket. Rangana Herath has taken 217
wickets in 51 tests and 54 wickets in 55 one dayers… not touted as a T20 player
for he is a left arm spinner.
Before that 88 all out with only four boundaries and a 45-run defeat,
monumental by Twenty20 terms, a shameful margin against an Associate nation –
it is all happening after the early exit of Australia, now it is turn of
another originator of the game……. Double Dutch’ – is a
phrase meaning : Nonsense; gibberish - a language one cannot understand. There
are a host of phrases in English that include the word 'Dutch'; that's hardly
surprising as The Netherlands is just a few miles across the sea from
England. There are some decrying French
and some Dutch – reasons, trade and war.
In T20 WC with 2 more
matches to go – one half is complete… Sri Lanka and South Africa have qualified
with 3 wins each; Lanka with NRR of +2.233 tops the pool and hence South Africa
will play India in the Semis on 4th; while Lanka will take on the winner of WI
and Pak.
A spot in the semi-finals
of the World T20 could well be heavily weighted on the toss of a coin, stand-in
captain Lasith Malinga lost the toss and
Brendon McCullum chose to bowl in the virtual quarter-final in Chittagong, courting success to restrict Lankans to a
manageable 119………… but Herath had other ideas as he ran through the Kiwis in a
breathtaking spell of 3.3-2-3-5. He
snared out Brendon McCullum; struck the pads of Taylor; next ball beat and hit
the leg stump of Neesham, scalped Ronchi and then Boult. NZ were all out for
60.
Before that England
reached a new low – they had been defeated by Ireland and Netherlands, but
today’s defeat at the hands of
Netherlands - the second time they have lost to them in two meetings following
the result in the 2009 World T20 at Lord's - in Chittagong ranks among the
worst of England's defeats. It is a defeat that might also prove a fatal blow
for Ashley Giles' hopes of gaining the England coaching job. They lost to a team that were bowled out for
39 by the Lankans a few days ago. Their
colours looked similar but their performance was still lower.
Netherland in Oranje and England in REd.. !!!
Netherlands have become
the only Associate team to beat a Test team twice in T20 internationals. Their
first win against England was in the only other T20I these teams have played,
at Lord's in the 2009 World T20. England's total in this match equalled their
second lowest score in T20Is. This was a wretched performance. While
Netherlands hit three boundaries in the first over of the game, England managed
only four in their entire innings.
Timm van der Gugten bowled
with pace and control in taking the key wicket of Eoin Morgan, taking 3 while Mudassar Bukhari's control and
variations gave him another 3. Coming
back to colours, Netherlands is Oranje …. Their national football team is
colloquially referred to as Het Nederlands Elftal (The Dutch Eleven) and Oranje,
after the House of Orange-Nassau. Like the country itself, the team is
sometimes, although incorrectly, referred to as Holland. In football, the Dutch hold the record for playing the most
World Cup finals without ever winning the final. But in Cricket today at
Bangladesh the scorecard reveals : Netherlands 133 for 5 (Barresi 48) beat
England 88 (van Beek 3-9, Bukhari 3-12) by 45 runs
Backhome, Cricinfo states
that Shivlal Yadav's term as the BCCI chief for all matters barring the IPL
will begin on a depressingly familiar note: a court hearing in Hyderabad on
April 5 in a case related to alleged embezzlement of funds during the
construction of a cricket stadium. Yadav is one of 20-odd Hyderabad Cricket
Association (HCA) officials facing various allegations, including
misappropriation of funds.
With regards – S.
Sampathkumar
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