World Cup 2023: Dutch captain Edwards said after the defeat against New Zealand, said - we have to play our best cricket

 

In the sixth match of the ICC ODI World Cup 2023, New Zealand defeated Netherlands by 99 runs with the help of Mitchell Santner's 5 wickets. Santner also played an important innings of 36(17)* runs with the bat. After the defeat against New Zealand, captain Scott Edwards said that they took the match away in the last 3 overs and we have to play our best cricket and try to win.

After the match, Scott Edwards said, "We were very good in the first 40 overs. In the last 3 overs they took the match away, which made the score a little higher than we expected. If we could have held them to 280-300, So the wicket will be a little better at night. New Zealand have a disciplined bowling attack, they are not going to make it easy for you. You will not be able to chase 321 with 40, 50 and 60. We will talk to the players about that. "In the next few matches we have to make big partnerships and score big scores. It's another game for us, we have to play our best cricket and try to win."

New Zealand, batting first, scored 322 runs losing 7 wickets in 50 overs. For the team, Will Young scored 70(80), captain Tom Latham scored 53(46), and Rachin Ravindra scored half-centuries of 51(51). For Netherlands, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren and Roelof van der Merwe took 2 wickets each. Whereas Bas de Leede managed to take one wicket. 

Chasing the target, Netherlands team was all out for 223 in 46.3 overs. Colin Ackerman scored the highest score of 69 (73) for the Dutch team. Mitchell Santner took the maximum 5 wickets for the Kiwi team. Matt Henry took 3 wickets. Rachin Ravindra was successful in taking one wicket.