Holland beat england in icc world t20 opener thriller

yes if you are from netherlands your team won.they won on the last ball and i know people in your country have play cricket part time after hdoing a regular job. but your team has some good players like dirk nannes. your team won on the last ball and it cannot get any closer than that.see there are two teams the first teams goes out to bat with 10 wickets in hand and makes runs in the alloted 20 overs since it is a t20 tournament. the innings ends after the completion of 20 overs or if 10 wickets are picked up by the bowling team. then the other team comes out to bat and makes those runs.at the end of the 20 overs if they are unable to make the runs they lose or if they lose their 10 wickets before making those runs they lose. yesterday england made 152 runs. netherlands were 151 before the last ball and needed two runs to win which they got on the last ball. so congratulations to you and your team i watched the match till 1.30 in the morning as i was supporting netherlands to win. enjoy the win.

Thanks for the explanation it still isn't 100% clear to me but you're not to blame. Cricket just is not popular here so you don't get to 'deal' with it and thus don't learn the ins and outs. I am happy we won indeed, England are one of the best teams out there so winning over them is an honour. I am happy eurosport aired a replay a few hours ago, I couldn't enjoy watching though due to the lack of rule knowledge I have. By the way a newspaper in the England wrote: Dutch shoes 1 idiots 0, isn't that a bit harsh for england?

yes i heard that there are only around 6000 cricket players in your country and 7 grass pitches so it would not be that popular but even when they played in the 2003 world cup they were the best fielding side in the tournament. also another fact which proves that you have no idea about cricket is that you think England is one of the best teams around.otherwise you would have known that England are quite often the laughing stock in world cricket and they were the beating boys of the last t20 world cup in 2007 as well.the newspaper was just reacting to yet another embarrassment of the England cricket team. i do not think it was harsh but just funny. if you read all the newspapers of England regarding what they think of the England cricket team you will know what harsh actually is. since cricket is my favorite sport i would not mind at all to explain the rules again to you but i do not want to impose the concept of cricket upon you since it will be hard to understand all the rules at once since it might be a little complicated for a first timer. so i will spare you all the rules of cricket this time although i had just told you the basic concept which did not include a part of the actual rules of cricket.

well the only reason i stayed up till late was because i was expecting a close game. when england is playing in the first match of the tournament you should know they will try everything to mess it up for themselves. history suggests the same thing and that is what they kept doing over after over in the second half of their batting and in the second half or their bowling.not to take anything away from the dutch guys they came back very well with the ball and played some amazing but proper cricket shots which made it worth staying up late. thanks for your response.happy mylotting.

yeah it was a thriller and it went the dutch way.it was a fantastic match to watch and england messed it up in the end for themselves. they would need a very big brush to turn around things for them in the tournament. regarding india well that is another story.thanks for your response.happy mylotting.

well kenya made it to the semi finals in the 2003 world cup and you can never say what may happen in t20 cricket.they have a good side and if they bump into australia then nannes will be very keen to beat them. so never say no i would say and that is what netherlands will think. i hope they play the same way in the tournament

i do not realy care who goes through between these two but i think england ar most likely to be knocked out of the tournament but you never know what might happen and i have a feeling they will might beat pakistan to keep their chances alive in the tournament which would be very unfortunate for the dutch if it happens.

are you from england? what are you talking about? even if there had been any help due to rains netherlands could not capitalize on it and england raced to 100 in 11 overs and had the dutch team on the mat. the bowlers did a good job for them and pulled things back. so after 11 overs i do not think there would have been effect due to rains so it would be very wrong to take away credit from the dutch bowlers. the netherlands won because they deserved to win as they held their nerves till the end not because of rains.thanks for your response.happy mylotting.