England Vs Netherlands (Holland) – ICCT20 World Cup 2009 1st Match

In the 1st match of ICC T20 World Cup 2009, The home team England play with Netherlands (Holland) on Friday, 5th June, 2009 at Lord's, London starting from 16.30 GMT, 10.00PM IST.

England won their warm up match over West Indies who scored only 144 runs which was chased down well by England in only 14.4 overs. England got a new opening pair in Luke Wright and Ravi Bopara who played for the Kings XI Punjab team in the IPL and has been in good form since then which he displayed in the warm up game.

A win over Scotland gave the Dutch team the confidence of pulling a win in the first match against England. If Netherland over England then England has to win over Pakistan by a good margin.

England Playing 11 for Today Match

Luke Wright, Ravi Bopara, Kevin Pietersen, Owais Shah, Paul Collingwood (captC), Eoin Morgan, James Foster (W), Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Ryan Sidebottom, James Anderson

Netherland Playing 11 for Today Match

Darron Reekers, Alexei Kervezee, Bas Zuiderent, Ryan ten Doeschate, Daan van Bunge, Jeroen Smits (C), Tom de Groothe, Mudassar Bukhari, Dirk Nannes, Edgar Schiferli, Pieter Seelaar

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Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara give a good start to England – 2nd Test First Inning

Summary:


England 302 for 2 (Cook 126*, Anderson 4*) v West Indies

Ravi Bopara scored his third consecutive century to give England a strong start along with Alastair Cook who is unbeaten on 126. West Indies had to toil hard get across both these in form batsmen.

By end of day, England scored 302 for 2, with Alastair Cook and Anderson sent in as the night watchman. A nice batting pitch will help England put on a big score to pile before W’indies could get their hand with the bat.



Batting - England 1st innings
AJ Strauss c Ramdin b Gayle 26 66 4 0 39.39
AN Cook not out 126 262 14 0 48.09
RS Bopara b Baker 108 208 13 1 51.92
JM Anderson not out 4 16 1 0 25.00
Extras (b 9, lb 3, w 6, nb 20) 38
Total (2 wickets; 90 overs) 302
(3.35 runs per over)

Bowling – West Indies 1st Innings
LS Baker - 1 wicket in 19 overs
CH Gayle – 1 wicket in 12 overs

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