Pakistan v Netherlands – Live Scores of ICC T20 World Cup 2009 9th match

In the 9th match of ICC T20 World Cup 2009, Pakistan will face Netherlands in a do-or-die match today at Lord's, London starting from 12:30 GMT, 6.00 PM IST. It will be interesting to see who will join England in the Super Eights from their group.

Pakistan has already lost their opening game to England by 48 runs. Pakistan is at last place in the group with a negative run rate so a win over Netherlands will not be enough for Pakistan to qualify. Pakistan will have to show an outstanding performance against Netherlands and try to win with a very good net run rate.

Netherlands already at the second spot with 2 points & a plus run rate in their group. It means that Netherlands just will have to play with Pakistan as they played against England in their previous game.

Pakistan Playing 11 for Today
Younis Khan (C), Misbah-ul-haq, Kamran Akmal (W), Shoaib Mallik, Shahid Afridi, Salman Butt, Ahmed Shehzad, Sohail Tanvir, Yasir Arafat, Umar Gul, Iftikar Anzum, Fawad Alam, Mohammad Aamir

Netherlands Playing 11 for Today
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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Netherlands defeat England in a thriller - ICC T20 World Cup opens with a surprise

Shocking defeat for host England at the hands of Netherlands, one of the weaker sides considered in international cricket. England placed in a tight situation with a must win situation against Pakistan. 

The summary of the match:

England started very well with both the openers Ravi Bopara continuing his good batting form scoring 46 runs while his partner Luke Wright with a brilliant 71 runs was the star performer for England. 

England went ahead to score 162 for 5 (Wright 71, Bopara 46) 

A dream win for Netherlands (Holland) in this ICC T20 World Cup. de Grooth of Netherlands blazed with the bat scoring an invaluable 49 runs to guide the team to victory. The middle order also gave vital support with some valuable knocks by P Borren (30 of 25 balls) and RN ten Doeschate ( 22 of 17 balls).

Netherlands 163 for 6 (de Grooth 49, Borren 30, Anderson 3-23)

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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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Netherlands Team for T20 World Cup, Squad of Netherlands for 20 20 WC

Find the complete player list of Netherlands Team for 2009 Twenty20 World Cup in England.

Netherlands T20 Squad:

Jeroen Smits (Capt/wk)

Peter Borren

Mudassar Buhkari

Tom De Grooth

Maurits Jonkman

Alexei Kervezee

Dirk Nannes

Ruud Nijman

Darren Reekers

Edgar Schiferli

Pieter Seelaar

Eric Szwarczynski

Ryan ten Doeschate

Dan van Bunge

Bas Zuiderent

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