Nepal to host Netherlands and Namibia forward of T20 Global Cup 2024

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The Netherlands and Namibia will excursion Nepal for a bilateral ODI collection each and every. The 3 groups will then play a T20I tri-series forward of the following T20 Global Cup 2024 in June. All 3 groups have certified for the match. The collection can be performed in February-March 2024.

The six ODIs can be a part of the Global Cricket League 2. The Netherlands have named their ODI and T20I squads for the excursion. The cricket board mentioned that they weren’t in a position to ship their full-strength squads as “gamers have accidents or commitments in different places”.

The T20 Global Cup is a 16-team match with the highest 8 groups incomes direct qualification. The remainder 8th groups needed to play the qualifiers in Zimbabwe final 12 months to earn their qualification. The hosts of the qualifier Zimbabwe themselves may just now not qualify for the multi-team tournament.

Twelve out of the 16 gamers within the squad have been a part of the Netherlands’ squad within the historical ICC Cricket Global Cup 2023. Logan van Beek, Colin Ackerman, and Saqib Zulfiqar are the important thing lacking gamers within the squad. Common skipper Scott Edwards will lead the 16-man squad.

The Netherlands will play a Tri-Sequence towards the hosts Nepal and Namibia beneath CWC League 2. The collection begins on fifteenth February and can finish on twenty fifth February. Nepal, Netherlands, and Namibia can even interact in a T20 collection after finishing the CWC League 2 collection.

The Netherlands lately performed within the ICC Global Cup 2023 the place they received two video games and misplaced seven out of the 9 league video games. They defeated South Africa and Bangladesh and misplaced to groups like India, Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. Namibia may just now not qualify for the Global Cup as they final performed Netherlands within the ICC Global Cup 2023 qualifiers. The Dutch facet have been victorious via seven wickets within the contest.

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The Dutch group final toured Nepal in April 2021 for the T20I tri-series together with Malaysia. Nepal received that collection defeating the Netherlands itself within the ultimate. Nepal lately performed within the T20 Global Cup qualifiers and managing to qualify has earned them their subsequent step in global cricket.

Nepal and Oman secured qualification to the ICC Males’s T20 Global Cup 2024 once they reached the overall of the Asia qualifiers held in Nepal on Friday. The host beat the United Arab Emirates via 8 wickets within the semifinal whilst Oman thrashed Bahrain via 10 wickets.

Netherlands Squads For Nepal Excursion

Netherlands ODI squad: Max O’Dowd, Vikramjit Singh, Noah Croes, Shariz Ahmad, Aryan Dutt, Teja Nidamanuru, Scott Edwards, Michael Levitt, Vivian Kingma, Wesley Barresi, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Roelof van der Merwe, Bas de Leede, Kyle Klein, Olivier Elenbaas

Netherlands T20I squad: Max O’Dowd, Vikramjit Singh, Noah Croes, Shariz Ahmad, Aryan Dutt, Teja Nidamanuru, Scott Edwards, Michael Levitt, Vivian Kingma, Wesley Barresi, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Roelof van der Merwe, Fred Klaassen, Kyle Klein, Timm van der Gugten, Daniel Doram (reserve participant)