Five-star Santner and batters make it two in two for New Zealand
New Zealand's innings started with three maidens in a row but ended with them bashing 50 off the last three overs, courtesy Tom Latham, Mitchell Santner and Matt Henry, which propelled them to 322. Netherlands started the chase slowly and never shifted gears as they folded for 223, as New Zealand further consolidated their position at the top of the points table after making it two in two.
Player-of-the-Match Santner, who clubbed an unbeaten 36 from 17 balls with the bat, then got 5 for 59 with the ball, and in the process turned into the principal New Zealand spinner to guarantee a five-for in a men's ODI World Cup. He shifted his speed reliably on a twist cordial pitch - the very characteristic which makes him undermining - as the feature of every one of his wickets was that of Scott Edwards'.
Santner dialed it back extensively and went with a wide line outside off to entice Edwards off the fifth bundle of the 35th over. The Netherlands commander had broken 12 off the three past conveyances - it incorporated a six and a four - and with the expected rate mounting, went trudging across the line, just for the ball to expand back towards Santner. All along these lines, at 174 for 6, Netherlands' little-residual any desires for causing a resentful disappeared.
Be that as it may, they had New Zealand in a precarious situation with the ball at one phase. New Zealand lost 3 for 16 in the passing overs - 238 for 3 in the 41st became 254 for 6 in the 45th - yet Latham continued to oppose the Netherlands bowlers toward one side. From being 1 off 5 balls after 34 overs, he crushed 53 from 46 notwithstanding the sluggish and holding nature of the pitch, which demonstrated trying for all approaching players excepting Latham.
Aryan Dutt had taken out Imprint Chapman to begin the 45th once again to leave Latham as New Zealand's just expert hitter, however Netherlands let it slip notwithstanding having a possibility of limiting New Zealand to under 300. Before that, Will Youthful and Rachin Ravindra additionally hit half-hundreds of years, together adding 77 out of 14 overs for the subsequent wicket. At last, New Zealand's innings would be characterized by such stands at a consistent rate as opposed to enormous ones.
Either side of that organization, Devon Conway and Youthful had started with 67 from 73 balls before Conway fell hurling at Roelof van der Merwe, while Ravindra and Daryl Mitchell added 41 at better than a run a ball. Ravindra, who followed up a profession best 123* against Britain with 51 against Netherlands, struck at a strike pace of 100. His visit finished just when a dexterous Edwards moved to one side to eat a stimulate off van der Merwe in the 33rd over.
The feature of Ravindra's innings, however, was him crushing a low and plunging full throw right outside off for four among point and short third. Only one over prior, Ravindra had a fortunate turn of events turning out well for him when the umpire turned down Netherlands' allure for lbw after a yorker from Ryan Klein caught him in front, just for replays to show umpire's approach leg stump. While he took up some kind of hobby on 44, Mitchell was dropped on 22 by debutant Sybrand Engelbrecht two balls later.
Mitchell wound up hitting 48, including five fours and two sixes. One of those maximums turned out lengthy on, his 22nd six in the district between mid-on and mid-off out of his 24 in ODIs. However, the runs from Youthful would be a positive for New Zealand. He had fallen for 12 in the warm-facing South Africa not long before the World Cup began, prior to choking himself for a brilliant duck in the competition opener against Britain.
Youthful had confronted one lady out of three what began New Zealand's innings, yet dashed away to 27 from 23 conveyances to get the ball really rolling in the powerplay. That run included five fours and a six, as he approached driving, cutting, cutting and hurling at balls. Youthful dialed back a piece as Netherlands utilized a lot of twist, yet subsequent to getting to his fifty in the twentieth over, he bludgeoned Colin Ackermann for a six over the bowler's head, with a completion that would please camerapersons. He fell for 70 off 80 balls when an endeavored pull took the toe end of the bat, yet his innings had established a strong starting point for New Zealand's aggregate.
With an immense complete to pursue, the main time Netherlands' innings appeared to be tickling along consistently was when Ackermann and Teja Nidamanuru added 50 for the fourth wicket, before a late choice by Ackermann to send Nidamanuru back following an endeavored second run brought about the last option's run-out. Other than Ackermann, who hit a created 69, each and every main seven player for Netherlands scored no less than 12, yet couldn't push past Edwards' 30.
New Zealand 322 for 7 (Young 70, Latham 53, van der Merwe 2-56) beat Netherlands 223 (Ackermann 69, Santner 5-59, Henry 3-40) by 99 runs