T20 Global Qualifier: Netherlands close in on semi-final spot

The Netherlands finished off a direct win over Hong Kong at Queens Club to everything except guarantee their spot in the semi finals of the T20 Global Qualifier B. Logan van Beek's full go-around started a late breakdown as Hong Kong drooped to 116 hard and fast. Max O'Dowd top-scored with 45 as the Dutch top request took care of the pursuit. In the mean time Papua New Guinea captain Asad Vala's skipper's knock of 93* off 47 saw his side return from rout against the Dutch to pursue down Uganda's 160 runs with 20 balls in excess and set up a possible three-manner confrontation for the keep going semi-last spot on Thursday. The crease weighty Dutch assault would hold the scoring within proper limits through the Hong Kong innings subsequent to being welcome to bowl first, Logan van Beek yielding the principal limits just in the third finished, Nizakat working him behind square to the rope and Aizaz stabbing a trudge in a similar heading. Yet, he would find the leap forward with the following ball, a main edge taking off upright and Edwards under it. Babar Hayat got off the imprint getting Bas de Leede hard through square for four, and in the following over sent Fred Klaassen's most memorable bouncer well back over the rope, yet the following ball was a shade more full and more extensive and a similar shot created a thick external edge out to de Leede following opposite cover. The Dutch would hope to secure an end with turn from that point on, yet Nizakat and Kinchit Shah figured out how to keep the score ticking utilizing what speed was on offer at the opposite end. Shah hoped to get after the twist also, trudge clearing Shariz Ahmad for six, however giving the youthful legspinner his lady T20I wicket hoping to rehash the shot. With the scoring rate still on the drowsy side the tension was building, and Yasim Murtaza would go gloving de Leede down leg pursuing a leg-stump bouncer that he could have let be. With the score still in twofold figures toward the finish of the fourteenth, Zeeshan Ali hoped to compel the speed. He was first reprieved in the profound off Tim Pringle as Shariz Ahmad overran a straightforward opportunity, however at that point excused off a far superior shot as Stephan Myburgh held a lot harder possibility off the essence of the bat jumping opposite additional cover on the following ball. Nizakat and Shahid Wasif took Hong Kong past the hundred-mark in the sixteenth over, happy to work singles as Nizakat surrounded his 50 years, which he would finish in the following over tucking Klaassen to leg for a solitary. Two balls later and Nizakat would find the rope through cover thanks to some underneath standard handling in the profound, however a sharp piece of handling off his own bowling from Klaassen and a deft flick onto the stumps ran out Wasif next ball. A top edged pull off Logan van Beek with barely enough to persist the rope got Khan his initial six the following over, yet one more fantastic catch from Myburgh, this time jumping back from chasm, would see him go for 60 off 55, and van Beek would follow it up skewering the following ball into Scott McKechnie's back cushion, and complete the full go-around to the detriment of Ehsan Khan, who took the following ball on the knee-roll before leg yet wouldn't endure the unavoidable allure. Hong Kong's diligent effort through the center scattered in an instant, Klaassen required only another conveyance from the opposite finish to put the final detail to the snare at the passing, tearing out Haroon Arshad's center stump to see Hong Kong all out for 116 with 11 balls unused. Hong Kong would require early wickets in liberal amount if they somehow happened to expect to protect their aggregate and to be sure Ehsan Khan could have had Myburgh early, a top-edged trudge clear descending for Zeeshan Ali on the midwicket limit, who took the catch well yet made a stride back onto the rope. Myburgh wouldn't ride his karma far nonetheless, as he played around a more slow conveyance from Aizaz in the following over and lost his off bail. It would be their last bliss for quite a while in any case, as O'Dowd and de Leede took full advantage of the handling limitations, rebuffing anything wide or overpitched to take the Dutch to 57-1 when the field spread. Scoring unavoidably eased back from that point, however O'Dowd removed the field from the situation in the following, shimmying down to Murtaza to pummel him high over lengthy on into the highest point of the transcending scoreboard approaching over the ground. He wouldn't make it to the extent that fifty in any case, missing a spot clear off Ehsan in the 10th to leave for a 27-ball 45, however he had taken care of a portion of the Netherlands' business as of now. Tom Cooper took as much time as necessary to play himself in, however there was a lot of time accessible. At the point when he at last jump started Murtaza back to front over cover for six on the main bundle of the twelfth, it appeared to be his understanding was at an end, and de Leede would take the sign, striking a one-bob four in comparable style two balls later, then, at that point, level the scores descending the track and sending off over lengthy on. Hong Kong would have the incidental award of Cooper's wicket, LBW hoping to trudge Ehsan Khan even more down leg, graciousness a choice that might have provoked a philosophical second for Khan. Commander Scott Edwards advanced out to track down the triumphant run with a push through a misfield at cover, de Leede staying unbeaten on 36 off 27 and the Dutch securely home with 40 balls in excess.