Toss Zimbabwe selected to bat vs Netherlands
After a wet construct-up, the solar was out on the Adelaide Oval and Zimbabwe captain Craig Ervine was completely happy to bat first after profitable the toss of their Group 2 conflict in opposition to Netherlands.
Zimbabwe, who’re nonetheless in with an opportunity to make the semi-finals, introduced in Luke Jongwe as their solely change within the XI. He changed fellow allrounder Brad Evans, who Ervine mentioned, “picked up a little bit of a niggle versus Bangladesh”. Ervine additionally harassed on their batters to do effectively and mentioned that the beginning has been somewhat little bit of a difficulty for them.
Netherlands captain Scott Edwards was not too fussed about bowling first on a pitch that had a fair protecting of grass. Bas de Leede, who suffered a lower underneath his proper eye after lacking a pull off a Haris Rauf quick ball, recovered from his concussion and was again within the XI. Logan van Beek, who was drafted in as de Leede’s concussion sub, changed Tim Pringle from the match in opposition to Pakistan.
It is the primary time the Adelaide Oval was internet hosting a match on this competitors and the scale had been quick, sq. of the wicket on both sides and stretched to about 81 metres down the bottom.
Netherlands and Zimbabwe had been each enjoying a T20I for the primary time on the venue, although Zimbabwe have performed – and misplaced – three ODIs within the capital metropolis of South Australia.
Netherlands: 1 Stephan Myburgh, 2 Max O’Dowd, 3 Bas de Leede, 4 Tom Cooper, 5 Colin Ackermann, 6 Scott Edwards (capt & wk), 7 Roelof van der Merwe, 8 Logan van Beek, 9 Fred Klaassen, 10 Paul van Meekeren, 11 Brandon Glover
Zimbabwe: 1 Wessly Madhevere, 2 Craig Ervine (capt), 3 Milton Shumba, 4 Sean Williams, 5 Sikandar Raza, 6 Regis Chakabva (wk), 7 Ryan Burl, 8 Luke Jongwe, 9 Brad Evans, 10, Richard Ngarava, 11 Blessing Muzarabani
