Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score, Cricket World Cup 2023: Rizwan, Shakeel get PAK on track after top 3 collapse

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Oh that is just sublime from Rizwan. De Leede goes full for he second ball of the 19th, Rizwan presents the full face of the bat, it comes off the middle and runs to the boundary. Meanwhile, there has been some acknowledgement from the broadcasters over the scorecard snafu. “Apologies for the lack of greaphics at the bottom. Bare with us, we are working as hard as we can. Technical problems,” says Pommie Mbangwa in the commentary box.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Van der Merwe drags the fifth ball of the 18th down leg and Rizwan gets down on one knee and pulls it behind square.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan 81/3 in 16 overs. Well we are putting that phantom ball issue on the back burner at the moment. The camera is now showing the crude scorecard at the stadium as the numbers that are supposed to be there at the bottom of the picture is still nowhere to be seen.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan are 78/3 in 15 (?) overs. Well gremlins seem to have taken over the broadcast since that phantom ball. The scorecard has disappeared entirely and for a second, the picture cut and shifted like this World Cup was being played in 1996.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Shakeel steers it towards square leg and four more but strangely enough, the umpire has called over. That was only the fifth ball, unless we have all forgotten how to count. Well, the game continues somehow. Pakistan are 72/3 in what should be 13.5 overs but it seems 14 overs have been done.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan 66/3 in 12.3 overs. Rizwan pulls the third ball of the 13th from Dut over wide long-on.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan 62/3 in 12 overs. Shakeel has reached 12 off 9 balls, Rizwan on 16 off 11.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan are 53/3 in 11 overs. Shakeel nicks the last ball of that over to first slip but streaks underneath the fielders hand nd goes to the boundary.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: How Rizwan did not drag that on is a mystery. Third ball of the 11th from Dutt, it spins back in sharply and takes the inside edge of the bat. Just trickles behind for four without doing any damage.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Imam hooks the first ball of the 10th from Van Meekeren and it is put right down the throat of the fielder at deep fine leg. Pakistan’s top three has crumbled in the first 10 overs.

Imam c Dutt b van Meekeren 15 (19), Pakistan 38/3 in 9.1 overs

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Babar has pulled it straight to midwicket. The Netherlands are a cock-a-hoop and who can stop them. Babar Azam gone for just five, Colin Ackermann brought on in place of Dutt this over and he strikes with the biggest wicket of them all off just the third ball.

Babar c Saqib Zulfiqar b Ackermann 5 (18), Pakistan 34/2 in 8.3 overs

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Second ball of the eighth from Van Beek is fullish, Imam goes through with the drive and the ball goes through extra cover.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan are 24/1. Babar has faced seven balls and scored two runs, Imam has scored 10 in 14.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Zaman spoons it back to the bowler and that is another low score for him.

Fakharr Zaman c&b van Beek 12 (15), Pakistan 15/1 in 3.4 overs

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Just the one run that Imam took to get off the mark apart from those two boundaries from Fakhar. There was a big appeal for LBW off the last ball but it was going down leg.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Logan Van Beek bowling the second over, and the first over of pace in this match. He gets a leading edge off Zaman off the second ball and it goes over cover point and to the boundary. Then he clips the third ball in front of square.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Fakhar manages to play the last ball of the first over fine and off it goes to the boundary.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Out walk Imam-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman for Pakistan. Netherlands start with spin, it is Aryan Dutt with the new ball in hand. How is the stadium looking? Extremely, extremely empty.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Here we go then, the national anthem of the Netherlands comes first and then Pakistan’s.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Vikramjit Singh, Max ODowd, Colin Ackermann, Scott Edwards(w/c), Bas de Leede, Teja Nidamanuru, Saqib Zulfiqar, Logan van Beek, Roelof van der Merwe, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Imam-ul-Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Saud Shakeel, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: “We will try our best with the bat. We believe in our openers, Imam and Fakhar. Shaheen is there as well. Hasan is back in the side. We are looking at 290-300 plus.”

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: We will bowl first, might get a little bit easier under lights. We got some quality bowlers and spinners who can bowl in the powerplay. For us it’s about adjusting and see how the pitch is playing.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: The Netherlands win the toss and will bowl first.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan captain Babar Azam and Netherlands captain Scott Edwards are strolling out with the match referee Jeff Crowe and the toss representative. Seconds away now.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: The pitch is rock hard, says Shane Watson. There could be a lot of runs, say Watson and Pommie Mbangwa. “63 metres square, 65 metres on the other side. Straight is 75. Looks like a good wicket, little bit of dryness at the top but it is rock hard. Could get better under lights, lot of runs to be scored.”

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Just about 2 months before this tournament, Pakistan had the world at their feet. Their batters were purring as were their fast bowlers. And yet, their Fakhar Zaman’s poor form since then has meant that Pakistan have had practically no opening partnerships at all in recent days. Shadab Khan is struggling and, most importantly, Naseem Shah is out of the tournament.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Just six times have these two sides faced each other in ODI matches. Pakistan have won all of those games.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan had no issues with rain in their first two warm-up games in Hyderabad and it seems like that would be the case today as well. It is currently around 32 degrees and the temperature is expected to hover around 24 in the second half of the game. Expect the ball to skid on and be better for batting under lights.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Both their warm-up matches were affected by rain with one game completely washed out, implying that the last time they played a full ODI match was in the World Cup qualifier in July when they finished ahead of two-time world champions West Indies and another full-member Ireland.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Played in the same format as Cricket World Cup 2019, the 10 teams at Cricket World Cup 2023 will play every other side once in a single round robin format, with the top four teams going on to the semi-finals. The top team after the round robin will play the team finishing fourth on the table, while the second and third-place finishers will meet in the other semi-final. The winners of each semi-final will meet in the final on 20 November. Piece of cake, eh?

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: The Pakistan players have been almost unanimous in their praise for the hospitality they have received since arriving in Hyderabad. It will be interesting what the crowd looks like in this match though. Ticket distribution has been a problem to say the least in all matches but with most Pakistan fans still awaiting their visas, the atmosphere at the stadium could be a strange one. At the same time though, they had good support during the warm-up matches andthe players have said that they have been mighty pleased with whatever little interactions they have had with Indian people thus far.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: That is what Bas de Leede has said. “We want to make the semi-finals. You know, if we want to get there, we’ve got to win four or five games. So, we’d have to take down one of the big teams.”

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan have lost the first World Cup match at the last two tournaments, and four of the last five.

Hyderabad has been Pakistan’s base and among the many things the city is famous for, is the biryani. Shadab had jokingly placed the blame on the dish for Pakistan’s fielding troubles and during the captain’s conference, Ravi Shastri asked Babar Azam about it.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Babar Azam is currently 26 runs away from becoming the first active Pakistan batter to make 500 ODI World Cup runs. Ijaz Ahmed, Saleem Malik, Zaheer Abbas, Aamer Sohail, Misbah-ul-Haq, Imran Khan, Ramiz Raja, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Saeed Anwar and Javed Miandad are the other Pakistan batters to have done so, with Miandad the only one from the country who has scored over 1000 World Cup runs. A pantheon of greats.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: The Pakistan coach threw his weight behind the struggling star all-rounder. “I wholeheartedly back Shadab’s ability. He’s a wonderful cricketer. You look at his package of bowling, batting, fielding, he’s exceptional,” Arthur said in a pre-match press conference. “If we look at his bowling in isolation, he’s just short of a little confidence. He hasn’t lost his ability to turn the ball. His googly is still very, very good. He’s one performance away from getting that confidence back and making sure that he has a real big influence on this World Cup,” Arthur added.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Pakistan’s vice-captain has been having a rough time of it off late, particularly with the ball. He conceded a whopping 218 runs in 35 overs at 109 per wicket in his last four matches at the Asia Cup and didn’t look much better in the warm-up matches.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: It is quite incredible to think that Pakistan will play more matches in this World Cup in India than they ever have when this tournament had been hosted in this country before, despite the fact that the 2023 tournament happens to be held in an era where bilateral cricket relations between the two nations has been put on ice. Only twice have Pakistan played World Cup matches in India before. Both have been against India and both ended in their defeat. The first was the 1996 quarterfinal in Bengaluru and the second in the 2011 semifinal in Mohali.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Netherlands star Bas de Leede’s father Tim de Leede played in the first three World Cups that Netherlands played in (1996, 2003 & 2007). They will become the seventh father-son pair to feature in World Cups.

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: “The quality of the players that we have in those positions is undoubted. So, it’s about making sure that those guys are in a great space technically, they’re in a great space mentally, and then just hopefully that they click tomorrow and then from there the confidence just grows and grows and grows. So, I’ve got no worry around the skills of the players we have. The skills there are exceptional.”

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Vikramjit Singh, Max ODowd, Wesley Barresi, Scott Edwards(w/c), Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Teja Nidamanuru, Roelof van der Merwe, Saqib Zulfiqar, Logan van Beek, Paul van Meekeren, Ryan Klein, Aryan Dutt, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Shariz Ahmad

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: Imam-ul-Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Shaheen Afridi, Saud Shakeel, Agha Salman, Usama Mir, Abdullah Shafique

Pakistan vs Netherlands Live Score: There has probably been more conversations around Pakistan’s participation in this World Cup than there has probably been for any team in any other edition of this tournament. But here we are now, all that talk is in the background and what is in front of us is, hopefully, just cricket. Pakistan fans can’t be blamed for thinking that their side have a rather easy match to start off with. They are among the highest ranked ODI teams in the world and Netherlands are an associate nation but surprises are nothing new in the World Cup.