Netherlands oust Ireland in sixes feast
Myburgh helps Dutch side to qualify for Super-10.
Tom Cooper’s 15-ball 45 comprised six sixes and a boundary, with the Dutch batsman hitting four sixes off George Dockrell’s 11th over. PHOTO: ICC
SYLHET:
The Netherlands smashed the record for most sixes in an innings on their way to upsetting Ireland, romping into the Super-10 stage in the World Twenty20.
Wesley Barresi hit the 19th six of the innings to seal an emphatic six-wicket win as the Netherlands chased down a daunting 190-run target in just 13.5 overs.
Their rampaging victory means the Netherlands qualify for the Super-10 from Group B at the expense of more fancied Zimbabwe and Ireland.
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In all, 30 sixes were hit in the match, beating the previous record of 24 set by New Zealand and India in 2009.
The Netherlands owed their exhilarating chase to a fiery 23-ball 63 by opener Stephan Myburgh, 15-ball 45 by Tom Cooper and an unbeaten 22-ball 40 by Barresi.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2014.
The Netherlands smashed the record for most sixes in an innings on their way to upsetting Ireland, romping into the Super-10 stage in the World Twenty20.
Wesley Barresi hit the 19th six of the innings to seal an emphatic six-wicket win as the Netherlands chased down a daunting 190-run target in just 13.5 overs.
Their rampaging victory means the Netherlands qualify for the Super-10 from Group B at the expense of more fancied Zimbabwe and Ireland.
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In all, 30 sixes were hit in the match, beating the previous record of 24 set by New Zealand and India in 2009.
The Netherlands owed their exhilarating chase to a fiery 23-ball 63 by opener Stephan Myburgh, 15-ball 45 by Tom Cooper and an unbeaten 22-ball 40 by Barresi.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2014.