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After a pandemic-enforced wait of well over a year. The Netherlands are finally set to make their entry into the Cricket World Cup Super League this week. When they welcome their former Associate sparring partners Ireland for a three-match ODI series at Utrecht. As the only qualifier in the competition, their debut marks the culmination of a six-year campaig. That started at World Cricket League Division 2 in Namibia back in 2015.

Their victory saw them return to the Associate top-flight. Where they went on to win the final edition of the WCL Championship to reclaim ODI status and secure the only Associates spot in the top-tier 13-team Super League alongside the 12 Full Members.

Ireland will look at the series as a chance to reverse a poor start to their Super League campaign. Their fifty-overs record against the Dutch unblemished by defeat since 2007. Their most recent ODI encounter was back in 2013 however, where a dramatic tie in the second of their two-match WCL Championship series saw Ireland secure their qualification for the 2015 World Cup. While the Netherlands would eventually fall just short, the series in retrospect marking the beginning of the Dutch descent that would bottom out at Windhoek in January of 2015.

Since then the Netherlands have held the upper hand in white-ball cricket, though the two sides have only met in T20 internationals for the past few years the Dutch have won seven of their last nine matches, starting with the famous win at Sylhet that sent Ireland out of the 2014 World T20.

Match Information

Match: Netherlands vs Ireland

Series: Ireland tour of Netherlands, 2021

Date: Wednesday, June 02, 2021

Time: 10:30 local / 08:30 GMT / 13:30 PKT

Venue: Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd, Utrecht

Umpires: Christopher Phiri, Forster Mutizwa

Third Umpire: Langton Rusere

Match Referee: Emmanuel Dube

Netherlands vs Ireland Live Score

Venue Guide

Stadium: Sportpark Maarschalkerweerd

City: Utrecht

Capacity: 10,000

Measures:

Ends: City End, Club House End

Hosts to: Kampong

Also Hosts:

Netherlands vs Ireland Toss

N/A

Netherlands vs Ireland Squads

Netherlands:

Stephan Myburgh, Max ODowd, Ben Cooper, Pieter Seelaar(c), Scott Edwards(w), Bas de Leede, Saqib Zulfiqar, Logan van Beek, Philippe Boissevain, Brandon Glover, Vivian Kingma, Timm van der Gugten, Tobias Visee, Fred Klaassen, Musa Ahmed.

Ireland:

Paul Stirling, Kevin O Brien, Andrew Balbirnie(c), Harry Tector, Lorcan Tucker(w), Simi Singh, George Dockrell, Mark Adair, Andy McBrine, Craig Young, Joshua Little, William Porterfield, Graeme McCarter, Barry McCarthy, Benjamin White.

Match Prediction – Who Will Win

Netherlands are expected to win this match.

Netherlands vs Ireland Stats

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Weather and Pitch Conditions

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