Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat first against India

Toss: Netherlands win and choose to bat. Peter Borren: "We have been a bit disappointing with the bat recently, and we have a chance first up to rectify that."

Pitch report: Sunny Gavaskar terms this pitch as "National Highway No. 6". Enough said! "The ball may keep a little low in the second innings, but this is a batsman's pitch alright."

Nice sunny day in the capital, and unlike the other day when Canada and Kenya faced off, the bizarrely shaped straight stands are filled with people. Expect a full house as we get into the evening.


India squad


MS Dhoni*†, V Sehwag, R Ashwin, PP Chawla, G Gambhir, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, V Kohli, A Nehra, MM Patel, YK Pathan, SK Raina, S Sreesanth, SR Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh.


Netherlands squad


PW Borren*, Adeel Raja, W Barresi†, Mudassar Bukhari, AF Buurman†, TLW Cooper, TN de Grooth, AN Kervezee, BP Kruger, BP Loots, PM Seelaar, ES Szwarczynski, RN ten Doeschate, BA Westdijk, B Zuiderent

India looks for easy points today against Netherlands

According to the fresh reports form the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, Indian cricket team is all set to grab a huge win against the Netherlands today at Delhi.

Yuvraj Singh

The match is being played at Ferozeshah Kotla ground here in New Delhi. This is going to be day-night match between the two teams form the Group-B.

While talking to media, the captain from the India team, MS Dhoni said, “An easy win is what we are looking for.”

India is the second ranked team in the world right now, while the Netherlands is the last ranked team, 12^th, in the Cricket rating.

From India point of view, the key player for today’s match would Yuvraj Singh, the hero of last game, as well as Sachin Tendulkar, who need just 18 more runs to complete 200 runs in the World Cup. Sachin is playing his 6^th World Cup, the most by any other batsman in the world, other than Ramiz Raja from Pakistan.

On the other hand, the Netherlands key player would be Ten Doeschate, the same batsmen who hit superb 119 against England, in which the Netherlands scored 292runs in their 50over.

However, the Netherlands gave away 140 and 166 runs in their last two match against West Indies and South Africa in the last 15 overs of the match.

ICC World Cup- Netherlands scores 292 runs against England

This is really a superb batting performance by the Netherlands batsman. The team really played a good cricket here and put 292 runs on the board.

The star batsman from the Netherlands was Ryan ten Doeschate, he hit a blasting 100 and due to they were able to make 292 runs.

Ten Doeschate's career-best 119 came off just 110 balls which includes three sixes and nine fours as the Dutch, who beat England at Lord's in the opening match of the 2009 World Twenty20, eyed another upset victory in Group B.

Ten Doeschate shared a third-wicket stand of 78 with Tom Cooper (47) and then added further 50 in just 49 balls during the fifth with Tom de Grooth (28) after Dutch captain Peter Borren won the toss.

The Netherlands:

A KERVEZEE c Prior b Bresnan 16

W BARRESI st Prior b Swann 29

T COOPER c Anderson b Collingwood 47

R TEN DOESCHATE c Bopara b Broad 119

B ZUIDERENT c Collingwood b Swann 1

T DE GROOTH b Broad 28

P BORREN not out 35

M BUKHARI not out 6

Sundries (3b, 3lb, 2w, 3nb) 11

Total (6 wkts - 50 overs) 292

Fall of wickets: 36 (Kervezee), 58 (Barresi), 136 (Cooper), 149 (Zuiderent), 213 (de Grooth), 274 (ten Doeschate).

Bowling: J Anderson 10-0-72-0 (2nb), S Broad 10-2-65-2 (1w 1nb), T Bresnan 10-0-49-1 (1w), G Swann 10-0-35-2, P Collingwood 8-0-46-1, K Pietersen 2-0-19-0.

Here are some more EXTRA SHORTS about World Cup

Fact 1

India’s master blaster Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman to be dismissed via third umpire during the World Cup 1992.

Fact 2

The one-day matches were reduced from 60 overs to 50 overs, during the 1987 World Cup matches mainly due to shorter daylight hours in the region.

Fact 3

South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs smashed six sixes in an over, the first time ever in an ODI and the first ever in the World Cup match against the Netherlands during a group league match in 2003.

Fact 4

Arjuna Ranatunga, the captain of Sri Lanka team that lifted the world cup in 1996, played around 93 tests smashing 5105 runs and 269 ODIs and scoring 7456 runs before being selected as Member of Parliament.