World Cup 2011 India Vs Netherlands live: Will NED decision to bat first makes to win?

The most anticipated match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 between India Vs Netherlands (IND Vs NED), which will be took place at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi on March 9, at 14:30 IST. Both the teams ready to begin the interesting match with their unique strategy. Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat first.

Team India has not had simple outings until now in the tournament. They triumph against Bangladesh in their opener by 87 runs. After that in spite of scoring 338 against England they could not preserve well and the match ended in a tie. They triumph against Ireland on Sunday.

On the other side, Netherlands didn’t capable to triumph any matches until now. They opened their World Cup journey against England and later on they met up West Indies and South Africa.

The possible squad of India: 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, and Yuvraj Singh.

The possible squad of Netherlands: 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, and  B Zuiderent.

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India Vs Netherlands live score update: NED scored 100 for 4

Today’s 25th ODI match of the ICC World Cup 2011 is being played between India and Netherlands. The match is hosting by Feroz Shah Kotla stadium, New Delhi. It would be Day/Night and played under flood light condition.

Netherlands won the toss and opted to bat first against India in today’s match. Currently, Netherlands is batting on 100 runs with the loss of 4 wickets in 29.1 over’s.

Netherlands opened the match in a cool way. The team lost its first wicket in 15.2 over’s and lost their second wicket in 19 over’s. The opener Eric Swarczynski contributed only 28 runs of 42 deliveries and Wesley Barresi lost his wicket by contributing only 26 runs of 58 balls.

Piyush Chawla and Yuvraj Singh have taken 1 and 2 wicket respectively. Bas Zuiderent is batting on 0 runs of 2 balls and Alexei Kervezee is batting on 0 runs 1 deliveries.

So far, India has played three matches, in which they won 2 matches and draw one match against England, whereas Netherlands didn’t able to won any matches so far.

Ind vs Ned: Yuvraj scalps Barresi, Netherlands lose two quick wickets

NEW DELHI: Wesley Barresi became Yuvraj Singh's 100th ODI victim as Netherlands lost two wickets in quick succession against India in their World Cup clash at the Ferozeshah Kotla in New Delhi on Wednesday.

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Barresi contributed 26 runs off 58 balls, which included two fours.

Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla dismissed Eric Szwarczynski (28) to give India their first breakthrough after the Netherlands started slowly but confidently.

Szwarczynski hit four boundaries in his patient 42 balls inning and put on 56-run opening stand with Wesley Barresi for the Netherlands. He was foxed by Chawla's wrong one and was clean bowled in the 16th over.

Even though the runs were hard to come by for the Dutch, both Szwarczynski and Barresi negotiated the hosts' bowlers well as the Indian captain MS Dhoni tried as many as four bowlers in the first ten overs without success.

Earlier, Netherlands captain Peter Borren won the toss and chose to bat.

India have rested Munaf Patel and brought in Ashish Nehra.

Indian captain MS Dhoni said they would have batted first as the track is expected to go slow. But quickly added it is nice to get exposure for chasing runs. Regarding team change, he informed Nehra is back in the side in place of Munaf. Further he said that they would look to improve on their fielding and also added that they have to bowl well initially and in the Powerplay overs.

Dutch skipper Borren said that chasing has not been good for them and they will try to do the same thing that they did against England. Added they need to be disciplined in their bowling against the powerful Indian batting.

This match affords India just about the last chance to hammer out strategies and gameplans before big battles become the order of the day. After this tie, India play South Africa and West Indies, two formidable opponents, in their final group matches before the knock-outs begin.

Teams:

India: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Capt.), Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra.

Netherlands: Peter Borren (Capt.), Eric Szwarczynski, Wesley Barresi, Tom Cooper, Ryan ten Doeschate, Alexei Kervezee, Bas Zuiderent, Tom de Grooth, Bradley Kruger, Mudassar Bukhari, Pieter Seelaar.