India vs Netherlands T20 World Cup Highlights: IND beat NED by 17 runs in Ahmedabad

The Netherlands need 28 runs from the final over here. This partnership between Cachet and Croes has put quite a punch. Well, well, India has opted to go with Dube here. If the Netherlands gets hold of a few, it might get quite interesting.

Bumrah has come back into the attack here intresting move this from Surya, we have seen often during his captaincy tenure not use his strike bowlers once he knows his side is closing on a win. Yes Netherlands are still in the hunt, but to be fair, India must be closing this out even without Bumrah's overs here, shouldn't they? Regardless, he has come in, and he will be looking to pick a wicket and close this game out, and there is the timber rattled. The ace pacer got his wicket with a good-length delivery. Another box ticked.

This is turning into a good partnership between Ackerman and De Leede. India needs to be a bit careful, they still have their strike weapons overs intact, but on this ground, it has a tendency where the batting in the second innings becomes extremely easy. It is a six-hitting ground, and if one of these batters in the middle is standing till the 20th over, the Netherlands would have thrown a few punches towards India by the end of it. But at this moment, it must be said India is ahead, with the Netherlands still looking to play safe cricket rather.

Varun Chakarvarthy bowled a googly, which Max O'Dowd did not pick up and tried to hit the ball out of the park and lost his leg-stump. It will be a challenge for the associate nations. They might have played other types of bowlers in this team, but they will not have Chakarvarthy before or too often, hence it will be a bit harder for them to read him and hit him for boundaries. As we update, Hardik Pandya has come into the attack early on. We have seen him open the bowling against Namibia and Pakistan, but today it has been Arshdeep and Bumrah.

India has bowled well here with not too much to show for. Arsdeep did induce the edge a couple of times with a slip in place, and the ball did not carry twice. The Netherlands batters both seem to be struggling a bit to deal with the Indian new ball bowlers. As we update, Abhishek Sharma has dropped a catch here. The ball came back in and moved away, and Dowd edged it, and the slip is not exactly in the first slip place or in the second, it is somewhere in between, and Abhishek dived to his left and could not take the catch, and the ball ran away for a boundary.

Netherlands (Playing XI): Michael Levitt, Max O’Dowd, Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Scott Edwards(w/c), Zach Lion-Cachet, Noah Croes, Roelof van der Merwe, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt, Kyle Klein

India (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Arshdeep Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah

This is a terrific score for India already. Hardik Pandya has been stunning with his batting here. He took his time initially, but now has slammed a couple of lovely sixes of good length deliveries into the stands, which takes immense strength. They did start well did the Dutch, but they kept losing control of this game as the innings went on.

We are into the final four overs here. India is on course to get 180 here. Given the bowling attack, that should be enough, but on Sunday against South Africa, if they were to bat first, will they be able to deliver a display simialr sort of clamness will be the question? The wicket was a bit sticky to start here for India, but they managed to bat well. Shivam Dube and Surya have batted well through the middle overs, and now they have laid the platform for batters to hit. It has not just been blind hitting from them, where they have gone after the bowling.

India has scored a couple of sixes here in the last couple of overs. First, it came from the bat of Suryakumar Yadav, who hit on his shorter side, and Shivam Dube followed it up with another one. India has not raced away with the run-rate here. They have played it pretty cautiously, is the word. The run-rate is around that 7.50 mark through the evening, and now it does seem like both the batters have decided they have had enough and are taking on the bowlers by peppering those shorter boundaries, not that it would matter much for Dube, who is hitting them deep into the stands.

Suryakumar Yadav has been dropped here. It was his favourite shot, which also brought him quite a bit of downfall, and the fielder at deep square-leg was all by himself, and he ended up spilling the chance. So far, they have been pretty clinical in the Netherlands in the game, but that was an uncalled foul. That shot is another indication that the pitch is a bit on the slower side. We have seen it in the past at this venue, when games tend to start at 7:30 or 7, the ball starts a bit slow. As we update, Tilak Varma has fallen to a brilliant catch from Roelof van der Merwe.

Well, what do we know? Aryan Dutt has picked up his second wicket bowling in the powerplay, and it is Ishan Kishan who is the batter who tried to pull the ball, and it went on his knees and rolled onto the stumps. He tried to hit it out with his bat, but it was too late, and the ball rolled onto the stumps. India has lost two early wickets here, both to off-spinner which is a bit of a concern. Suryakumar Yadav is the new batter who has come in for India. He, alongside Tilak Varma need to build a partnership in the middle.

That is the third duck in a row for Abhishek Sharma. The new ball always skids through, and the same happened on that occasion. The change in jersey does not bring in any fortune to Abhishek. He has had superb form coming into the tournament, but it seems like he has gotten into the habit of getting low scores at the wrong time of the tournament. Tilak Varma has walked into the middle, and he, too, has not been in good form in recent times. He will be looking to get some runs going into the crucial stage of the tournament.

"Last game of Group A comes from Ahmedabad, and the weather is pretty good to be honest. It says 31 is the high. I think we've gone past that, and it'll be closer to 29 degrees, which is very comfortable, especially with that breeze and the low humidity. The all-important ground dimensions, if you have a look at it, it is 70 metres down the ground, and batting at this end as a right-hander, it's shorter leg side, 60 metres and a bit further, 68 metres," informs Nasser Hussain. "It's a batter's paradise. And it gets better as the night comes on. The dew gets in here a little bit later on. But batters love it here. Second highest scoring ground in the competition so far. So maybe there are a few cracks, but they do absolutely nothing. Now I'll tell you what, as a bowler, well what is successful here? We've seen actually that fuller length, sometimes in the slot area, has been really effective. But it's been more pace off delivery. So if you're a pace bowler, which two teams here, Netherlands and India, both have exceptional pace bowling units, get the ball into the surface, be able to cause a little bit of issues. And we know there's some world-class batters on show that oval light up for those boundary dimensions you've talked about," adds Katey Martin. "Yeah, it is a good pitch. It's black soil. It looks rock hard. Excellent surface. There'll be a real atmosphere here as well this evening. We're looking forward to it."

Yeah, we would (have batted). Also looks like pretty good wickets. (what are you looking for from this game?) Obviously, yeah, playing in India is always an awesome experience. We feel like we've played a lot of good cricket. We've probably missed a couple of chances. So, yeah, for us, it's just about finishing our campaign well. (what are the areas you are trying to improve?) Probably all over the streak now, I think. You know, in patches we've been good with the bat and with the ball. But, yeah, just looking to put in a complete performance today. We have one change - Noah Croes comes in for Fred Klaassen.

Ishan Kishan(w), Abhishek Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav(c), Hardik Pandya, Shivam Dube, Rinku Singh, Washington Sundar, Varun Chakaravarthy, Jasprit Bumrah, Arshdeep Singh

“It’s always better to play a spinner with the full face of the bat, especially when the straighter boundaries are shorter,” he said referring to the R Premadasa Stadium in the Sri Lankan capital. “It’s even more so when the bowler in question (Axar Patel) is not known to turn the ball as much as other spinners.”

“It’s a relief that we don’t have a series against India. We only face them in bilateral series, otherwise their B or C team would beat us,” he said. “Our team is nowhere near the level of the top five teams.”

"Powerplay pe thoda better aa raha tha bat pe. Phir bhi, the way Ishan has batted, dusre end se mujhe bhi laga, strike hee nahin mila powerplay mein. Toh mujhe bhi laga maar raha hai toh accha hee hai team ke liye. Main bola, 'Bhai tu lagaate reh'. Agar wicket gira dusre end pe, main sambhalta hoon. Rotate karunga" ("The ball was coming onto the bat better in the powerplay. But the way Ishan batted it seemed like he was batting on a different pitch and I didn't get strike in the powerplay. I thought it's good for the team if he keeps hitting. I told him, 'Keep hitting, if the wicket falls at the other end, I'll take care of it and rotate strike.")

"Where did they win to lose the plot? Pakistan lost the game when they opted to bowl first after winning the toss because we saw the match between Australia and Zimbabwe. Australia struggled to get 170. When we see IPL matches, teams win easily if they need 100 runs off the last 10 overs. But it’s not happening in this World Cup. In Premadasa Stadium, you can’t chase 100 in ten overs. The way Pakistan deals with pressure, India are 100 times better in that aspect. I don’t think Pakistan are there. Honestly, Pakistan have become tactically better under Salman Agha and Mike Hesson. But the way they brought Shaheen Afridi after Agha’s first over was a terrible mistake,” Ashwin said on his YouTube channel “Ash ki Baat”.

“Everyone is in a good space. It’s really about the way the team is getting together, the way players have been interacting with each other,” he said. “I see positive signs, not only in the World Cup, but for a long time. Apart from one or two changes, it's more or less the same team we have been playing for the last 10-15 games. It's a great environment.”

“We unnecessarily don’t over-analyse. Sometimes you start making more assumptions than the opposition. He (Abhishek) has got his plan sorted and plays the way he wants to. Obviously, we discuss the opposition, their bowling, their strengths, and whatever they have been doing in the last few games,” Kotak said.

"It's a massive opportunity to be playing against India in India at the biggest stadium, it is something all the guys are really looking forward to. It's a great opportunity to test yourselves against the best. Obviously, soccer is the main sport and we probably will never get to that level, but for us it's just promoting the game, and hopefully our performances can help grow that game in the Netherlands,"

Michael Levitt, Max O'Dowd, Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Scott Edwards, Zach Lion-Cachet, Roelof van der Merwe, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren, Fred Klaasen