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Get ready for an electrifying battle between Netherlands and Nepal in the ongoing 9th edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, tomorrow. This match will be the opening match for both teams at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. It will be interesting to see which team will emerge victorious in tomorrow’s game of these 2 nations as Nepal will be debuting in the T20 World Cup, whereas the Dutch sides have already been part of the shortest format of the game, since 2018.
Talking about both teams, they are placed in group D with South Africa, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as the other 3 teams. By Comparing both the teams, no doubt! The Dutch team have looked better than the debutant, who will be playing their first game of the T20 World Cup. On the other hand, Nepal is another associate nation that managed to qualify for the tournament playing the Qualifiers. However, They lost the final of the Qualifier against Oman in the Super Over.
If we look at the performance of both the teams during the warm-up games are coming into this game after losing their warm-up game against Canada and their next match against USA, was washed out. Whereas the Dutch surprised the Sri Lankan team by defeating them by 20 runs.
Pitch Conditions
This match will be played at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. where, the first game between the USA and Canada was a high-scoring encounter which was won by the USA while chasing.
The pitches used are drop-in pitches relayed and brought in from other parts of the world. The outfield also looked very fast from how the first game transpired. We can be in for another high-scoring contest
Squads:
Netherlands
Scott Edwards (c and wk), Wesley Barresi, Logan van Beek, Aryan Dutt, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Kyle Klein, Bas de Leede, Michael Levitt, Viv Kingma, Paul van Meekeren, Teja Nidamanuru, Max O'Dowd, Tim Pringle, Vikram Singh, Saqib Zulfiqar
Nepal
Rohit Paudel (C), Dipendra Singh Airee, Aasif Sheikh, Anil Kumar Sah, Kushal Malla, Lalit Rajbanshi, Karan KC, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami, Pratis GC, Sundeep Jora, Abinash Bohara, Sagar Dhakal, Kamal Singh Airee.
Who will win the match between the Netherlands and Nepal?
Looking at the current form of both the teams, Netherlands are favourites to win the upcoming game. However, it would not be easy against the Young Nepal team who will be representing their country for the first time in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.