Netherlands vs South Africa ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 Match 16

Get ready for an electrifying battle between Netherlands and South Africa in the ongoing 9th edition of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 tomorrow. This match will be the second match for both of the teams in the ongoing tournament which will be played at Nassau Cricket Stadium in New York. It will be interesting to see which team will emerge victorious in tomorrow’s game of these 2 nations as they share a great rivalry against each other when it comes to the ICC event, where the Dutch have defeated the Proteas in the last year 50-overs World as well as in the T20 World Cup 2022.

Talking about the form of both the teams in the ongoing tournament, they are coming to this game after winning their opening games against Nepal and Sri Lanka. However, the South African team are coming into the main event after losing the 3-match T20I series against West Indies by 3-0. Despite being an associate team, Netherlands have always dominated the South African team in ICC events whether it’s the 50-overs format or the 20-overs format.

Netherlands vs South Africa Head-to-Head Records

If we look at the clash of these 2 teams in the ICC event, they have met only twice from the 8 editions of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, where both have got 1-1 points each. In the first meeting, the Proteas team defeated the Netherlands by 6 runs. On the other hand, Netherlands made the biggest upset of the last year T20 World Cup 2022 by defeating them and knocking it out of the tournament by 13 runs.

Both teams are placed in group D of the tournament with Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as the 3 other teams. Let’s look at the squad of both teams and know who could be the main player for these teams in the upcoming match.

Netherlands:

Scott Edwards (captain), Aryan Dutt, Bas de Leede, Daniel Doram, Fred Klaassen, Logan van Beek, Max O'Dowd, Michael Levitt, Paul van Meekeren, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Teja Nidamanuru, ⁠⁠Tim Pringle, Vikram Singh, Viv Kingma, Wesley Barresi

South Africa:

Aiden Markram, Quinton de Kock, Reeza Hendricks, Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Ryan Rickelton, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Ottneil Baartman, Gerald Coetzee, Keshav Maharaj, Bjorn Fortuin, Anrich Nortje, Kagiso Rabada, Bjorn Fortuin, Tabraiz Shamsi

Looking at the squad of the Netherlands team and on the basis of the last match performance Max O'Dowd could play a crucial role in the Dutch's batting order they scored a crucial half-century in the last match against Nepal. Apart from him, all the eyes will be on Van Beek and Meekeranw, who picked 2 and 3 wickets, respectively.

Meanwhile, South Africa, Anrich Nortje, Bartman and Rabada's trio could damage Dutch's team batting order with their sheer pace on the tough pitch for batters at New York Cricket Stadium.

Netherland’s probable XI:

Michael Levitt, Max ODowd, Vikramjit Singh, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Bas de Leede, Scott Edwards(w/c), Teja Nidamanuru, Logan van Beek, Tim Pringle, Paul van Meekeren, Vivian Kingma

South Africa's probable XI:

Quinton de Kock (wk), Reeza Hendricks, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen, David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Marco Jansen, Keshav Maharaj, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tabraiz Shamsi.

Who will win the match between Netherlands and South Africa?

After going  through the above stats and records of these teams, we will be going with the Proteas team, who are looking stronger after their win against Sri Lanka to win the 16th match of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024