Netherlands captain Scott Edwards missed century but ensured his team had enough runs on the board to defeat Oman by 50 runs in the second T20I between the two teams at the at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground (Ministry Turf 1) in Al Amerat on Thursday. (More Cricket News)
Oman had won the first T20I and Netherlands win in the second match sets up the series nicely for an interesting decider.
Earlier, Oman had won the toss and opted to bowl first.
Oman Vs Netherlands Playing 11s
Netherlands Playing XI: Teja Nidamanuru, Max ODowd, Bas de Leede, Scott Edwards (wk/c), Colin Ackermann, Noah Croes, Shariz Ahmad, Timm van der Gugten, Kyle Klein, Roelof van der Merwe, Vivian Kingma
Oman Playing XI: Jatinder Singh (c), Aamir Kaleem, Ashish Odedara, Hammad Mirza (wk), Sufyan Mehmood, Mehran Khan, Sandeep Goud, Jay Odedra, Muzahir Raza, Samay Shrivastava, Shakeel Ahmed
Despite losing their top three within the first seven overs, Netherlands run rate did not come down as their skipper Edwards continued playing his shots. Edwards kept going and was dismissed on the last ball of the innings when he was just a single run short of what would have been his maiden T20I hundred. His 55-ball 99 took Netherlands to a solid total of 185/6 in 20 overs.
Dutch bowlers then had a good outing with the ball. Tim van der Gugten picked two wickets from his first two balls to give a big jolt to Oman top order. Collin Ackermann then picked up three wickets for just 15 runs in four overs to close the game in the middle overs. Oman could only get to 135/7 and lost the match by 50 runs.
Oman had earlier won the first match by three wickets.
