South Africa Aim For Big Win Against Netherlands

Chittagong - South Africa would look to boost their net-run-rate with a big win against struggling qualifier Netherlands in a Group 1 Super 10 match of the ICC World Twenty20 on Thursday.

After scraping to a narrow two-run win over New Zealand, riding on heroics of Dale Steyn, South Africa now have a chance to improve on the negative net run-rate (-0.075) as they are unlikely to be challenged by the minnows.

With one defeat and a win, South Africa are placed third with two points and Thursday is their chance to move up before they face more serious challenge in England on Saturday.

New Zealand too are on two points with similar results but they are placed second due to a better NRR (+0.276).

Sri Lanka are sitting pretty on top with two wins and the fight for the second place is three-way among South Africa, New Zealand and England.

It is a tremendous challenge for Netherlands, who are coming into the match after suffering one of the biggest T20 defeats in the history of the game, to make it a contest against one of the best teams in international cricket.

In the qualifiers, they showed they are a good unit. Skipper Peter Borren along with Stephen Myburgh and Wesley Barresi are the backbone of their batting. The all-round abilities of Tom Cooper further gives them the sting.

But it remains to be seen how they regroup and recover from that morale-sapping defeat against Sri Lanka after being all out for lowest total of 39 in T20 history.

They have nothing to lose and should give it all. Their paceman Timm van der Gugten is a good prospect. He has good speed and consistently hits the 140kmph mark but struggles with line and length.

Teams from

South Africa - Faf du Plessis (Capt.), Hashim Amla, Quinton de Kock (wk), AB de Villiers, Jean-Paul Duminy, Beuran Hendricks, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Albie Morkel, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Aaron Phangiso, Dale Steyn and Lonwabo Tsotsobe.

Netherlands - Peter Borren (Capt.), Wesley Barresi (wk), Mudassar Bukhari, Ben Cooper, Tom Cooper, Tom Heggelman, Ahsan Malik, Vivian Kingma, Stephan Myburgh, Michael Rippon, Pieter Seelaar, Michael Swart, Eric Szwarczynski, Logan van Beek and Timm van der Gugten.

Match facts
Thursday March 27, 2014 (day/night)
Start time 1530 local (0930 GMT)

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No games being played at this time. 1st Test - Australia v India - November 22-26, 02:20 GMT 1st Test - West Indies v Bangladesh - November 22-26, 14:00 GMT 3rd ODI - Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Kandy No results 3rd T20I - Australia v Pakistan at Hobart Australia won by 7 wickets (with 52 balls remaining)

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