The Australian player Glenn Maxwell was impressive on scoring 106 runs in the match against Netherlands in the World Cup 2023.
Glenn Maxwell on victory against Netherlands
Australia is scheduled to play against the Netherlands in the 24th ICC World Cup match on October 24 at Arun Jaitley Stadium. Winning the toss Australia chose to bat where Mitchell Marsh and David Warner opened the innings while Aryan Dutt opened the bowling attack.
With the dismissal of Mitchell Marsh for 9 runs by van Beek, Warner and Steven Smith made a partnership to set one of the highest totals in World Cups for Australia. David Warner scored 104 runs on 93 deliveries while Steven Smith scored 71 runs on 68 deliveries and was sent out by Aryan Dutt.
Labuschagne scored 62 runs and was sent out by Bas de Leede. Glenn Maxwell was impressive on the match scoring 106 runs on 44 deliveries and was sent out by van Beek. Other batters were sent out with low figures by a terrific bowling attack from the Netherlands bowlers.
Van Beek was impressive as he dismissed four wickets. By the end of 50 overs, Australia scored 399 runs losing 8 wickets.
With the target of 400 runs, Vikramjit Singh and Max Odowd opened the innings while Mitchell Starc was on the bowling attack. Max ODowd was sent out by Starc for 6 runs while Vikramjit Singh scored 25 runs before being dismissed on a runout.
Hazlewood dismissed Ackermann for 10 runs while Mitchell Marsh dismissed Sybrand for 11 runs. With Cummins dismissing Bas de Leede for four runs Netherlands’ middle order was collapsed by the Australian bowling attack.
Adam Zampa dismissed four wickets while Mitchell Marsh dismissed two wickets. By the end, the Netherlands was all for 90 runs losing all 10 wickets in the 21st over. Glenn Maxwell was named as the Player of the Match.
While speaking on the match Glenn Maxwell said, “I was just trying to give ourselves a good platform at the end. You can certainly cash in on this ground with the bat (batting first towards the end) and it seems under lights. Nice to get some rhythm in the tournament. Huge confidence booster.
Some doubts do creep in when you are consistently not making runs. Hopefully, I can ride forward from this. Pretty much the perfect game with bat and ball for us. Three wins now and certainly starting to get that momentum as a team,” he concluded.
Australia will be playing their next World Cup match against New Zealand on October 28 at HPCA Stadium.
