Pakistan and Netherlands, the only point - less teams till now in the tournament, will be locking horns against each other in the 17th game of the super 12 stage at the perth.
Overview:
Pakistan: The most unpredictable team in the world has once more stunned the world but with the poor performance , firstly they lost to India on the back of Virat Kohli's brilliance and then lost a close thriller against Zimbabwe . For Pakistan, it’s highly unlikely that they make it to semi finals because now even after winning all their remaining games, they will have to depend on results of other games .
Captain Babar Azam and M Rizwan, who are the two pillars of this batting line up, have failed together to put up a big score and that has hurted Pakistan , they would be hoping for some runs from the bat for the team. Haider Ali might be replaced by bringing in Fakhar Zaman at top, Haider Ali has failed to perform in both the important games and looks clueless lower down the order . In bowling, Pakistan doesn't really have any flaw , they actually have got one of the best bowling line up of the tournament in the form of Haris Rauf , Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah , Mohammad Nawaz and Shadab Khan.
Netherlands: The team which came into Super 12 by playing the qualifiers are yet to win a game in group stage but they are showing good resistance against higher ranked teams. Their bowling has been upto the mark in this tournament as they didn't allowed Bangladesh to reach even 150 in first game and also didn't let India batters to run away with the game in first few overs as they were very disciplined with their line and length. Bas Dee Leede has taken 9 wickets in just 5 games in this tournament and tomorrow he needs just one wicket to become second bowler to reach 10 wickets in this tournament. In Batting, Ackerman is doing a good job for them, he almost won them a game when they faced Bangladesh in their first Super 12 stage game. Max O’ Dowd is another batter who's looking good and Netherlands will be hoping that their batters step and show some resistance against a top quality bowling line up of Pakistan. Tail ender Paul Van Meekeren is showing great intent and can be promoted up the order to ease out their nerves during the chase.
Approaching milestones:
- Mohammad Rizwan needs 22 Runs to complete 3000 T20I Runs
- Shadab Khan needs 6 more runs to complete 2000 T20 Runs
- Shaheen Afridi needs 3 wickets to complete 50 T20I wickets
- Fakhar Zaman needs 13 Runs to complete 5000 T20 Runs
- Iftikhar Ahmed needs 6 runs to complete 4000 T20 Runs
- Haris Rauf needs 4 wickets to complete 100 International Wickets
- Haider Ali needs just 1 run to complete 500 T20I runs
- If Asif Ali is picked and he gets a chance to bat, then this would be his 50th T20I innings
Head to head:
Pakistan have faced Netherlands only once in T20is and they won that game comfortably
Pitch / Weather Report:
Perth provides to be a tough wicket for batters , we have seen batters struggling at this wicket , last game Pakistan struggle to chase 130 odd on this wicket and so it will be interesting to see how theiy approach this time around .
Temperature is expected to be In the range of 13- 16 during game time and there are minimal chances of rain interrupting the game
Venue : Optus Stadium, Perth
Date & Time: Oct 30th and at 12:30 PM IST and local time 3:00 pm
Live Streaming: Star Sports Network and Disney+ Hotstar
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