{"id":38623,"date":"2024-06-05T13:46:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T08:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=38623"},"modified":"2024-06-05T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T08:46:53","slug":"odowd-guides-netherlands-win-over-nepal-in-low-scoring-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world-cup-2024\/odowd-guides-netherlands-win-over-nepal-in-low-scoring-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u2019Dowd guides netherlands win over Nepal in low-scoring thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS:\u00a0 Max <span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">O\u2019Dowd anchored the Netherlands chase with an unbeaten 54, carrying his bat as the Dutch claimed a six-wicket victory over Nepal with seven balls to spare i<\/span>n their <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/aaron-jones-knock-guides-us-victory-against-canada-in-t20-world-cup-opener\/\">T20 World Cup opener<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier, the Netherlands bowling attack put in an impressive display to restrict Nepal to 106 all out in the first innings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Runs were hard to come by for the Nepal top order on the nation&#8217;s return to World Cup action for the first time since 2014, with captain Rohit Paudel (35 from 37) the only batter to look comfortable against an attack that picked up wickets at helpful regularity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Netherlands bowlers were in good form with the ball in Dallas and bowled Nepal out for 106. <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nepal had hope when Sompal Kami had Michael Levitt caught in just the second over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">But O\u2019Dowd and Vikramjit Singh (22) settled any Dutch nerves with a steady 40-run <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">partnership<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0before Sybrand Engelbrecht added a helpful 14 from 16 to bring the target within reach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Kami (1\/18 from 4), Abinash Bohara (1\/29 from 3.4), <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> Dipendra Singh Airee (1\/6 from 2) were the wicket-takers for Nepal, but while O\u2019Dowd was in the middle it was always the men in orange who were in control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And the experienced opener finished unbeaten on 54* from 48 balls, with Bas de Leede hitting the winning runs to end on 11*(10).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Earlier, a rain shower ensured that the toss was officially delayed by half an hour, prompting fears of a reduced-overs contest in front of a big crowd in Dallas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS:\u00a0 Max O\u2019Dowd anchored the Netherlands chase with an unbeaten 54, carrying his bat as the Dutch claimed a six-wicket victory over Nepal with seven balls to spare in their T20 World Cup opener on Tuesday. Earlier, the Netherlands bowling attack put in an impressive display to restrict Nepal to 106 all out in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":38626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-world-cup-2024"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}