The 34-year-old proved instrumental as South Africa maintained their 100% record in their T20 group with a four-wicket triumph over the Netherlands
Netherlands 103-9, South Africa 106-6: SA won by four wicketsNew York has hosted four World Cup games in the last week, and the locals who knew nothing much about cricket seven days ago are starting to feel pretty familiar with this odd sport in which anything above a hundred runs could well be a match-winning total, fours and sixes are as hard to come by as home runs, and the USA, Canada and the Netherlands are all genuine contenders for the title.
It became two for three when Viv Kingma had Aiden Markram caught down the leg side, and then 12 for four when he got Heinrich Klaasen at deep square leg. But Miller and Stubbs settled in, and steadily turned the innings around. For a long while, it looked like the Dutch would struggle to make the few they did. Marco Jansen’s height made him almost unplayable on this springy pitch, and Anrich Nortje’s pace was hardly any easier to face. They were 35 for four off ten overs, but Sybrand Engelbrecht and Logan van Beek cobbled together 54 for the seventh wicket. Engelbrecht was born and raised in South Africa, and even played alongside Hendricks in the national U19 team at the World Cup back in 2008.
Engelbrecht quit the sport in 2016 and took it up again on the weekends only after the finance company he had joined sent him off to work in the Netherlands. His dismissal here, for a fine 45 off 40 balls, turned out to be key. There were just five balls left in the innings, but his teammates managed only one run off them. And in the end the Netherlands’ bowlers needed just that extra handful of runs to defend.
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