From Blackburn via Richmond and - briefly - Highton, the Netherlands captain and his team are making the cricket world sit up and take notice. Next: Australia.
Not so long ago, the captain of the biggest giant-slayer at the World Cup was opening the batting in the Geelong competition. It was the first summer of COVID, Melbourne club cricket was shut down, but Richmond coach Shannon Young arranged some games for Scott Edwards at Highton because it was outside the metropolitan area.
He said he did not develop the Dutch connection as a back door into international cricket. It simply opened for him.drafted him into the national team as wicketkeeper. “It all happened pretty quickly,” he said.who on either side of that fixture thrashed Australia and England. There are about 6000 active cricketers in the Netherlands. Half the 10-team senior competition play on turf, half on mats laid on soccer pitches. The best players are semi-pros mostly from Australia and South Africa, but Edwards assesses the standard as roughly just below the level of Premier Cricket in Victoria.Edwards himself is one of four on a modest full-time contract with the Dutch board.
The names on the scorecard tell part of the story, of a mix of provenances, now all doubly Dutch. But Edwards said that was not all. Under new coach, South African Ryan Cook, they’ve engendered a new approach. Edwards’ unorthodox batting technique is characterised by a penchant for the sweep, even against pace. Another peculiarly personal tic is the way he often takes his bottom hand off the bat as he hits the ball without any loss of power or placement.
“Unfortunately, as much as the game has changed, people still look at technique and make their judgments,” he said.
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