Scottish cricket team in the Netherlands in 2021

The Scotland cricket team toured the Netherlands in May 2021 to play two One Day International (ODI) matches in Rotterdam.^[1][2] Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Netherlands last played an ODI match in June 2019,^[3] and Scotland's last ODI match was in December 2019.^[4] Originally, the second ODI was scheduled to be played on 21 May, but the fixture was brought forward by one day after bad weather was forecast.^[5]

Scottish cricket team in the Netherlands in 2021
	Netherlands	Scotland
Dates	19 – 20 May 2021
Captains	Pieter Seelaar	Kyle Coetzer
One Day International series
Results	2-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Max O'Dowd (90)	George Munsey (106)
Most wickets	Vivian Kingma (5)	Alasdair Evans (6)

The Netherlands won the first ODI by 14 runs.^[6] Scotland won the second ODI by 6 wickets, to draw the series 1–1.^[7]

Squads

ODIs
Netherlands[8]	Scotland[9]
Pieter Seelaar (c) Philippe Boissevain Ben Cooper Bas de Leede Julian de Mey Aryan Dutt Scott Edwards Vivian Kingma Stephan Myburgh Max O'Dowd Vikramjit Singh Antonius Staal Logan van Beek Paul van Meekeren Tobias Visee Saqib Zulfiqar	Kyle Coetzer (c) Richie Berrington (vc) Dylan Budge Matthew Cross (wk) Alasdair Evans Michael Leask Calum MacLeod Gavin Main George Munsey Adrian Neill Safyaan Sharif Hamza Tahir Craig Wallace Mark Watt

ODI series

1st ODI

19 May 2021 11:00 Scorecard

Netherlands  163/8 (33 overs)	v	Scotland 149/8 (33 overs)
Max O'Dowd 82 (102) Gavin Main 2/16 (7 overs)		Richie Berrington 41 (43) Vivian Kingma 3/21 (7 overs)

Netherlands won by 14 runs Hazelaarweg Stadion, Rotterdam Umpires: Rizwan Akram (Ned) and Nitin Bathi (Ned)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
• The match was reduced to 33 overs per side due to rain.
• Aryan Dutt and Logan van Beek (Ned) both made their ODI debuts.
• Mark Watt took his 100th wicket in international cricket for Scotland.^[10]

2nd ODI

20 May 2021 11:00 Scorecard

Netherlands  171 (48.4 overs)	v	Scotland 172/4 (42.1 overs)
Scott Edwards 56 (67) Alasdair Evans 5/43 (9.4 overs)		George Munsey 79* (100) Vivian Kingma 2/23 (8 overs)

Scotland won by 6 wickets Hazelaarweg Stadion, Rotterdam Umpires: Nitin Bathi (Ned) and Adriaan van den Dries (Ned)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
• Philippe Boissevain (Ned) made his ODI debut.
• Alasdair Evans (Sco) took his first five-wicket haul in ODIs.^[11]

References

1. "Dutch unveil ambitious 2021 international cricket programme". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
2. "Scotland Men To Face The Netherlands In Two ODIs". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
3. "Scotland to play two ODIs against Netherlands in May, announce 13 central contracts". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
4. "Scotland Men To Face The Netherlands In Two One Day Internationals". Cricket World. Retrieved 20 April 2021.
5. "Second ODI brought forward". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
6. "O'Dowd stars in Dutch ODI return". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
7. "Evans, Munsey help Scotland draw level". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
8. "Preview: first ODI in ten years between Netherlands and Scotland (19 & 21 May)". Royal Dutch Cricket Association. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
9. "Scotland Men Name Experienced Squad to Face Netherlands". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
10. "Scotland lose to Netherlands by 14 runs as Max O'Dowd hits 82 in Rotterdam". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
11. "Scotland bounce back to square series". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo