What more can I say? This is a red (read orange) letter day in the history of cricket. The Dutch were never meant to be meek pushovers but the valour and courage that they showed is going to be retold so many times in times to come.
Edwards:
Bavuma:
Stats courtesy Deepu Narayanan
South Africa batting totals - last six ODIs 338/6 vs Aus 416/5 vs Aus 315/9 vs Aus 428/5 vs SL 311/7 vs Aus 207/10 vs Net
Netherlands wins in ODI World Cups Beat Namibia by 64 runs, Bloemfontein, 2003 Beat Scotland by eight wkts, Basseterre, 2007 Beat South Africa by 38 runs, Dharamsala, 2023 This is the first instance of Netherlands beating a Full Member nation other than Zimbabwe and Ireland in ODIs. (They tied against West Indies in WC Qualifiers and beat them in a Super Over)
This is the first instance of South Africa losing an ODI against an Associate nation.
Scott Edwards | Player of the Match: Over the last couple of games too many of our middle order batters were being out before the end of the game, so I wanted to take it deep and hope a couple of guys around me chip in and we are lucky enough to get that score in the end. He's (Roelof van der Merwe) good fun to bat with, he runs hard and hits into some strange areas which is good fun to watch from the other end.it I just got him (Aryan Dutt) on strike and he was clearing the ropes, he's got the talent and it's all there to see tonight. Proud of the group. We came into the tournament where we wanted to have a chance in the semi finals and if you wanna do that you gotta beat teams and South Africa are one of the favourites the way they are playing, so it is a good win for us.
What could SA have done better?
23:02 Local Time, 17:32 GMT, 23:02 IST: Lightning has struck twice! SA have been shocked. Or is it the Orange fever which started off as an epidemic in Adelaide has taken the form of a pandemic at Dharamsala.
42.5
van Beek to Maharaj, out Caught by Edwards!! Maharaj c Edwards b van Beek 40(37) [4s-5 6s-1]
van Beek to Maharaj, THATS OUT!! Caught!!
42.4
van Beek to Maharaj, SIX
42.3
van Beek to Maharaj, FOUR, 200 up for the Proteas. Length delivery, takes the edge and goes over short third man for a four