Netherlands bagged the final ICC World Cup slot in July and are decided to take advantage of the chance on the sport’s showpiece occasion.
Though the Netherlands cricket board is but to call their squad for the occasion starting subsequent month in India, 12 gamers — principally spinners and batters – arrived in Bengaluru on Tuesday to finetune their abilities.
“The camps right here shall be a chance for the World Cup squad to come back collectively and prepare in Indian situations. We can even be coaching and placing the ultimate touches to a preparation which has been very professionally pushed by each gamers and coaches,” head coach Ryan Prepare dinner, who’s overseeing the week-long camp, instructed TOI.
Requested if the Dutch would avail the providers of any native teaching assets for the camp, a Dutch cricket board official mentioned, “No. Ryan Prepare dinner, Ryan van Niekerk (assistant coach) and Heino Kuhn (assistant coach) are all from South Africa, so we didn’t want reinforcements.”
Of the gamers in attendance, eight have earned their nationwide caps and have been a part of the Netherlands squad which performed the qualifier in Zimbabwe in July. The road-up consists of skipper Scott Edwards, a wicketkeeper-bat, the seasoned Wesley Barresi, a 39-year-old batter and off-spinner, who got here out of one-and-a-half 12 months retirement in 2022 and openers Maxwell O’Dowd and Vikramjit Singh.
The Dutch gamers will return dwelling on September 6, a day earlier than the staff is introduced. They’ll arrange base once more on the Alur facility from September 19-28.
“Now we have three apply matches scheduled towards Karnataka groups. It should assist us carry position readability and cohesiveness because the World Cup will get nearer,” identified Prepare dinner, who was additionally the fielding coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad this season.
Gamers on the camp:
Maxwell O’Dowd, Scott Edwards, Vikramjit Singh, Aryan Dutt, Teja Nidamanuru, Wesley Barresi, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Clayton’s Floyd, Daniel Doram, Noah Croes, Arnav Jain, Philippe Boissevain.
