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Seeing the batting performance of South Africa, it is very regrettable how a strong team can play against the Netherlands like this. No one expected South Africa to perform so badly against the Netherlands at the Dharamshala Stadium. The score of 89/5 left the South African fans heartbroken, no one expected to see such a bad performance in today's match. No one would have predicted such good batting and bowling in the Netherlands today, quite the opposite. I predicted today's match maybe South Africa will win by a huge margin against the Netherlands but looks like it's going to be totally negative. South Africa still have a long way to go to meet the target, they may not be able to meet the target given by the Netherlands in the match. Just like Afghanistan's match against England earlier, today's match between Netherlands and South Africa seems to be leaning in the same direction.

[jasonjm]

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SA are 99/5 in 22 overs. One more wicket and the tail starts. The Netherlands are bowling very well. They have the golden opportunity to beat the most informed team of this World Cup.
I think the Netherlands will beat SA in today's match. At the moment, the Win probability of the Netherlands is approximately 90%. If they get David Miller's wicket, they will seal their victory. Fingers crossed.

[HONDACD125]

In the first innings of today's match, Netherlands batted and collected 245 runs while South Africa did not give much of a target of runs. But when South Africa came out to bat in the second innings, the way they started batting was truly ridiculous. No one imagined that South Africa would play so poorly with a normal team like the Netherlands sitting at the 10th position in the points table. South Africa where they beat a team like England by a huge margin and against a team like Sri Lanka put up a huge score of 428 runs to win by a huge margin, which is the highest score in ICC 2023. Such a strong team is unable to cope with a normal team like Netherlands today, losing wicket after wicket and batting performance has not improved yet. If South Africa continue to play like this, we can say for sure that they will lose against the Netherlands. There are still many overs to go if the batsmen can make a good partnership then the match is winnable, and if wickets fall they can definitely lose. South Africans still need to collect 184 runs from 170 balls to win against Netherlands, if they play the game it is possible. And in today's match, the South African team is in the worst form where they batted in frustration. And could it be that South Africa took the Netherlands too lightly today which is why they are in this situation today.

I think cricket is a game in which sometimes the good team loses to the weak team,and there have been many such occasions in the past . So sometimes even the best team has a bad day. South Africa are one of the best teams in the World Cup, and their performances in their last two matches have been excellent.

The match is not over yet and both David Miller and Klaasen are the best batsmen at the crease. Who can be expected to give a winning performance in any match. However, South Africa may lose this match. Today may not be a good day for South Africa, but the batsmen of any team cannot be blamed for a single misdeed. Just as Afghanistan gave a historic defeat to England yesterday, other weak teams are also capable of defeating a strong team.

[JunaidAzizi]

Seeing the batting performance of South Africa, it is very regrettable how a strong team can play against the Netherlands like this. No one expected South Africa to perform so badly against the Netherlands at the Dharamshala Stadium. The score of 89/5 left the South African fans heartbroken, no one expected to see such a bad performance in today's match. No one would have predicted such good batting and bowling in the Netherlands today, quite the opposite. I predicted today's match maybe South Africa will win by a huge margin against the Netherlands but looks like it's going to be totally negative. South Africa still have a long way to go to meet the target, they may not be able to meet the target given by the Netherlands in the match. Just like Afghanistan's match against England earlier, today's match between Netherlands and South Africa seems to be leaning in the same direction.

I don't know what happened to the teams in this tournament, or why they are not performing well. The Indian team won again and again, the Pakistani team showed weak performance, and just look to the England team they lost the easy match from Afghanistan, The team who are very weak defeated the stronger one. Now South Africa they showing the worst beating. they are going with the 21 over with the runs of 107 and lost 5 wickets. However, they need 139 runs on 117 balls. It is quite easy for them but the problem is their batsman was out and now they were in the middle order and the bowlers left which I don't think so chase that many runs if they have bowlers like Naseem Shah who can make sixes at the last then may be they have the chance of winning the match.

[hafiztalha]

Netherlands is doing really well. From the current situation of the game, it can be said that South Africa is performing very badly. South Africa's first five batting very well. But already South Africa lost 4 wickets with 44 runs in 11 overs. This is indeed good news for the Netherlands. Netherlands can really win this match. According to the predictor, the Netherlands is 66% and South Africa is 34%. In the face of this situation, South Africa has to play without losing a wicket. Although now it is understood that mistrust like England vs Afghanistan can win. Good luck to the Netherlands today.

I also really impressed from the struggle of Netherlands team in today match. They almost at the edge of winning this match from South Africa who defeat strong teams Australia in previous match. Before seeing today performance of Netherlands, I believed that they will not comeback in this tournament but today they proved that they do anything. At this moment, South Africa team need 65 runs in 28 balls and they have only one wickets if this wicket dismissed then match will also ended. Current Batsman K.Maharaj and L.Ngidi are batting in the field. There chance for winning this game is nearly zero. Only David Miller performed well in South Africa side he scored 43 runs in 52 balls and he hitted four 4s and one 6s.

[2Pizza410000BTC]

Congratulations to the Netherlands. Today I would never have predicted for the Netherlands that the Netherlands would win against South Africa. This victory of the Netherlands really seems to me an unimaginable victory. Batting first, the Netherlands fell into a very difficult moment as their runs remained very low at the start. In the last minute, Netherlands batted well and managed to score 245 runs in total. When I saw like 100 runs, I predicted the condition of Netherlands, today maybe Netherlands can score 150 to 170 runs at most. But in the last minute, Netherlands batted very well and took their team to 245 runs. Meanwhile, South Africa came out to bat and they started losing wickets from the start and the team came under a lot of pressure. If it is not possible for South Africa to overcome the pressure, Netherlands won today's match unimaginably by beating South Africa by 38 runs. Everyone thought today's match would be a one-sided match. But no today's match was very exciting.

[JunkieMiner]

Congratulations to the Netherlands. Today I would never have predicted for the Netherlands that the Netherlands would win against South Africa. This victory of the Netherlands really seems to me an unimaginable victory. Batting first, the Netherlands fell into a very difficult moment as their runs remained very low at the start. In the last minute, Netherlands batted well and managed to score 245 runs in total. When I saw like 100 runs, I predicted the condition of Netherlands, today maybe Netherlands can score 150 to 170 runs at most. But in the last minute, Netherlands batted very well and took their team to 245 runs. Meanwhile, South Africa came out to bat and they started losing wickets from the start and the team came under a lot of pressure. If it is not possible for South Africa to overcome the pressure, Netherlands won today's match unimaginably by beating South Africa by 38 runs. Everyone thought today's match would be a one-sided match. But no today's match was very exciting.

As in the previous match that was also won by the Netherlands when they played I think two years ago. The Netherlands played good cricketing shots as they passed to achieve success and won their 3rd match against South Africa before that South Africa didn't lose any of the matches but today they lost their first match in the World Cup. Focusing on the upcoming matches South Africa has to face more stronger Team in the upcoming matches where we can see more drama ahead. Hope they could make their bowling better.

[Mahdirakib]

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It was completely unexpected. South Africa had also lost against Netherlands in the T20 world cup of last year. However, South Africa has made a flying start in this ODI world cup by scoring 400+ runs in the first match. No one expected South Africa to loss against Netherlands. The lower order batsman of Netherlands deserves the credit.

[TakeItEasy]

A big upset for the Team of South Africa we have seen today, although they have some great batsmen and also the best bowlers we can say as Kagiso Rabada who have taken 2 wickets today with following Lungi Ngidi which has also taken 2 wickets. But in batting, they failed to reach the given target of 246. Only David Millers Scored high runs in their all-team of 43 runs in 52 balls which consists of 1 six and 4 fours. Except for him all of them failed to score more runs, and thus they were lost.

The Netherlands played well Scott Edwards scored 78 out of 69 balls which helped the Netherlands to reach the Better target of 246 runs in 43 overs. In the bowling, they also bowled too well today. They learned something from the previous matches which they have already lost to Pakistan and New Zealand. They are now back on the road and are good enough to give tough times to other teams and we will have some upcoming upsets in the other matches. All of them provided their best to the Netherlands Team.

[GbitG]

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SA are 99/5 in 22 overs. One more wicket and the tail starts. The Netherlands are bowling very well. They have the golden opportunity to beat the most informed team of this World Cup.
I think the Netherlands will beat SA in today's match. At the moment, the Win probability of the Netherlands is approximately 90%. If they get David Miller's wicket, they will seal their victory. Fingers crossed.

Upset has been done  by one of their previous nightmares Netherlands, I can't believe they can beat one of dangerous looking side of the world cup, no doubt they have done a lot of mistakes and bad deliveries during bowling, but they can fulfil such gap by quality batting, but unfortunately they can't, none of their top class batter scored a significant run at such important stage to set a momentum which will later Carrey on by rest of batter. At start of South Africa inning I taught it will be an easy chase when they lose their opening batter and then again rapidly collapse that the point I change my mind that it will be a defeat for South Africa and Netherlands does.

[Jateng]

Netherlands 3rd win in World Cup history and Only team to beat SA in this World cup. Netherlands beat South africa in both T20 and ODI world cup. In T20 World Cup 2022 Netherlands upset South Africa by 13 runs to eliminate them, Now World Cup 2023 South Africa lose to Netherlands once again by 38 runs to end their winning streak. Two years in a row, Netherlands have beaten South Africa in Men World Cups. A remarkable achievement from the lowest ranked team in the competition against one of the favourites and one that will go down as one of the most memorable results in World Cup history. South Africa just cannot go past the Dutch. Netherlands today, First Win in World Cup after 16 years and First time win vs A Test playing nation. Netherlands created history in Dharamshala.

[romero121]

Netherlands 3rd win in World Cup history and Only team to beat SA in this World cup. Netherlands beat South africa in both T20 and ODI world cup. In T20 World Cup 2022 Netherlands upset South Africa by 13 runs to eliminate them, Now World Cup 2023 South Africa lose to Netherlands once again by 38 runs to end their winning streak. Two years in a row, Netherlands have beaten South Africa in Men World Cups. A remarkable achievement from the lowest ranked team in the competition against one of the favourites and one that will go down as one of the most memorable results in World Cup history. South Africa just cannot go past the Dutch. Netherlands today, First Win in World Cup after 16 years and First time win vs A Test playing nation. Netherlands created history in Dharamshala.

Second surprise of the World Cup 2023. The winning credit goes to the entire team, particularly the contribution from the Captain Scott Edwards is big and a much needed one when wickets continue to fall on the other side. His 78 runs out of 69 balls, Van der Merwe scoring 29 runs out of 19 balls and Aryan Dutt scoring 23 out of 9 balls everything made the score reach 243 which is really good in 43 overs from a team like Netherlands. In most of the major events South Africa used to start good, and in between it starts to collapse. Netherlands winning against them could mentally down them and they need to come strong at the earliest as the next match is against England.

[Iranus]

Netherlands 3rd win in World Cup history and Only team to beat SA in this World cup. Netherlands beat South africa in both T20 and ODI world cup. In T20 World Cup 2022 Netherlands upset South Africa by 13 runs to eliminate them, Now World Cup 2023 South Africa lose to Netherlands once again by 38 runs to end their winning streak. Two years in a row, Netherlands have beaten South Africa in Men World Cups. A remarkable achievement from the lowest ranked team in the competition against one of the favourites and one that will go down as one of the most memorable results in World Cup history. South Africa just cannot go past the Dutch. Netherlands today, First Win in World Cup after 16 years and First time win vs A Test playing nation. Netherlands created history in Dharamshala.

Second surprise of the World Cup 2023. The winning credit goes to the entire team, particularly the contribution from the Captain Scott Edwards is big and a much needed one when wickets continue to fall on the other side. His 78 runs out of 69 balls, Van der Merwe scoring 29 runs out of 19 balls and Aryan Dutt scoring 23 out of 9 balls everything made the score reach 243 which is really good in 43 overs from a team like Netherlands. In most of the major events South Africa used to start good, and in between it starts to collapse. Netherlands winning against them could mentally down them and they need to come strong at the earliest as the next match is against England.

It was unimaginable that the Netherlands would give a target of 246 runs in 43 overs. Because the team lost their first 4 batsmen for just 50 runs. However, they batted brilliantly. They took advantage of South Africa's poor bowling very well. In 43 overs, South Africa gave 32 extra runs, while the Netherlands' bowlers gave only 8 extra runs. South Africa bowled like fools. Also, despite batting responsibly in the first two matches, the South African batsmen lost the truck in this match. The middle-order players failed to bat responsibly after the top order collapsed quickly. All in all, the Netherlands performed well. And they deserve to win this match.

[Sithara007]

Netherlands 3rd win in World Cup history and Only team to beat SA in this World cup. Netherlands beat South africa in both T20 and ODI world cup. In T20 World Cup 2022 Netherlands upset South Africa by 13 runs to eliminate them, Now World Cup 2023 South Africa lose to Netherlands once again by 38 runs to end their winning streak. Two years in a row, Netherlands have beaten South Africa in Men World Cups. A remarkable achievement from the lowest ranked team in the competition against one of the favourites and one that will go down as one of the most memorable results in World Cup history. South Africa just cannot go past the Dutch. Netherlands today, First Win in World Cup after 16 years and First time win vs A Test playing nation. Netherlands created history in Dharamshala.

Well.. they are the only team to defeat South Africa, because this is the first defeat for the Proteas. And no one expected South Africa to go down against the Netherlands, after their huge wins against Sri Lanka and Australia. Let's not forget the fact that they made a massive score of 428 against the Lankans and then thrashed Australia by 134 runs. I am not sure whether Netherlands will get any more wins in this tournament. Another win or two will be good for them, because once the world cup is over they are not going to get any chances to play against the full members.

[kro55]

New Zealand vs Afghanistan

Afghanistan will play against New Zealand today. In the previous match, the Afghanistan team surprised everyone and defeated the mighty England team. Will they be able to surprise again in today's match?

Both Afghanistan's batsmen and bowlers performed well against England. Especially their bowlers bowled very controlled. And Chennai's pitch in today's match is also spin-friendly. So Afghanistan have a chance to do well in today's match if they play responsibly. New Zealand is a strong team. So Afghanistan's batsmen will have to do well in today's match if they want to defeat New Zealand. The match looks to be a competitive one.

[ThemePen]

New Zealand vs Afghanistan
Afghanistan will play against New Zealand today. In the previous match, the Afghanistan team surprised everyone and defeated the mighty England team. Will they be able to surprise again in today's match?

May be they will play like the last match but there is New Zealand and I think New Zealand is better than England. So New Zealand land will play decently and will win today match.
But this is cricket match so anything can happen at anytime. So we will bind our expectations to any team. But I hope that New Zealand will win today match. Let's see what will happen.?

[Sithara007]

May be they will play like the last match but there is New Zealand and I think New Zealand is better than England. So New Zealand land will play decently and will win today match.
But this is cricket match so anything can happen at anytime. So we will bind our expectations to any team. But I hope that New Zealand will win today match. Let's see what will happen.?

New Zealand looks like the most balanced team in the world cup now, even without Kane Williamson. They are not overly dependent on any one batsmen, as Conway, Ravindra, Mitchell and Young have all made runs in the first three matches. And on the bowling front, their pacers have been in good form, especially Matt Henry and Trent Boult. And also, let's not forget the fact that Mitchell Santner is the top wicket taker in the tournament so far. And he has received good support from part-time spinners such as Rachin Ravindra and Glenn Phillips. 

[noormcs5]

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Wow, can't believe that strong South Africa is taken down by the young Netherlands team.  They won this match by a good margin of 38 runs and I would call it a comfortable win. At any moment of the game, it does not look like South Africa were anywhere in a position to win this match.

It never looked in the match that South Africa is a weak team. See the innings of Scott Edwards where he made 78 runs in only 69 balls and it was a treat to watch. We saw previously Afghanistan upsetting England and now Netherlands doing the same. This will make further matches more interesting.

[JSRAW]

May be they will play like the last match but there is New Zealand and I think New Zealand is better than England. So New Zealand land will play decently and will win today match.
But this is cricket match so anything can happen at anytime. So we will bind our expectations to any team. But I hope that New Zealand will win today match. Let's see what will happen.?

New Zealand looks like the most balanced team in the world cup now, even without Kane Williamson. They are not overly dependent on any one batsmen, as Conway, Ravindra, Mitchell and Young have all made runs in the first three matches. And on the bowling front, their pacers have been in good form, especially Matt Henry and Trent Boult. And also, let's not forget the fact that Mitchell Santner is the top wicket taker in the tournament so far. And he has received good support from part-time spinners such as Rachin Ravindra and Glenn Phillips.  

New Zealand is in hot form but if it's a typical Chepuk wicket that offers spin then the Afghans will give a tough fight to the Kiwis, you can always bank on spin trio Rashid-Mujeeb-Nabi on the turner.

But in case, they are using square wickets similar to NZ vs BAN then it should be relatively easy for the Kiwis as square wickets won't offer much spin (it didn't in NZ vs BAN).

[Sithara007]

New Zealand is in hot form but if it's a typical Chepuk wicket that offers spin then the Afghans will give a tough fight to the Kiwis, you can always bank on spin trio Rashid-Mujeeb-Nabi on the turner.

But in case, they are using square wickets similar to NZ vs BAN then it should be relatively easy for the Kiwis as square wickets won't offer much spin (it didn't in NZ vs BAN).

Yeah.. Afghans just destroyed England with their spin bowling. So New Zealand should be cautious. But at the same time, they won quite comfortably against Bangladesh although the latter had quality spinners in their squad (esp. Shakib Al Hasan and Mehidy Hasan Miraz). But then again, Kane Williamson had a terrific match against the Bongs and he is now out of action. Tim Southee is also injured and that is the reason why Lockie Ferguson continues to be part of the playing XI. I would say that the advantage is with New Zealand, but they should not take this match lightly.