Match Details
Jason Roy, Player of the Match: To receive my 100th was a huge honor, an absolutely incredible moment, nice to get some runs as well. A slight stutter, but we managed to get there in the end. Salt is a lovely fellow, great to bat with, and whacks it very well. English cricket is in a very wealthy state, everyone is training hard and putting the work in. Nice to get the English badge back on.
Eoin Morgan: Delighted. The Guys have played really well. Great to see someone like Carse come in and step up straightaway, bowling with a lot of pace. Salt doing what he does, alongside Roy. That was an amazing stand and there was a slight stutter, but the guys handled it well. We did bowl well, There was some slowness in the surface and some spin. Much like there was in the back end of their innings. We do bat deep, so it would have needed another 40 runs maybe just to trouble England. It's a great time for English cricket, with lots of players who've been challenged for spots in the team. I think India too has a similar big pool of players.
Scott Edwards: Plenty of positives for us today. Put up a better bowling performance today. England, well they are a class side. That opening partnership really put pressure on us. On his own knock, he added that he felt good but there was a chance to get a score of 260 or above. Yes, potentially if they could have been braver with the bat. It's the powerplay where they've gotten hold of us, need to make better plans to counter that in the future.
NIKHIL: After a long delay, finally the game started and the hosts scored 235 runs with the loss of 7 wickets. Both the openers from the Netherlands couldn’t start their innings as opener Vikramjit fell at 17 runs, On the other hand, Max O'Dowd was rotating the strike at a good pace. But in the 9th over, Max got dismissed by Rashid and in the next over itself, Tom Cooper walked back to the pavilion, as the debutant Carse got the first wicket of his career. Then the Netherlands from 36 for 3 in 10 overs. Got to a respectable score of 235 as Bas de Leede and skipper Scott Edwards controlled their innings extremely well and formed a 61-run partnership stand in the end. After that, Scott along with Teja established a 73-run crucial partnership stand in the next 10 overs. Later in the last 10 overs, the Netherlands scored 77 runs with the loss of 3 wickets. Willey and Adil Rashid picked up 2 wickets, Whereas, the debutant Carse and Liam Livingstone took 1 wicket each as well
The Run-chase started and it started in a blistering form as Roy and Salt took off from the first ball itself and in the powerplay, they managed to score 66 runs. Roy was the first one to depart as he fell on a score of 73 today in his 100th match while Salt continued his onslaught on the hosts as he went on to make 77 runs before falling to Dutt. Dutch took wickets in a cluster in the middle but the ship was stabled by Ali and Malan as they took control of the run chase back again and had a partnership of 62 runs as they managed to win this game with 6 wickets here to win the game and seal the series.