By Admin 
In the first match played today in the T20 World Cup 2026, Netherlands registered the first win of the tournament by defeating Namibia by 7 wickets. Batting first, Namibia had scored 156 runs. Netherlands achieved the target with 12 balls remaining and won by 7 wickets. With this victory, Netherlands has overtaken Pakistan and moved to second place in the points table. Bas de Leede, who was the hero of Netherlands’ victory, took 2 wickets and played an unbeaten inning of 72 runs.
Chasing 157 runs, Netherlands did not have a good start. The team got out Max O’Dowd after scoring 7 runs on the first ball of the third over. After this, Michael Levitt also followed on the score of 46, who scored 28 runs in 15 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 1 four. After this there was a partnership of 70 runs between Bas de Leede and Colin Ackerman.
Bas De Leede scored unbeaten 72 runs in 48 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 5 fours. Ackerman played an important inning of 32 runs in 28 balls. Captain Scott Edwards came in the end and played a quick inning of 18 runs to give Netherlands victory with 12 balls to spare. In this innings played in 9 balls, the captain hit 1 six and 1 four.
8 players of Netherlands bowled
In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi, Netherlands won the toss and decided to bowl first. Namibia’s innings was slow from the beginning, in the end the team also lost wickets continuously. Nicole Lofty scored the highest 42 runs for Namibia. A total of 8 players from Netherlands bowled, there was no bowler who bowled the full 4 overs of his quota.
Bas De Leede and Logan Van Beek took 2-2 wickets. Aryan Dutt and Fred Klaasen had 1 wicket each.
Netherlands reached second place in the points table
After this victory, Netherlands has reached second place in the points table of T20 World Cup 2026 Group A. Pakistan slipped to third place. India is at number one, all three have 2-2 points. On the basis of net run rate, India (+1.450) is ahead of Netherlands (+0.356) and Pakistan (+0.240).