🏏 Cricket World Cup 2023: Match #19: Sri Lanka vs Netherlands 🏏 - Page 3

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Nederlands won the toss and elected to Bat first.

Netherlands have won the toss and have opted to bat

Scott Edwards: We are going to have a bat first. The pitch looks pretty good, hopefully put a score on and look to defend it. We played reasonably well the other night, still have some improvements to make. Every team that is here would be saying the same thing, you have to probably win 5 games and that's what we are here to do. We have got some quality spinners and quicks as well, we just come into the game, make some plans and go from there. No changes.

Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis(w/c), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dushan Hemantha, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Dilshan Madushanka

Netherlands (Playing XI): Vikramjit Singh, Max ODowd, Colin Ackermann, Bas de Leede, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Teja Nidamanuru, Scott Edwards(w/c), Logan van Beek, Roelof van der Merwe, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren

Teams:

Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Pathum Nissanka, Kusal Perera, Kusal Mendis(w/c), Sadeera Samarawickrama, Charith Asalanka, Dhananjaya de Silva, Dushan Hemantha, Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Kasun Rajitha, Dilshan Madushanka

Netherlands (Playing XI): Vikramjit Singh, Max ODowd, Colin Ackermann, Bas de Leede, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Teja Nidamanuru, Scott Edwards(w/c), Logan van Beek, Roelof van der Merwe, Aryan Dutt, Paul van Meekeren

Kusal Mendis: We have three injuries. We have to do well in both batting and bowling, hope we do well in today's game. We have positive things in the previous matches, we have batted really well. And the bowling unit has to bowl in partnerships. I am enjoying my own game, enjoying the captaincy.

Starts with 10 pts.

Netherlands have won the toss and have opted to bat

There seems to be some grass on the pitch, with the surface in Lucknow being a red-soil one. Sanjay Manjrekar thinks it could help the seamers, with the pitch getting better to bat in the second innings.

Scott Edwards: We are going to have a bat first. The pitch looks pretty good, hopefully put a score on and look to defend it. We played reasonably well the other night, still have some improvements to make. Every team that is here would be saying the same thing, you have to probably win 5 games and that's what we are here to do. We have got some quality spinners and quicks as well, we just come into the game, make some plans and go from there. No changes.