🏏ICC T20I WC 2024:Match 27, Bangladesh vs Netherlands, @8pm IST🏏 - Page 3

According to weather reports, the temperature of Kingston City on Thursday will be 31° Celcius during the day and 27° at night. The sky will be partly cloudy. The chances of rain are 11% in the day and 14% at night.2 hours ago

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Played 2 | Won 1 | Lost 1 | Points 2. That's the status of the two teams that'll lock horns against each other today. Hello everyone and a warm welcome to this Group D encounter from Kingstown. It's Bangladesh vs Netherlands. Both of them came so close to beating the Proteas. But South Africa emerged victorious on both occasions and have already sealed a Super Eight spot. And that makes this a very crucial match. While this is not a knockout encounter, the winner today will be in a more comfortable situation to progress to the next round. The Arnos Vale Ground is hosting its first international match since 2014 and it'll be interesting to see how the pitch behaves. With both the sides having played their previous match at New York, they'll hope for a better batting surface. Netherlands notched up an impressive win against Bangladesh in the 2023 ODI World Cup but this is a different format and the latter have a 3-1 head-to-head record against the Dutch in T20Is. Promises to be a cracking encounter. Stick around for toss and team updates...

9:30pm: The idea of a defensive T20 team has a few features and theories. Being primarily bowling-focused, batters aiming for par scores, that the margin between them and stronger teams reduces when the conditions offer assistance to bowlers. All of them seem to apply for a fixture like today's - Bangladesh have three world-class pacers (Taskin, the Fizz, Tanzim), a new leggie with bundles of promise (Rishad)

The idea of a defensive T20 team has a few features and theories. Being primarily bowling-focused, batters aiming for par scores, that the margin between them and stronger teams reduces when the conditions offer assistance to bowlers. All of them seem to apply for a fixture like today's - Bangladesh have three world-class pacers (Taskin, the Fizz, Tanzim), a new leggie with bundles of promise (Rishad)

The weather is good in Kingstown and is expected to stay that way for the duration of the game. The team batting first will have to work out the nature of the pitch on the job. It is likely to give the team bowling first an advantage. Both teams need to win their remaining games to sail through to the Super Eights without depending on other results.

Pitch report by Shaun Pollock: We'll get some good carry. It's hard, bit of grass covering. Suggests balls will carry through. I'd bowl first if I won the toss because there isn't much info or games in the recent past. It is likely to be a better pitch than some of the previous ones in the comp.

The Netherlands team is synonymous with cohesion. You want to know how a team is better than the sum of its parts? Watch Netherlands. They make scores seem bigger than they are. They cling to the smallest of chances and yank away the false sense of security, which they almost did against South Africa yet again but couldn't in New York. They beat Nepal while playing in front of what was essentially an away crowd.

Pitch Report | Alan Wilkins and Shaun Pollock:There's a strong wind - 17 km/hr, that'll be a factor for captains and bowlers. Dimensions - 67m (hitting into the end) and 61m square boundaries, 76m straight down the ground. We are going to get some good carry. The pitch is very nice and hard. There's a decent grass covering and a bit of greenness to the gras as well. The ball is going to carry through. It's going to be a better surface. The ball is going to come on more than what we've seen in this tournament.

 There's a strong wind - 17 km/hr, that'll be a factor for captains and bowlers. Dimensions - 67m (hitting into the end) and 61m square boundaries, 76m straight down the ground. We are going to get some good carry. The pitch is very nice and hard. There's a decent grass covering and a bit of greenness to the gras as well. The ball is going to carry through. It's going to be a better surface. The ball is going to come on more than what we've seen in this tournament.