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Australia in England, 1964
Netherlands v Australians
De Diepput, The Hague
29 August 1964

Result: Netherlands won by 3 wickets

Toss:
Umpires: W Amons and G Stallman

Australians innings
WM Lawry c van Weelde b Trijzelaar 5
ATW Grout b Trijzelaar 20
NC O'Neil st Schoonheim b Pierhagen 87
PJ Burge c Trijzelaar b Pierhagen 22
BC Booth c Bouwman b Vriens 13
J Potter retired hurt 7
RM Cowper c & b Trijzelaar 2
TR Veivers run out 12
JW Martin lbw b Pierhagen 12
GD McKenzie not out 8
AN Connolly b Vriens 1
Extras (lb 6, nb 2) 8
Total (all out, 50.1 overs, 162 mins) 197

FoW: 1-15, 2-36, 3-91, 4-120, 5-160,
6-162, 7-186, 8-186, 9-197, 10-197.

Bowling O M R W
Trijzelaar 11 2 41 3
van Arkel 4 0 20 0
Pierhagen 21 6 75 1
Vriens 14.1 0 53 2

Netherlands innings
P Marseille lbw b Cowper 77
W van der Vegt b McKenzie 33
P van Arkel c & b Cowper 45
W van Weelde b McKenzie 8
P Bouwman c Veivers b Cowper 1
RF Onstein not out 24
EWC Vriens lbw b Cowper 3
HB Trijzelaar b McKenzie 0
H Wijkhuizen not out 2
Extra (b 4, lb 4) 8
Total (7 wickets, 57.4 overs, 158 mins) 201

DNB: +RF Schoonheim, W Pierhagen.

FoW: 1-99, 2-129, 3-152, 4-161, 5-174,
6-180, 7-181.

Bowling O M R W
McKenzie 19 4 48 3
Connolly 4 0 11 0
Veivers 6 1 13 0
Martin 10 0 46 0
O'Neil 6 2 6 0
Cowper 12.4 1 69 4

Sorry about the formatting people. RB Simpson became the first Australian captain to lose to the Netherlands; he also had the distinction of being the first Australian captain to lose a test series against South Africa 1966-67 so he did not have a great record against Dutch or Dutch descended cricketers.

Grassy wrote:

La Hincha wrote:

Grassy wrote:

ArkRoyal wrote: LH thanks, Roebuck was very popular here. He was captain of Somerset, which included Sir Ian Botham Sir Viv Richards and Joel Garner as you know, even with that side, they never quite won the county championship. Have you been following the pay dispute?

I think it's great that these second tier players are worth bugger all. We have SHANE WATSON mumbling. Players like him should NOT be on contracts. TOO many not good enoughs are being paid as promising young players get next to nothing.

Is the Afghan team made up of expats or indigenous Afghani's?

LH: do you think Zimbabwe will win that test match currently being played?

La Hincha wrote: I'm delighted to say that Jason Gillespie, the former Australian fast bowler, is taking charge of coaching the PNG national team ... at least in the short term.

PNG is a nation that is rising. Not quite as fast as Afghanistan, but then again, no nation has risen as fast as Afghanistan.

If it isn't Holland for the next test nation, then I hope it's PNG.

I love the way they play....so much talent and natural ability. A joy to watch

PNG have had some lads playing in the SA district cricket system to compete at higher standards. It would be great to see some northern Australia tie up with PNG cricket to play "out of season" in a northern Aust comp. We could use Darwin/Nth QLD a lot more to play cricket during winter.

I thought it was fantastic to see Zimbabwe fight tooth and nail against Sri Lanka earlier in the week in a match they could have won. A contentious stumping call didn't help their cause. They are improving under Heath Streak's coaching and have a decent team at the moment. Pity they don't play another test again until March though. Hard to get better playing so infrequently against the best.

LH did you watch the Windies bat last night.They done well V a good attack.

gtr: yep, much better than the last test. If they can get 150 runs in front they should really go on to win, especilly given the form of Westley, Stoneham and Malan.

Have them 3 for 10 and then a lightbulb moment occurs - bring on Lyon , not worthy of being tagged even a Spud

Then Maxwell breaks the stand - telling stuff

Just how many more games will be sacrificed for a net bowler (at absolute best description)

Southerner wrote: Have them 3 for 10 and then a lightbulb moment occurs - bring on Lyon , not worthy of being tagged even a Spud

Then Maxwell breaks the stand - telling stuff

Just how many more games will be sacrificed for a net bowler (at absolute best description)

Oops ........................... 9/150 odd in the 1st test, 11/140 odd 2nd test (so far).

256 test wickets.

Having been watching the ICC 2019 World Cup qualifying tournament in Zimbabwe I have to say the standard of cricket being played from the developing countries has been quite good.
The likes of Ireland, Scotland, Afghanistan, Netherlands, UAE etc have all continued to improve which is a good sign for the future of world cricket.
Interesting to see the West Indies are playing in this tournament to qualify for next years WC for those of us who grew up watching cricket in the late 70s & 80s you could never have imagined this would ever have been a possibility!