England on Wednesday registered a clean sweep over the Netherlands to register an 8-wicket win over the hosts to clinch the ODI series 3-0. All three matches were expected to be one-sided and England displayed batting prowess in each of them. The series opener saw the Three Lions set the world record for the highest team total of 498, with three batsmen scoring centuries. The final game at Amstelveen attracted attention after a double-bounce delivery for a huge six by stand-in captain Jos Buttler.
event 29. happened inth When a delivery from Paul van Meeckeren reached him after taking two bounces, the other landed off the pitch from the leg side. Butler chases the ball and hits it to the leg side and clears the fence, Interestingly, he scored the maximum number of runs in that over.
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Butler 31. Completed the chase of 245 runs inscheduled tribe Over himself and came back with an unbeaten 86 off 64 balls. He finished the 3-match series with teammate Phil Salt as the joint highest run-scorer and also won the Player of the Series award.
8-wicket win propels England to top of ICC Cricket World Cup Super League standings with 125 points. Before the start of the series, England were third on the table with 95 points, but their flawless victory meant they had leapfrogged Afghanistan and for the Bangladesh summit.
The England openers once again got off to a strong start. Roy hit a continuous boundary off Van Beek in the second over. It got even worse for the Dutch bowler as Phil Salt executed the move and hit him for four boundaries in the same over.
Power-hitting by Roy and Jos Buttler. Buttler hit five fours in four overs. At the other end, Roy completed his second half-century of the series.
Butler slowed down by the time he reached his forties, but Roy took charge of the scoring after that, knocking the bowlers down with ease. Buttler reached his fifty in 46 balls and then hit three sixes and a four in an over off Paul van Meeckeren.
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