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NewsSportsCricket World Cup 2023How the Netherlands used 'total cricket' to claim a famous World
Cup upset over South Africa
How the Netherlands used ‘total cricket’ to claim a famous World Cup upset over South Africa
Like Rinus Michels and Johan Cruyff's brand of football, Dutch cricket team has imbibed ‘total cricket’
to seize the spotlight at the World Cup.
Written by Rahul Pandey
Dharamsala | Updated: October 18, 2023 22:16 IST
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SA vs NED: Scott Edwards and the Dutch total footballNetherlands' captain Scott Edwards, right,
watches as his teammate Teja Nidamanuru leaves the ground after being dismissed during the ICC
Men's Cricket World Cup match between South Africa and Netherlands in Dharamshala, India,
Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP)
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It was under head coach Rinus Michels and with players like Johan Cruyff in the lineup that the Dutch
national football team brought to the spotlight the philosophy of total football: a tactical system
where any outfield player can take over the role of any other player in a team.

Following their big win against South Africa at the 2023 ODI World Cup, Netherlands cricket team
skipper Scott Edwards attributed ‘total cricket’ as the mantra to their success.

READ | Roelof van der Merwe leads Netherlands charge as they upset South Africa at another World
Cup
“As a group, we pride ourselves on playing total cricket: guys that are coming in at number 9 or 10 but
have just as much ability to put on partnerships. Out there batting with them was just about giving us
a chance to go harder later in the innings. Luckily, Roelof (van der Merwe) and Aryan (Dutt) played
some unbelievable cameos to get us what we thought was round about the par score,” Edwards told
reporters after their 38-run victory over the Proteas in Dharamsala.

The Dutch skipper, who was top scorer on the day with an unbeaten 78, was accompanied by van der
Merwe (29 off 19) and Dutt (23 off nine), adding 64 runs for the eighth wicket and 41 runs for the
ninth. This, after South Africa had managed to reduce them to 140/7 with nine overs left to be played
in the innings.

READ | Netherlands skipper Scott Edwards leads from front with help of his unconventional sweeping
technique
Dutch seamer Paul van Meekeren added that it was the contrasting vulnerability of the South African
lower order batting that he and his fellow bowlers looked to exploit having gotten 245 runs on the
scoreboard.

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“We felt pretty comfortable with the total. We knew we had to start well because their top six is very
comfortable and they’ve got a lot of firepower in there. We felt from 7 to 11, there’s a real weakness
there. So we spoke about if we got the opportunity to open up one end, we had to take it,” he’d tell
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“That was partly why I was batting the way that I was. I didn’t want to give anything away and just
wanted to make sure that I was being responsible and put us in position to still win the game,” Miller
said post-match.

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