Accidents pressure Netherlands to make adjustments in T20 World Cup squad

The Dutchmen have added Kyle Klein, who was the lone travelling reserve, together with Saqib Zulfiqar to the squad as their replacements.

Klaasen skilled a recurrence of signs from a beforehand sustained stress fracture in his decrease again, whereas Doran was dominated out attributable to a damaged hand.

The Netherlands are making ready for the upcoming T20 World Cup with a tri-series in opposition to Scotland and Eire.

They’ve to date convincingly defeated Scotland however narrowly misplaced to Eire by one run in an in depth end. Doran performed in each matches, taking 2 for 35 and a couple of for 27 respectively, whereas Klaassen has not featured in any respect.

The 27-year-old Zulfiqar has to date performed six T20Is alongside 15 ODIs, securing 9 wickets at an economic system price of 6.46.

In the meantime, the 22-year-old Klein has participated in only one T20I and two ODIs up to now. His T20I debut was in opposition to Nepal earlier this 12 months, the place he bowled one over with out taking a wicket and conceded 5 runs.

Klaassen (Kent) and Bas de Leede (Durham) have been the Dutch gamers permitted by their English counties to overlook the Vitality T20 Blast and have been launched for the T20 World Cup. In distinction, the skilled pair of Colin Ackermann (Durham) and Roelof van der Merwe (Somerset) needed to stay with their counties.

Scott Edwards will proceed to captain the aspect, as he did on the 2022 T20 World Cup.

Netherlands are positioned in Group D of the T20 World Cup, which begins on June 1, alongside Bangladesh, Nepal, South Africa and Sri Lanka, and begin with a sport in opposition to Nepal on June 4 in Dallas.

Netherlands squad for the T20 World Cup
Aryan Dutt, Bas de Leede, Kyle Klein, Logan van Beek, Max O’Dowd, Michael Levitt, Paul van Meekeren, Scott Edwards (c/wk), Saqib Zulfiqar, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Teja Nidamanuru, Tim Pringle, Vikramjit Singh, Vivian Kingma, Wesley Barresi