After a brilliant win powered by Virat Kohli in their opening match against Pakistan, Team India is set to face the Netherlands on Thursday. Ahead of the match, Netherlands captain Scott Edwards is hoping that Kohli doesn't repeat his lethal attack against them.
The men in blue won their previous match against the Babar Azam-led team by four wickets. In the match, Kohli smashed 82 runs off 53 deliveries including six boundaries and four sixes.
Edwards, a Melbourne local who has migrated to The Netherlands, would like his teammates to play the best brand of cricket possible.
"What Virat (Kohli) did the other day was surreal. Hope he doesn't repeat it against us," Edwards said.
"Not many people expect us to win, so not too much pressure on us. Our brand of cricket means performing to the best of our ability. Just bring our A-game. If it's enough it's enough. If it's not, it's not," he added.
Edwards also expressed his feelings about playing against India.
"Huge. You always dream of playing World Cup and against arguably one of best teams in the world is surreal," said Edwards.
Not getting a chance to play big teams regularly is an issue but what is more disappointing is that ICC has stopped the ODI Super League, which provided them with a decent number of games.
"Obviously disappointing that ODI Super League not coming ahead. We had cricket on Dutch TV which was good exposure for us," Edwards said.
Squads:
India Squad: KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Axar Patel, Hardik Pandya, Dinesh Karthik, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Rishabh Pant, Deepak Hooda, Harshal Patel
Netherlands Squad: Vikramjit Singh, Max ODowd, Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Tom Cooper, Scott Edwards, Tim Pringle, Logan van Beek, Shariz Ahmad, Fred Klaassen, Paul van Meekeren, Roelof van der Merwe, Timm van der Gugten, Stephan Myburgh, Teja Nidamanuru, Brandon Glover
(Inputs from PTI)
