Rod Lyall - Page 1

Retired academic, now a journalist and commentator, mainly covering Dutch international and domestic cricket.
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(Almost) as good as it gets: Dutch pick strong, varied squad for India

Insight
If there were no real surprises in the Dutch World Cup squad announced last Thursday there was one genuine disappointment: the fact that Fred Klaassen...

Realistically ambitious, the Netherlands prepare for India

Insight
There was a festive air about the Westvliet ground on Saturday, and not only because Voorburg, the home side, waltzed to their first national men’s...

Creative thinking needed to fill Associates’ ODI gap

Opinion
There is no question that the success of the Dutch men in qualifying for the 50-over World Cup – and indeed, for the T20 version...

Sri Lanka overpower the Dutch to win the Qualifier

Cricket World Cup Qualifier
After so many highs it was indeed disappointing that the Dutch campaign in Zimbabwe should end in such an unequivocal low, as the batting fell...

Bas de Leede the hero as resilient Netherlands qualify

Cricket World Cup Qualifier
There have been some extraordinary performances by Dutch men’s teams over the past fifteen years, but Thursday’s victory over Scotland, which carried Scott Edwards’s side...

Singh century and Barresi near-miss set up Dutch victory

Cricket World Cup Qualifier
You could have got very good odds indeed before the start of the Qualifier on the Netherlands still being in contention for one of the...

Battling Dutch take Sri Lanka (almost) all the way

Cricket World Cup Qualifier
You might reasonably suppose that if anyone asked an AI program to produce a report on a random match involving the Netherlands and an ICC...

Dutch achievement teaches world cricket some crucial lessons

Insight
Fourteen years ago, on the morning after the Netherlands’ historic T20 World Cup victory over England at Lord’s, I wrote, in an article entitled ‘Defiant...

Netherlands stun West Indies with record-breaking tie and Van Beek’s Super Over at Qualifier

Cricket World Cup Qualifier
Scott Edwards’ Dutch side pulled off perhaps the most extraordinary upset in the history of ODI cricket at the Takashinga Sports Club on Monday as...

Van Beek and O’Dowd power Dutch into the Super Six

Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The Netherlands achieved the first major objective of their World Cup Qualifier campaign at the Takashinga Sports Club on Saturday when they reached the Super...
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