Scottish cricket team against the Netherlands in the UAE in 2015–16

Scottish cricket team against the Netherlands in the UAE in 2015–16

	Scotland	Netherlands
Date	5 February 2016
Captains	Preston Mommsen	Peter Borren
Twenty20 International series
Results	Scotland won the 1-match series 1–0

The Scottish cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates to play the Netherlands in February 2016. The tour consisted of a Twenty20 International (T20I) match.^[1] The match was in preparation for the World Twenty20 in India in March^[1]^[2] and was played at the ICC Academy Ground in Dubai.^[3] Scotland won the one-off match by 37 runs.

Squads

Scotland	Netherlands
Preston Mommsen (c) Richie Berrington Kyle Coetzer Matthew Cross (wk) Josh Davey Alasdair Evans Con de Lange Michael Leask Matt Machan Calum MacLeod George Munsey Safyaan Sharif Robert Taylor Bradley Wheal Mark Watt	Peter Borren (c) Rahil Ahmed Ahsan Malik Wesley Barresi Mudassar Bukhari Ben Cooper Quirijn Gunning Vivian Kingma Stephan Myburgh Max O'Dowd Michael Rippon Pieter Seelaar Roelof van der Merwe Paul van Meekeren Sikander Zulfiqar

T20I series

Only T20I

5 February 2016
Scorecard

Scotland 140/5 (20 overs)	v	Netherlands 103 (18.2 overs)
Matt Machan 43 (41) Michael Swart 1/14 (2 overs)		Ben Cooper 32 (33) Mark Watt 5/27 (4 overs)

Scotland won by 37 runs
ICC Academy Ground, Dubai
Umpires: C. K. Nandan (Ind) and Sarika Prasad (Sin)
Player of the match: Mark Watt (Sco)

Scotland won the toss and elected to bat.
Vivian Kingma (Ned) made his T20I debut.
Mark Watt (Sco) took his first five-wicket haul in T20I matches.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Scotland gain extra T20 preparation in UAE". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 January 2016.
^ "Scotland to play three matches in Dubai before World T20". BBC Sport. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
^ "Scotland to play three T20s in Dubai". Cricket Scotland. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
^ "Watt five-for bundles Netherlands out for 103". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 5 February 2016.