Zimbabwean cricket team in the Netherlands in 2017

International cricket tour

Zimbabwean cricket team in the Netherlands in 2017

	Netherlands	Zimbabwe
Dates	20 – 24 June 2017
Captains	Peter Borren	Graeme Cremer
LA series
Result	Zimbabwe won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Stephan Myburgh (124)	Craig Ervine (121)
Most wickets	Shane Snater (4) Paul van Meekeren (4)	Christopher Mpofu (7)

The Zimbabwe cricket team toured the Netherlands in June 2017 to play three List A matches.^[1] Some sources stated the matches would be One Day International (ODI) fixtures.^[2]^[3] However, the Netherlands do not have ODI status,^[1] so the matches were List A status only. The fixtures followed Zimbabwe's matches in Scotland.^[1] Zimbabwe won the series 2–1.^[4]

At the end of April 2017, the Netherlands announced a 24-man training squad ahead of the tour, which included Shane Snater, who was born in Zimbabwe.^[5] He was included in the final squad for the series.^[6] In September and October 2017, the Netherlands toured Zimbabwe, also playing three List A matches.^[7]

Squads

Netherlands^[6]	Zimbabwe^[8]
Peter Borren (c) Wesley Barresi Logan van Beek Ben Cooper Timm van der Gugten Fred Klaassen Paul van Meekeren Roelof van der Merwe Stephan Myburgh Max O'Dowd Michael Rippon Shane Snater Tobias Visee Saqib Zulfiqar Sikander Zulfiqar	Graeme Cremer (c) Ryan Burl Tendai Chatara Chamu Chibhabha Craig Ervine Hamilton Masakadza Solomon Mire Peter Moor Christopher Mpofu Tarisai Musakanda Richard Ngarava Sikandar Raza Donald Tiripano Malcolm Waller Sean Williams

Fixtures

1st match

20 June 2017
Scorecard

Netherlands 142 (37.5 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 144/4 (30.2 overs)
Logan van Beek 64* (83) Tendai Chatara 5/34 (10 overs)		Craig Ervine 44 (59) Shane Snater 1/21 (6 overs)

Zimbabwe won by 6 wickets
VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen
Umpires: Rizwan Akram (Ned) and Huub Jansen (Ned)

Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
Sikander Zulfiqar (Ned) made his List A debut.

2nd match

22 June 2017
Scorecard

Netherlands 291/6 (50 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 231/4 (36 overs)
Stephan Myburgh 77 (70) Sikandar Raza 3/40 (10 overs)		Solomon Mire 82 (71) Paul van Meekeren 2/36 (8 overs)

Zimbabwe won by 6 wickets (DLS method)
VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen
Umpires: Rizwan Akram (Ned) and Huub Jansen (Ned)

Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
Rain during Zimbabwe's innings set them a revised total of 229 runs from 37 overs.

3rd match

24 June 2017
Scorecard

Netherlands 279 (49.3 overs)	v	Zimbabwe 130 (26.3 overs)
Michael Rippon 71 (79) Christopher Mpofu 4/41 (7 overs)		Malcolm Waller 50 (43) Roelof van der Merwe 3/7 (2.3 overs)

Netherlands won by 149 runs
Sportpark Westvliet, The Hague
Umpires: Rizwan Akram (Ned) and Pim van Liemt (Ned)

Zimbabwe won the toss and elected to field.
Fred Klaassen (Ned) made his List A debut.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Zimbabwe to tour Netherlands in June". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "Zimbabwe slot three ODIs in the Netherlands". Wisden India. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "Chevrons to tour the Netherlands". Herald. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
^ "Bowlers help Netherlands clinch consolation win". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 June 2017.
^ "Zim-born Snater included in Netherlands squad". The Standard. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
^ ^a ^b "Fred Klaassen in squad to face Zimbabwe". Cricket Europe. Archived from the original on 22 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
^ "Zimbabwe to face Dutch in three one-dayers". Cricket365. Retrieved 22 September 2017.
^ "Masakadza finds favour ahead of Zimbabwe's triple tour". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 26 May 2017.