All rounder Ben Stokes once again proved he can be a match winner in Englands 160 win over Netherlands in their world cup match at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune on Wednesday
Stokes had a positive approach from the beginning to make a well complied century to take the man of the match award “I’mpleased for us to get a victory over the line, it’s been a tough World Cup and it’s nice to get back to winning ways said Ben after the match ..
“. Whenever pressure feels like it’s building or if it is, I just look up and you realise you’ve got more time than you think.”added Stokes .
England captain Jos Buttler said “We were desperate for a win. We got off to a great start, had a bit of a speed bump in the middle. “We needed someone to stand up and take charge. There was some very smart cricket between Stokes and Woakes to get us to that score.
When Daily News asked about their last game against Pakistan Buttler said “The Pakistan game is huge. At the end of a disappointing tournament we finish with a game that means a lot.” We had bad patch with five consecutive defeats but now we really focused on Champions trophy qualification.With this win we are able to move to7 th place with four points and wanted to win next game and we have good confidence after this victory added Buttler .
Meanwhile Netherlands captain Scott Edwards said “We didn’t start well, our bowlers did well to drag it back but they took it away from us and got just above par. Same old story with the bat.
“We’ve been good in patches, we just need to do it for longer. England are a quality side and they took it away from us.”added Edwards
Theja Nidamanuru the Netherlands all rounder who was the highest scorer having 41 runs in this England game said we got lot of exposure during this world cup and we were very committed to go forward with more determination.
we won a match against top side South Africa and shown our potential while very close to winning against Sri Lanka.Dutch team lack experience but the way we are playing this tournament is satisfied.Win or lose our players got good experience especially playing against top cricket playing Nations said Theja the Indian origin player now performing in Netherlands.
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