RSA vs NL 15th Match Prediction

RSA vs NL Team Previews

South Africa

The South African team led by Temba Bavuma has made a brilliant start to their campaign for the World Cup. Their players defied all the odds to beat the Aussies by a big margin of 134 runs in their last encounter. All their key batters and bowlers are in good nick. The team will be looking forward to making the best use of this chance to win another game and reach the top position in the points table. In their last game, we saw Quinton de Kock scoring a superb hundred and together with Bavuma he will look to provide a confident start in this game as well.

The South African middle order has been working well for their side and the South African management will look to get good partnerships from players such as Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, and Rassie van der Dussen. David Miller who bats in the lower middle order adds a lot of firepower to this line-up together with Marco Jansen. Marco Jansen and Lungi Ngidi bowled well against the Australians. This pair will be keen to get some early breakthroughs for the Proteas. The pace and variety offered by Kagiso Rabada can trouble the Netherlands players in the middle overs.

The conditions on offer here will be encouraging for the bowlers such as Tabraiz Shamsi and Keshav Maharaj. They will play a significant role to play in the middle overs. South Africans have succeeded in putting together scores of over 300 runs in the last 5 of their one-day games. They crossed the 400-run mark on a couple of occasions. They hammered 428 runs against Sri Lanka. Quinton de Kock has made a great start to the competition with back-to-back hundreds. He will be eying another big one against this opposition.

Aiden Markram is a remarkably consistent batter for South Africa. He has scored more than a fifty in his last 5 one-day international matches. He reached 3 figures twice out of these 5 half centuries. He is once again off to a great start in this World Cup. The English bowler Reece Topley ran through the Bangladesh batting order at this stadium picking up 4 wickets last Tuesday. South Africans have a similar bowler in the form of Marco Jansen. This tall left-arm swing bowler is likely to trouble the Dutch batters on this track.  

Netherlands

The Dutch side is being led by Scott Edwards in the World Cup 2023. They have had the misfortune of losing their first couple of games and these two were big defeats. They lost their first match of the competition against New Zealand and will have to make a good comeback. They are facing a powerful batting order in this game and the Dutch bowlers will need to be disciplined to win this game and earn their first points. Max O'Dowd and Vikramjit Singh will be looking to provide a steady flow of runs for the team to do well in this contest.

Colin Ackermann did a good job in his last match and will be looking to utilize his experience for building partnerships in their middle order with Teja Nidamanuru. The Netherlands lower middle order will be manned by the likes of Sybrand Engelbrecht, Roel van der Merwe, and the skipper Scott Edwards. The Dutch bowling attack has looked ordinary in their last couple of efforts in the World Cup. The Netherlands will be looking for a better showing with the new ball from the likes of Ryan Klein and Aryan Dutt.

Some other bowlers who are expected to perform well are Ackermann and Bas de Leede in their supporting roles. The Netherlands appear to be huge underdogs going into this game considering the form of their cricketers at the moment. Although they lost their first two games, they managed to score over 200 runs in both these innings. But they have conceded over 600 runs from their bowlers. One of their key bowlers Logan van Beek had to miss the last game against New Zealand on Monday due to a hamstring injury.

Van Beek is a crucial part of the Netherlands' bowling attack and at Dharmsala ground the Dutch new ball bowling attack will need his services. His batting efforts are also going to be crucial for his team. He was the leading run-getter for his team in their last 3 official one-day games. All-in-all it is tough to imagine these bowling resources causing too much trouble to their South African counterparts.