Scotland suffered back-to-back defeats in their T20 Tri-Series as they lost out to the Netherlands by 17 runs in Glasgow.<\/b><\/p>\n
Dutch opener Michael Levitt was the standout performer, striking 90 off 57 deliveries in an imposing total of 198-7.<\/p>\n
Decent showings from Max O’Dowd (21) and captain Scott Edwards (31) helped boost the visitors’ score, despite some solid fielding from the Scots – including a fine boundary catch from George Munsey to dismiss Vikramjit Singh.<\/p>\n
In reply, the Scots started slowly before makeshift opener Mark Watt ran himself out in the third over.<\/p>\n
Munsey fell to a controversial catch at backward square-leg – with the ball appearing to bounce before it reached fielder Aryan Dutt – and when captain Richie Berrington was dismissed for just two, the Dutch were well on top.<\/p>\n
Brandon McMullen was holding Scotland’s chase together, but when he also fell to the part-time spin of Teja Nidamanuru for 51, they still needed more than 100 runs for victory.<\/p>\n
Michael Leask struck five mighty sixes to revive Scottish hopes on a surface better suited for quick scoring than Tuesday’s low-scoring loss to Nepal.<\/p>\n
He was caught at long-on by Max O’Dowd off the bowling of Roelof van der Merwe to the delight of the men in orange.<\/p>\n
With 27 needed off the final over, Dutt restricted the Scots to just 10, securing a comfortable victory.<\/p>\n
Berrington’s side face Nepal on Friday before travelling to the Netherlands for next month’s T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier. <\/p>\n
“We felt after the first innings we were in the game with the one short side,” Berrington said. <\/p>\n
“On the whole, our execution was good at times, but not for long enough throughout the game.<\/p>\n
“When Michael Leask is in the middle, you’re always in with a chance, but one of us couldn’t hang in there long enough.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been playing some good cricket and this week is great preparation for the qualifier. That’s where we want to be peaking.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland suffered back-to-back defeats in their T20 Tri-Series as they lost out to the Netherlands by 17 runs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-195913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114707536746325810","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}