Canada and the Netherlands both have a long-standing rivalry, and they have played many matches against each other. In today's match, the Netherlands players performed very well, while Canada showed their usual poor performance and lost the match again. Neither their batsmen nor their bowlers demonstrated their abilities to stop or restrict the Netherlands from chasing the target. In the entire team, only two players scored: the captain N. Kirton and R. Singh, while the rest of the team just wasted time and balls as well.
Below, I have shared a summary of some T20 matches between the Netherlands and Canada. In these matches, Canada has only won one, while the rest have been won by the Netherlands. Canada won against the Netherlands in 2008, which was their first match, and since then, Canada has consistently lost matches against the Netherlands. Why have they not won a single match during this time, or do they not want to win against the Netherlands? What do you think?
To be honest I would not call that rivalry since they do not play each other that often because they are on two different subcontinent. Although many people might call that rivalry. But this rivalry is very one sided. The Netherlands are just too good for Canada in cricket. The Netherlands started playing cricket with good cricket playing nations way before Canada. In fact Canada does not even still get the chance to play with good teams yet. The only way they can play with the good teams is when there is an ICC event.
This fact was showcased today in their match. Canada got destroyed by the Netherlands. Canada played very poorly since the start but had a stable partnership of Nicholas Kirton and Ravinderpal Singh. They got the team to a somewhat good total. But the Netherlands chased it like it was nothing. Vikramjit Singh, whom I have praised before for a stylish and explosive style, showed us what he was good for. He scored an explosive 53 runs out of 21 balls. Michael Levitt also provided support since the beginning of their innings and he was given the Player of the match award for it. But in my opinion, Vikramjit is the player of the match