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Holland 245 for 8 (Edwards 78*, Van der Merwe 29, Janssen 2-27) South Africa 207 (Miller 43, Van Beek 3-60, Van der Merwe 2-34, De Leyde 2-36, Van Meekeren 2-40), a difference of 38 points.
After falling to 50 for 4 and then slumping to 140 for 7, the Netherlands piled on 105 runs off their last nine overs through Edwards, who finished with 78 not out off 69 deliveries, Van der Merwe with 29 off 19 and Aryan Dutt with 23 off 9 to set a target of 246. Which seemed highly unlikely when the South African quartet of Kagiso Rabada, Marko Janssen, Gerald Coetzee and Lungi Ngidi went about their business.
Van der Merwe then took two wickets for three runs with his first eight balls in the South African chase, with Colin Ackerman and Paul van Meekeren also picking up early wickets to leave the pre-match overwhelming favorites reeling at 44 for 4.
Quinton de Kock tried to paddle Ackerman, only to catch keeper Edwards via the glove and then the shoulder, Temba Bavuma saw his stumps clattered by Van der Merwe’s first ball, and Van Meekeren beat the defense of Eden Markram with a shorter delivery that stayed low and Rassie Van. The der Dussen reversal saw Van der Merwe sweep straight into Dutt at the back post to put the South Africans in all sorts of trouble.
