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Netherlands vs Pakistan Scorecard, Match 1, ICC T20 World Cup
Result · Feb 07 2026, Sat - 11:00 AM (IST)
NETHERLANDS147
PAKISTAN148/7
Pakistan won by 3 wickets
CRR:7.59
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | 20/20 World Cup |
| Date: | Feb 07 2026, Sat - 11:00 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Colombo |
| Venue: | Sinhalese Sports Club Ground |
| Toss: | Pakistan won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Pakistan Playing XI: | Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Ali Agha (c), Babar Azam, Usman Khan (wk), Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Salman Ali Mirza, Abrar Ahmed |
| Netherlands Playing XI: | Michael Levitt, Max O'Dowd, Bas de Leede, Colin Ackermann, Scott Edwards (c) (wk), Zach Lion-Cachet, Logan van Beek, Roelof van der Merwe, Aryan Dutt, Kyle Klein, Paul van Meekeren |
- This is set to be the third men’s T20I between Pakistan and Netherlands, with the previous two meetings also coming in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup; Pakistan have recorded an 82-run victory (9 June 2009 at Lord’s) and a six-wicket victory (30 October 2022 in Perth) in their two meetings.
- Netherlands have lost their last three ICC Men’s T20 World Cup matches; a fourth consecutive defeat in this game would equal their longest losing run in the history of the tournament (L4 in October 2022).
- Pakistan haven’t won their opening match in each of their last two ICC Men’s T20 World Cup campaigns (T1 L1); this is the first time they haven’t won their opening game in consecutive editions of the tournament.
- This will be the fifth time the opening match of an ICC Men’s T20 World Cup is between an ICC full member team and an associate team (Netherlands def. England by four wickets in 2009, Bangladesh def. Afghanistan by nine wickets in 2014, Zimbabwe def. Hong Kong by 14 runs in 2016 and Namibia def. Sri Lanka by 55 runs in 2022).
- Netherlands had a catch success rate of 95.2% (20/21) at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, the best of any team in the tournament and one of only two to log at least 90% in this category (Bangladesh – 90.3%, 28/31).
- Batters played a false shot on 53.6% of Pakistan’s balls bowled at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, the highest rate of any team in the tournament and one of only two to log at least 50% in this category (New Zealand – 51.9%).
- Aryan Dutt (Netherlands) bowled 97.6% of his 42 deliveries on a length at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, the highest rate of any player in the tournament (min. 3 overs bowled).
- Pakistan duo Mohammad Rizwan (30.3) and Babar Azam (30) faced more balls per innings than any other players at the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 (min. 2 innings).
- Scott Edwards (1,226) is 14 away from surpassing Ben Cooper (1,239) as the second all-time leading run scorer for the Netherlands in men’s T20I history (Max O’Dowd – 2,309).
- Fakhar Zaman (13) is one away from equaling Mohammad Hafeez (14) for the third most 50+ scores for Pakistan in men’s T20I history (Babar Azam – 42, Mohammad Rizwan – 31); he’s scored 77* (4 September 2025 vs UAE), 23* (12 September 2025 vs Oman) and 50 (17 September 2025 vs UAE) in his last three T20I innings against ICC associate teams.
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