The Dutch StatsZone now has a new set of statistics, relating to all List A matches played by Dutch representative sides since they first entered this category by playing in the NatWest Trophy in 1995. It can be found here.

�List A� matches are those one-day matches which are deemed to be the equivalent of first-class matches in multi-day cricket. With the introduction of official one-day competitions from 1963 onwards, there was initially no standard for deciding which games were statistically important, and eventually the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians developed a list, known as �List A�. The full version of this was published for the first time in 2001. The category was endorsed by ICC in 2006.

Those matches included are:
 � One day internationals
� 'A' team internationals by full member countries
� Premier domestic one-day tournaments in full member countries (some countries have more than one tournament in the same season)
� Official tourist matches against the major First-Class teams of the country, including representative sides collected from players in such teams, provided they were played as competitive matches and not purely for practice
� Some other international tournaments.

Those not included are:
� Twenty20 matches
� World Cup warm-up matches, and warm-up matches played in similar multi-team tournaments (eg ICC Champions Trophy)
� Tourist matches played against teams outside the major First-Class teams of the country, or matches not played competitively (for example where substitutes were allowed to bat or bowl)
� Festival matches, exhibition matches, pre-season friendly matches, some invitation tournaments (where qualification was not based on some competitive element)
� Matches involving age group teams up to and including Under-19s.

The Dutch statistics therefore include ODIs, all matches in the 2005 and 2009 World Cup qualifying tournaments, several ICC tournaments for �emerging� countries, and games played in English domestic competitions, including the Clydesdale Bank 40 League. Also included are the four matches played by the Netherlands A side in the 2006 EurAsia Trophy.

Remarkably, there is one other match which is not regarded by the KNCB as a full international, even though it was part of the 2003 NatWest Trophy. The Dutch had to play a first round game against Bedfordshire at the end of the previous season, while the full squad was in Sri Lanka preparing for the Champions Trophy; they fielded a second string, and lost by 10 wickets. But it was a List A match according to the definition, and it must therefore be counted here.

The Netherlands are scheduled to play 16 more List A matches before the end of the current season: one-off ODIs against Scotland and Ireland, six matches (all ODIs) in the World Cricket League Division 1 tournament, a one-day match against a Zimbabwe XI � which will not be a full ODI but which will presumably have List A status � and six more games in the Clydesdale Bank 40 League.