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.