Topklasse 2016
VRA Amsterdam v HCC Den Haag (5 May)
- Hidde Overdijk from the City End
- Ruben van der Berg plays an on drive
- Adeel Raja hits out
- Mark Jonkman bowling full out
- Raja plays fine to leg
- A fine drive by Van der Berg
- Raja lofts a drive
- Ali Ahmed bowling for HCC
- Van der Berg reverse sweeps
- Joost van Kessel looking for turn
- Eric Szwarszynski drives square
- Ashwin Oppu turns to leg
- Werner Coetsee spinning from Mulder's End
- Ollie Klaus going for line and length
- Oppu edges through slip
- Coetze traps Oppu in front
- Keeper Kupéri tries a backhand but Gunning is well in
- Peter Borren is hit on his bruised hand
- Borren opens the blade for a tricky shot
- Gunning goes over the top
- A powerful sweep by Borren
- Driven square by Gunning
- Borren scores a straight boundary
- Fifty for Peter Borren
- A reverse sweep by Borren
- Another nice sweep shot by Borren
- Gunning plays past square leg
- Borren aborts a charge
- Mitch Rees hits to cow corner...
- ...but a brilliant save by Van Kessel denies him a boundary
- Leon Turmaine slips and is stumped by Kupéri
- Sadiq Mahmood hits high over gully
- Elegantly clipped to leg by Borren
- Borren mistimes a drive...
- ...and Overdijk can just hold on to the catch
- Quirijn Gunning coming in to bowl
- Tom de Grooth works the ball to leg
- Newcomer Sadiq Mahmood bowling for VRA
- A good shout, but not given
- Tonnie Staal plays a bad pull shot...
- ...but Mulder's fine catch is not recognised by the umpires
- A blistering drive by De Grooth
- De Grooth edges high over keeper Rees ...
- ...just out of reach for Peter Borren
- De Grooth gets a pull high on his bat...
- ...and Gunning takes an easy catch
- Jeroen Mulder bowling from his Grandfather´s End
- Vandiar hits a straight six
- Tonnie Staal lofts a big drive to deep mid on...
- ...and Ruben van der Berg is in a forgiving mood
- Vandiar plays a circular backhand sweep
- Staal digs out a yorker
- Vandiar hammers the ball from the backfoot
- Tonnie Staal goes to cow corner
- Adeel Raja spinning away
- Vandiar mistimes his shot...
- ...and Eric Szwarczynxki takes the catch
- Hidde Overdijk cuts square
- Staal charges again...
- ...but this time Van der Berg makes no mistake
- Werner Coetsee hits a straight boundary
- Overdijk edges to the slip area...
- ...where Peter Borren patrols
- Coetsee lives on the edge
- Borren gets Bart Kupéri lbw
- Mark Jonkman attacks
- Joost van Kessel points at a rising one
- Van Kessel makes it in time
- A classic shot by Van Kessel
- Jonkman is bowled by Borren with only twelve runs to go
- Van Kessel scrambles the winning runs and that's a good start for the promotionists!