Crik: Dutch in the dark while World Cup team put to the sword

AAP Sports News (Australia), March, 2007

AAP Sports News (Australia) 03-18-2007 Crik: Dutch in the dark while World Cup team put to the sword AMSTERDAM, March 17 Reuters - The Netherlands became part of Cricket World Cup history 24 hours earlier but on Saturday few of their citizens knew much about it. The hapless Dutch were trounced by 221 runs by world number one team South Africa on Friday and during the match Herschelle Gibbs struck a record six sixes in an over against the Netherlands' spinner Daan van Bunge in St Kitts. Nobody had before hit a maximum 36 in a World Cup or one-day international over. "South Africa much too strong, Dutch cricketers outclassed at World Cup," read the headline of the match report in quality broadsheet NRC Handelsblad, who also carried a picture of the match...