World Cup 2023, ENG vs NED: Stokes involves the get together as England retains Champions Trophy qualification hopes alive

Ben Stokes is not any stranger to the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, having hit his maiden Indian Premier League century on the similar venue in 2017.

Despite having had a quiet match thus far, Stokes lastly got here to the get together to arrange England’s win over Netherlands in its penultimate Men’s World Cup fixture.

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Stokes’ strokeful century and his 129-run partnership with Chris Woakes for the seventh wicket ensured Dawid Malan’s good work on the high didn’t go in useless.

Once England ran away with it within the final 10 overs to pile on 339 for 9, its highest tally of the match, Netherlands crumbled within the chase.

The 160-run win – solely the second win for the defending champion – meant England remained within the race to complete within the high eight and qualify for the 2025 Champions Trophy.

Had it not been for Stokes and Woakes’ pyrotechnics, England might have been staring down the barrel within the European Derby.

Stokes took guard within the twenty first over after Joe Root’s tried reverse-nothing shot resulted within the ball squeezing between his pads and crashing into the stumps. At 133 for 2, and Malan racing in the direction of his second century, England was in management.

But Malan was concerned in a useless run out quickly after and Netherlands choked the run-flow to place an underwhelming England middle-order in misery. Netherlands picked 5 for 59 within the 15-over passage to depart England reeling at 192 for six within the thirty sixth over.

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Stokes held one finish collectively and located an ally in Woakes. Even when Woakes was taking part in freely, Stokes most well-liked to be restrained. Only within the forty third over did the left-hander open his shoulders as much as dispatch Bas de Leede over the midwicket fence to lift his fifty.

That over opened the floodgates as England added a whopping 110 runs within the final eight overs. Off-spinner Aryan Dutt – who was the decide of the Dutch bowlers but once more with figures of 9-0-43-2 – was taken to the cleaners in his final over.

On both facet of a contentious leg-before DRS assessment getting into Stokes’ favour, the left-hander tonked three sixes and a 4 off Dutt within the forty fifth over that went for twenty-four runs. He introduced up his hundred by reverse-sweeping pacer Paul van Meekeren within the forty eighth over.

Woakes went after de Leede within the subsequent over to convey up his fifty and take the goal nicely out of Netherlands’ attain.

The England bowling unit ensured the batting group’s effort didn’t go waste because it picked wickets at common intervals to wind up the Dutch innings within the thirty eighth over.