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Dhaka, Mar 24 : Hello and a warm welcome to second game of the double-header. There are few impact players on both the sides, although you would give the favourites tag to the Islanders for their experience in the shortest format. It will be interesting to see the team combinations of both the sides. However, the toss will be delayed as the first game between South Africa and New Zealand went down to the wire.

Alright! They stormed their way into the main tournament with a sensational run chase against Ireland and stunned the cricketing fraternity. What do the Netherlands have in store for us today? Life is not going to be all that easy though for them tonight as they are up against the 2012 finalists, Sri Lanka.

Pitch Report: 'The wickets looks to be a little bit on the slower side. When we take a look at the outfield, there's not much of dew around. The side winning the toss and bowling first will have an advantage I guess,' reckons Nick Knight.

Sri Lanka have won the toss and have opted to field

Borren: 'We would have fielded as well, probably that's been the trend in this tournament. Now we will look to put the runs on the board and do well with the ball. Not much of dew around now, hopefully it doesn't come in largely later on. We are fielding the same side as well.'

Chandimal: 'We will bowl first. The decision is due to the dew factor, it's not too much at the moment but it could come in later on. We are playing the same XI.'

Teams:
Sri Lanka (Playing XI): Kushal Janith Perera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara(w), Angelo Mathews, Dinesh Chandimal(c), Thisara Perera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Sachithra Senanayake, Ajantha Mendis, Lasith Malinga

Netherlands (Playing XI): Peter Borren(c), Stephan Myburgh, Wesley Barresi(w), Logan van Beek, Tom Cooper, Ben Cooper, Michael Swart, Mudassar Bukhari, Timm van der Gugten, Pieter Seelaar, Ahsan Malik

Match Preview

It is a typical David v Goliath contest brewing up at Chittagong. Having pulled the rug out of Ireland with a devastating display of batting, Netherlands will go into the match against pre-tournament favourites Sri Lanka with nothing to lose. The island nation themselves will be a confident bunch, after having scraped pat South Africa in their opening league encounter.
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's dominant batting display against South Africa was a credit to their youngsters in the batting line-up. While the seniors failed to fire, the young turks took it upon themselves to help Sri Lanka reach a competitive score. Kusal Perera took the wheels back to the older times, showing plenty of skills and class, reminiscent of Sanath Jayasuriya in many ways. Angelo Mathews is another pivot in the middle order while the senior brigade have the experience and quality in them to provide direction to the team

In the bowling department, Lasith Malinga continues to prosper in the shortest form of the game. His package of pace, yorkers and cleverly disguised slower ones have fooled even the best of batsmen at time. Nuwan Kulasekara was expensive to begin with against South Africa, but delivered when it mattered the most, his 19th over was perhaps the turning point of the match. Rangana Herath was surprisingly omitted in favour of mystery spinner, Ajantha Mendis in the first game, and he might as well make a comeback into the playing XI.
Netherlands

Entry into the main round of the tournament seemed highly unlikely at one stage for the plucky Dutchmen. With nothing to lose, they threw their bats around in spectacular fashion to leave Ireland stunned and Zimbabwe shocked. Against the big boys in the main draw, the European nation has nothing to lose again and this might make them a dangerous floater. Stephen Myburgh has been a revelation, his clean hitting at the top of the order resulted in wins against UAE and Ireland. Their Australian import, Tom Cooper has held the middle order well while the rest of the batsmen have chipped in with handy runs.

If there is any weakness in this team it is the lack of wicket taking bowlers. Timm van der Gugten has shown plenty of potential while Ahsan Malik has done well in the death overs. Logan van Beek has been expensive, and might struggle to retain his place.
Keys to win

The no-holds barred attitude of the top-order batsmen, if it comes good, then the team can either post a big score and chase down totals with ease.
Stats

The leading run-scorer of the tournament with 151 runs so far, Tom Cooper is clearly proving why Netherlands got him into the side as a last minute replacement for Tom Gruitjers.
Quotes:

We are very proud to represent the Associates here and we hope to do the other countries proud: Netherlands captain, Peter Borren knows what it is to make the main draw of the tournament.

We never underestimate any ream, we will play our best eleven and look to win: Sri Lankan captain, Dinesh Chandimal is not under-estimating the associate nation.