Dutch make England sweat for opening win

Ryan ten Doeschate

NAGPUR, India, (Reuters) – England laboured to a  thrilling six-wicket victory completed with eight balls to spare  over the Netherlands in a Group B match to avert what would have  been the first upset of the World Cup yesterday.

The Netherlands batsmen, especially the South Africa-born  Ryan ten Doeschate (119), thrived on England’s shoddy bowling  and sloppy fielding to power the team to 292-6, a target that  seemed quite a test for their opponents’ tweaked batting order.

At least England could console themselves with the third  highest successful run chase at a World Cup after the Dutch  posted the best