Netherlands Cricket Association announced that the England Men’s team will be travelling to their country for a three-match ODI series as part of the ICC Men’s CWC Super League. The games will be played on 17, 19 and 22 June in 2022 and all of the matches will be held at cricket club VRA in Amstelveen. The tour was originally supposed to take place in 2020 but was postponed due to Covid-19.
To facilitate more fans to watch this historic event, the KNCB has decided to erect extra stands especially for these games, thus increasing the total capacity of visitors to 8000.
Speaking on this occasion, CEO KNCB, Milena van Not said, “It is great to be able to be host country for these games. In June we have shown in Utrecht at the CWC Super League series against Ireland, that we are able to organize such an event besides achieving excellent sports performances.”
“It is a magnificent opportunity to be able to organize such an event again next year, the difference being thousands of cricket fans from both home and abroad having the opportunity to be present this time. I can’t think of a more beautiful cricket event,” she further added.
So far, The Netherlands have played three matches in the Super League and have won two of them against Ireland. They would have a go at seven more Test-playing nations as part of them having qualified in December 2017 for this Super League, which is also the qualifying tournament for ODI World Cup 2023 to be held in India. Apart from England, the Dutch will also host Pakistan and the West Indies in 2022.