NED vs SL ODI World Cup 2023: Sybrand Engelbrecht-van Beek surpass Dhoni-Jadeja's ODI World Cup partnership record

On the basis of brilliant half-centuries from Sybrand Engelbrecht and Logan van Beek, Netherlands set a target of 263 runs for Sri Lanka to win in the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 match being played in Lucknow. After this, the Dutch pair broke the record for the highest seventh-wicket partnership in ODI World Cups. They also broke the record by going past the 116-run partnership made by India's MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja in the 2019 World Cup semifinal against New Zealand.

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja previously held the highest number of runs for the seventh wicket in ODI World Cup. The Indian duo added 116 runs for the seventh wicket against the Kiwis in 2019. It was broken by the Engelbrecht-van Beek duo.

After winning the toss and batting first, Netherlands had a bad start and lost 6 wickets till the total score of 91 runs. Vikramjit Singh (4) was out during the fourth over with the team score of 7 runs. He was dismissed by Kasun Rajitha. The second blow to the Dutch team came in the 10th over of the innings at the score of 48 runs. Max O'Dowd returned to the pavilion after scoring 16 runs. Netherlands had lost 2 wickets for 48 runs after 10 overs.

After this, Engelbrecht and Van Beek together took charge of the innings and made a partnership of 129 runs for the seventh wicket. Van Beek and Engelbrecht joined hands with their side tottering at 91 for the loss of six wickets. They took their time to settle in, before increasing the momentum with some big hits to record the highest seventh wicket partnership for their country in ODIs. This is also the Netherlands' fifth century partnership in the ODI World Cups.

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Meanwhile, Engelbrecht, who was the top scorer, scored 70 runs in 82 balls with the help of 4 fours and 1 six. While Van Beek scored 59 runs in 75 balls, in which he hit only 1 four and 1 six. Due to which Netherlands scored 262 runs in 49.4 overs.

Sri Lanka finally managed to break the stand by removing Engelbrecht, but not before the partnership had reached 130 runs, taking the Netherlands beyond the 200-run mark.