Dubai , 28 March 2008Namibia put a stranglehold over the Netherlands after 17 wickets fell on the second day of the ICC Intercontinental Cup match at the Wanderers Cricket Ground in Windhoek , Namibia on Friday.
After Namibia squandered a golden opportunity to bat the Netherlands out of the match when it was bowled out for 337 after resuming at 322-5, the pace duo of Kola Burger and Louis Klazinga shared seven wickets to restrict the tourists to 107 in reply.
Only nine wickets fell in the innings as Pieter Seelaar was hit in the face by a Gerrie Snyman bouncer. He retired hurt and has been ruled out of further participation in the match.
26-year-old Burger, playing his 19th first-class match, recorded figures of 15-1-44-4 while 23-year-old Klazinga registered figures of 11-3-25-3. Synman claimed 2-35 to follow up his 54 on Thursday.
Forced to follow on 230 runs in arrears, the Dutch put up an improved batting performance to reach 161-3 at the close of play. Ryan ten Doeschate was batting on 47 from 71 balls with four fours and two sixes. With him was Eric Szwarczynski on 1.
Together with Bas Zuiderent (52), Doeschate put on 91 runs for the second wicket. Zuiderent’s 127-ball knock was spiced with five fours.
Sarel Burger, Craig Williams and Snyman took one wicket each as the Netherlands still require another 69 runs to make Namibia bat again.
Earlier, the Netherlands fast bowler Edgar Schiferli produced an excellent spell to restrict Namibia to 337 as the home team’s first innings on the second day lasted just seven overs during which it added 15 runs.
Schiferli, who missed last year's ICC Cricket World Cup through injury, took 4-50 to take his tally of first-class wickets to 26 from eight matches. Captain Peter Borren took 2-87 while Seelaar bagged 2-71.
Craig Williams added just one to his overnight score of 71 while Bjorn Kotze departed after scoring 17.
The ICC Intercontinental Cup has quickly grown in stature and profile since its inception three years ago and now the ICC’s premier first-class tournament is an integral part of the Associate Members’ cricket schedule.
Having previously been designed around a two-group, three-day format, the event has evolved into an eight-team, round-robin and truly global tournament featuring four-day cricket which gives those teams who do not play Test cricket the chance to experience the longer form of the game.
Scotland won the first ICC Intercontinental Cup in 2004, beating Canada in the final, while Ireland has been victorious in both events since then, beating Kenya in the 2005 decider and Canada earlier this year in the 2006-07 event.
The final of the ICC Intercontinental Cup 2007-08 will take place in November 2008 in the
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