Logo of Logan van Beek of Netherlands poses for a photo while holding the Player of the Match award after the teams victory in the Super Over of the ICC World Cup Qualifier Zimbabwe 2023 match between the West Indies and Netherlands on June 26, 2023.

Netherlands v West Indies

Logo of Logan van Beek of Netherlands poses for a photo while holding the Player of the Match award after the teams victory in the Super Over of the ICC World Cup Qualifier Zimbabwe 2023 match between the West Indies and Netherlands on June 26, 2023.

Netherlands v West Indies (Netherlands won Super Over)

Logan van Beek, Netherlands, Player of the Match (30 and 2/8 in Super Over), said: “I cannot really explain it at the moment. We wanted to do something special. To watch Scotty [Edwards] and Teja [Nidamanuru] out there, the more they batted, the more we believed.

“I have been playing for a long time. The amount of games I have lost from those situations, it was just satisfying to get across the line. I just backed my skill - if you miss, I am going to hit it. I was pretty disappointed with the last ball that I chunked it to mid-on.

“Thankful that I got a little bit of redemption. I thought I wanted to give myself a chance and when that 49th over came, I wanted to go after it. The culture that we have built and the learnings we have taken through the last 18-19 months.

“Now we have a chance to go to the World Cup in India and that is really huge.”

Netherlands captain Scott Edwards said: “I suppose it is still soaking in. I do not think I will ever play in a better game than this.

“I thought they batted sensationally. We hit 60 runs more than we have ever hit. But the belief we have in this group and the way we have been playing cricket, we knew we had to bat well and that innings from Teja there and what Logan did at the end, pretty special. It’s a well deserved.

“I think running between the wickets is probably one thing we pride ourselves on. We have worked on being super fit so that we can keep doing that.

“Logan was in a bit of a trance in the Super Over. I was just trying to keep him calm. He just had his head down and he was smacking them for sixes.

“We knew this was going to be a massive game for us. We will enjoy this game and we will be ready in a few days.”

West Indies captain Shai Hope said: “We let ourselves down there. I could not see us scoring 375 and losing the game.

“Credit to Netherlands for chasing that down. Cricket is not played in one half. We knew we had to bowl well but I always thought 375 would be enough.

“We definitely need to learn from this. We know what we have to do now. It is an unfortunate situation we have put ourselves in but it is what it is.”