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Pakistan will play their first match of the ODI World Cup 2023 against the Netherlands at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Pakistan lost their last two warm-up games to New Zealand and Australia at this same venue (Hyderabad) and they weren't able to qualify for the finals of Asia Cup 2023.
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Hence this match will be crucial for the Pakistan team to regain their confidence while the Netherlands team on the other hand would look to perform to the best of their potential and challenge Babar Azam's men.
Here, in this article, we will have a look at some of the important stats and numbers before the start of this game.
2 - The Netherlands have won only 2 games in ODI World Cup history out of the 20 matches they played so far.
The Netherlands won those two games against Namibia in the 2003 WC and against Scotland in the 2007 WC.
The Netherlands have lost all six ODI WC games that were played on Indian soil in 1996 & 2011.
6 - Pakistan have a record of 6-0 against the Netherlands in ODIs.
Pakistan vs Netherlands in ODIs:
Pakistan won by 8 wickets in Lahore, 1996 WC
Pakistan won by 9 wickets in Colombo(SSC), 2002 CT
Pakistan won by 97 runs in Paarl, 2003 WC
Pakistan won by 16 runs in Rotterdam, 2022
Pakistan won by 7 wickets in Rotterdam, 2022
Pakistan won by 9 runs in Rotterdam, 2022
Pakistan won a three-match ODI series against the Netherlands by a 3-0 margin which happened on August 2022.
12 - Babar Azam will become the 12th player to captain Pakistan in the ODI World Cup.
Players to captain Pakistan in men's ODI World Cup:
Asif Iqbal (1975, 1979)
Majid Khan (1975)
Imran Khan (1983, 1987, 1992)
Javed Miandad (1992)
Wasim Akram (1996, 1999)
Aamer Sohail (1996)
Waqar Younis (2003)
Inzamam-ul-Haq (2007)
Shahid Afridi (2011)
Misbah-ul-Haq (2015)
Sarfaraz Ahmed (2019)
21 - Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad will be the 21st Indian venue to host an ODI World Cup game.
A total of seven ODIs have been played in that venue previously from 2005-2023.
24 - Imam-ul-Haq needs 24 more runs to become the second-fastest to complete 3000 runs in ODIs.
Fastest to complete 3000 runs in ODIs (by innings batted):
Hashim Amla - 57
Shai Hope - 67
Fakhar Zaman - 67
Imam-ul-Haq has scored 2976 runs in ODIs from 65 innings.
67.71 - Pakistan skipper Babar Azam averages 67.71 in the ODI World Cup. He has smashed 474 runs from 8 innings in the World Cup at a strike rate of 87.77.
Babar Azam scores in 2019 ODI World Cup:
22(33) vs WI in Nottingham
63(66) vs ENG in Nottingham
30(28) vs AUS in Taunton
48(57) vs IND in Manchester
69(80) vs SA in Lord's
101*(127) vs NZ in Birmingham
45(51) vs AFG in Leeds
96(98) vs BAN in Lord's
2013 - Pakistan will be playing an ODI match on Indian soil for the first time after January 2013. The last time Pakistan played an ODI on Indian soil was against India in 2013.
Pakistan have played only two ODI World Cup games in the past on Indian soil (vs India at Bengaluru in 1996 & vs India at Mohali in 2011).
