IND vs NED, World Cup: Preview, Pitch Report, Head-to-Head, Weather Report

India will face the Netherlands in their final ICC World Cup 2023 round-robin match on Sunday, November 12. The clash will be staged at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, commencing at 2:00 PM IST. The Indian cricket team is on a rampant run of form, emerging triumphant in each of their eight fixtures so far. Their previous match saw them get the better of South Africa by 243 runs. Batting first, the two-time champions posted a mammoth total of 326/5 courtesy of a record-equalling 49th ODI ton by Virat Kohli and a Shreyas Iyer half-century.

Thereafter, an all-round bowling performance, led by Ravindra Jadeja's five-for, decimated the Proteas, who were bundled out for a mere 83 runs on the board.

Meanwhile, the Netherlands have won two and lost six of their eight matches so far. They went down against England in their penultimate ICC World Cup 2023 match by 160 runs.

Put in to bowl first, the Dutchmen were taken to the cleaners by Ben Stokes, who smashed an 84-ball 108. Dawid Malan and Chris Woakes scored their respective fifties to propel the defending champions to 339/9.

Chasing the total, Netherlands were bowled out for 179 runs, with middle-order batter Teja Nidamanuru top-scoring with an unbeaten 41.

While India will look to prepare for the semis with a win, the Dutchmen will aim to finish the tournament on a high and register their third win in the ongoing competition.

IND vs NED pitch report

The average score in the first innings in the last 10 matches at this stadium is 310.

Bowling first is recommended at this stadium, with the team batting second winning 60 per cent of its matches.

In the four ICC World Cup 2023 fixtures played at the venue, teams batting first and the sides chasing the total have won and lost two matches apiece. The 300-run mark has been breached thrice, with the highest total being 401/6, posted by New Zealand.

Pace or spin?

Pace is the way to go at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru as the fast bowlers have registered the majority of the wickets so far. 

However, spinners can chip in with crucial breakthroughs as the game progresses. Australia's leg-break bowler Adam Zampa managed to bag a four-wicket haul in the second innings against Pakistan at the same venue earlier in the competition.

IND vs NED weather report

The temperature at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is predicted to be 27 degrees Celsius and 57 per cent humidity.

IND vs NED Fantasy 11 Prediction: Top captain and vice-captain picks

Virat Kohli: India batter Virat Kohli has been in sensational form, scoring 543 runs in eight matches at an average of 108.60. He has scored four half-centuries and two tons and achieved the highest score of unbeaten 103 against Bangladesh.

Sybrand Engelbrecht: Netherlands' Sybrand Engelbrecht has been a consistent source of runs, amassing 255 runs in seven innings and is his team's leading run-getter this campaign. He averages 36.43. The right-handed batter has two fifties to his name in the ICC World Cup 2023.

Mohammad Shami: The Indian bowler is in breathtaking touch, taking 16 wickets in four matches. Mohammad Shami's best spell for this edition is 5/18 and his average stands at 7.00.

Bas de Leede: The Dutch all-rounder has taken 14 wickets in eight matches so far at an economy of 7.10. Bas de Leede's 4/62 versus Pakistan is his finest bowling performance in the ICC World Cup 2023. With the bat, he has piled up 127 runs with the help of one half-century.

IND vs NED Fantasy team

Wicket-keepers: Scott Edwards

Batters: Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Sybrand Engelbrecht, Shubman Gill

All-rounders: Ravindra Jadeja, Logan van Beek, Bas de Leede

Bowlers: Mohammad Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna

Captain: Virat Kohli

Vice-captain: Mohammad Shami

India vs Netherlands head-to-head record in ODIs

India and Netherlands have competed against each other on two occasions in ODIs, with the former winning each time out.

Interestingly, both matches were a part of the ICC Cricket World Cup. The first match-up took place in 2003 whereas the second encounter was a part of the 2011 edition.

India vs Netherlands prediction

Given India's terrific run of form and their head-to-head record against the Netherlands, India are expected to win the upcoming contest and enter the semis high on confidence.

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Rauf Most Expensive Bowler In Single Edition Of World Cup. He Conceded...

Pakistani pacer Haris Rauf registered an unwanted record against England in the 44th match of the ODI World Cup 2023 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Saturday, the 'Men in Green' speedster conceded the most runs in a single edition of the extravagant tournament. In the 2023 edition of the ODI World Cup in India, Rauf gifted 533 runs after taking part in nine innings at the ongoing tournament. Earlier, the unwanted record was held by the English spinner Adil Rashid, who gave away 526 runs in the 2019 World Cup.

In the ongoing ODI World Cup, Rauf scalped 16 wickets and picked just one maiden over. His best performance at the ODI World Cup 2023 was 3/43.

Against England in Kolkata, the 30-year-old pacer bagged three wickets but gifted 64 runs to the English batsmen. He kept an economy rate of 6.40 on Saturday.

Coming to match, Ben Stokes continued his stellar form and scored 84 runs from 76 balls. He smashed 11 fours and 2 sixes. Meanwhile, Joe Root also played a 60-run knock from 72 balls. English opener Jonny Bairstow started the inning well after he played a 59-run knock from 61 balls.

The Pakistani pacers failed to make a mark in the game after they were unable to early wickets. Mohammad Wasim Jr has been costly for the 'Men in Green' after he gave away 74 runs in the game. However, Wasim Jr picked up two wickets. Meanwhile, Shaheen Afridi bagged two wickets in the first inning and gifted 72 runs.

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"Keen To Lead...": Did Babar Just Reveal His Pakistan Captaincy Future?

Pakistan captain Babar Azam didn't hide his disappointment after a humiliating 93-run defeat to England in their last World Cup game in Kolkata on Saturday but hinted that he would like to lead the national team during its rebuilding phase in white-ball cricket. "We will sit together and take stock. We'll take positives from this and discuss mistakes. I'm keen to lead the rebuild," Babar said at the post-match presentation ceremony.

Pakistan couldn't qualify for the semi-finals of the 50-over World Cup for the third consecutive time. "Yes, very disappointed with the performance. If we had won the South Africa match, it could have been a different story. But yes, have made mistakes in bowling, batting and fielding," Babar summed up his team's campaign where they lost five out of nine games.

Babar admitted that his spinners - Mohammed Nawaz and Shadab Khan - not taking wickets in middle overs became crucial.

"We conceded a few too many runs. We bowled a few loose deliveries towards the end. And our spinners' aren't taking wickets, which doesn't help. That has a big effect because you need to take wickets in the middle overs."

 Babar Azam is a young man on a steep learning curve and someone, who needs to be hand held in this tumultuous journey called international cricket, feels Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur after his team failed to qualify for the World Cup semi-finals.

Pakistan's No 1 batter Babar failed to score even a single century in the global showpiece and his captaincy came under the radar with team losing five of its nine league games, playing brand of cricket which former skipper Ramiz Raja termed "very 80s".

"We were a real tight knit unit. I get behind Babar. Babar is very, very close to me. He's a young guy that needs to be taken on the journey with. He needs to be shown the ropes," Arthur said after Pakistan ended their campaign with a 93-run defeat, their fifth in nine matches.

The criticism primarily centred around his lack of aggression and his decision-making abilities on the field as many former Pakistan cricketers suggested that his captaincy is weighing on him.

"He's still learning all the time. We know he's a very, very fine batsman. He learns every day with his captaincy. He's growing and we have to allow him the time to grow. And in order to do that, you (have to allow him to) make mistakes," Arthur said.

"It's not a crime to make mistakes as long as you learn from those mistakes and as a group, we've made a lot of mistakes this World Cup but if this group grows and learns from it, we've got the core of a very, very good side," he said.

He further stressed on the need to shut the outside noise and look forward with focus on creating a stable environment.

"There's always outside noise, whatever World Cup you are at there's outside noise. The key for us as leaders within that group is to make sure that we make the players deaf to that outside noise.

"As I say, for us as a group and us as a team, particularly for us as leaders, we've got to create a stable environment," he said.

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"Am Sewak, Not In Race For Chief Minister": Jyotiraditya Scindia To NDTV

Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said he is not in any race to become the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh. In an exclusive interview to NDTV, the Civil Aviation Minister said the question of him running for Chief Minister does not arise as he has always been a party worker and will remain so.

"The Congress has people vying for power, they have groups, they scheme to become Chief Minister, and before elections Congress has some eight leaders claiming to be Chief Minister. BJP is a party of workers. We are all karyakartas, and will remain so," Mr Scindia told NDTV inside his campaign vehicle.

"The entire BJP in Madhya Pradesh is fighting the election under Prime Minister's leadership... I am not in this race (for Chief Minister's post). I am a sewak. I am not in the race at all," he told NDTV.

The BJP leader on November 2 had said something similar about not including the Scindia family in the race for the chair. "Never include the Scindia family in the race for the chair (referring to the Chief Minister's post). The Scindia family works day and night with a passion for development, progress and public service," he had said.

The Union Minister hit back at his former party, Congress, over alleged corruption and punched holes in the INDIA Opposition bloc, which has been trying to gain support of Other Backward Classes (OBC) voters.

"What's the OBC factor? Congress thinks the people can't see through them? There are 27 OBC ministers in Modi ji's cabinet," Mr Scindia said. "The Congress's G (guarantee) is not only 2G, they have the capability to do 5G," he added, referring to the scam in allotting 2G spectrum under the UPA.

"I welcome whatever abuses the Congress gives me. I have no grudge against the Congress. Whatever abuses the Congress may say to me, they even abused my family. The person who gave his life for the Congress, my respected father, He was martyred while going to the Congress rally. They did not have the courage when I was in the Congress or he was in the Congress. Are you reading a new history? Are you reading the history of the British?" Mr Scindia said.

He added he was sure the BJP would form a full-majority government in the state.

Madhya Pradesh will vote in a single phase on November 17; counting is on December 3.

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Kerala Court Jails Man, 63, For 109 Years For Raping Girl He Adopted

A court in Kerala on Friday sentenced a 63-year-old man to 109 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping a minor girl whom he had adopted a few years ago.

A fast-track special court in Adoor in this southern district of the state awarded the punishment to Thomas Samuel, a native of Kurampala in Pandalam.

The court also imposed a penalty of Rs 6.25 lakh on the convict.

Judge A Sameer ordered that if the fine is not paid, Samuel would have to undergo an additional imprisonment of three years and two months.

The court also ordered that the fine amount be handed over to the victim, a 12-year-old girl hailing from neighbouring Tamil Nadu, a police statement said here.

The convict will have to serve a total of 20 years in prison as his sentence will run concurrently, police said.

According to the police, some years ago the girl was staying on the veranda of a local shop here with her two siblings and paternal grandmother after their parents abandoned them.

On learning about their plight, the child welfare panel took steps to ensure their safety.

Based on that, three local families adopted the three children, promising them a safe and secure life. The victim was adopted by Samuel and his wife who had no children.

However, after the girl reached their home, the man allegedly started misbehaving with her and subjected her to cruel sexual assault and torture after threatening her during a period of one year between March 2021 and May 2022, police further said.

He later requested the child welfare panel take back custody of the girl, citing the ill health of his wife, who met with an accident.

The incident of cruel torture and rape came to light after the girl was adopted by another family, to whom she revealed the trauma that she underwent.

Based on their complaint, Pandalam police registered a case and carried out a comprehensive investigation, it said.

The court awarded rigorous punishment under relevant sections of the IPC and POCSO Act, the statement added. 

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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At Ethics Panel Meet With Mahua Moitra, No Personal Questions, Says Report

The Parliamentary Ethics Committee questioning of Mahua Moitra -- which the Trinamool MP had claimed involved "extremely personal and derogatory questions" -- was an attempt to ascertain facts that were flagged in submissions by the Union home ministry and the IT ministry, sources have said. Ms Moitra had walked out of the November 2 meeting with some Opposition members of the committee, refusing to answer the questions of committee chairman Vinod Sonkar.

Ms Moitra had indicated that the questions pertained to her relationship with industrialist Darshan Hiranandani, who has been accused of giving bribes in exchange for parliament questions to perpetuate his business interests.

Sources said the report underscored that the questions asked were based on submissions made by various departments on the alleged unethical conduct of Ms Moitra. The crux of the login-sharing lay in the discrepancy between Ms Moitra's visits to Dubai and the huge number of times her login was accessed from there.

According to the committee report, Mahua Moitra's account was operated 47 times from United Arab Emirates between July 2019 and April 2023. But between 2019 and September 2023, she had visited UAE only four times. Her Parliament id had 47 logins from Dubai, all from one IP address.

So during the meeting on November 2, Mr Sonkar had asked Ms Moitra how many times she met Mr Hiranandani while in Dubai, sources said. Ms Moitra became upset with the question and refused to respond. She was also given the option of not answering questions.

In course of the meeting, she also accused the chairman of asking questions that she alleged were given by Supreme Court lawyer Jai Anant Dehadrai, whom she had described once as a "jilted ex".

She maintained that she would answer questions that are only related to the charges against her and that she had already told the panel she was using Mr Hiranandani's office for secretarial assistance.

Sources also told NDTV the report noted a problematic intervention by BSP MP Danish Ali who was the first to use the term "cheer haran" (referring to the attempted disrobing of Draupadi by the Kauravs in Mahabharata).

His remark came immediately after the first few questions asked by Mr Sonkar.

JDU MP Giridhari Yadav also asked for the questions to be stopped as "it was getting late and that another meeting could be called for this".

Ms Moitra, however, said she would not come for more sittings, sources said. Then she had walked out of the meeting and five MPs had accompanied her.

Even before the questioning, Ms Moitra admitted to sharing her parliamentary login, but claimed there is no regulation governing this. Ahead of her hearing with the Ethics Committee, she had also written to them, questioning why these rules "are not shared with MPs".

In an explosive affidavit, Mr Hiranandani, who allegedly paid her to ask questions in parliament on his behalf to target Prime Minister Narendra Modi and business rival Adani Group, has admitted to login sharing.

The committee today formally adopted the report that recommended her expulsion after 6-4 voting.

Its report had said Ms Moitra's actions were "highly objectionable, unethical, heinous and criminal". Citing a host of reasons why parliamentary login sharing could be a threat to national security, the committee also asked the government to launch a probe into the money trail, sources said. The report had pointed out that 50 of the 61 questions asked by Ms Moitra coincided with Mr Hiranandani's interests, sources said.

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What The Scientists Revealed At Mexican Congress During Second UFO Session

Days after Mexico Congress stunned the world with their display of two alleged Peruvian 'alien corpses', a second Congressional hearing was held on Tuesday. Researchers testified before Mexico's Congress and declared that the previously displayed three-fingered Peruvian mummies were authentic. However, they did not confirm that the remains were aliens, as per Reuters.

In September, the ''non-human'' alien corpses, claimed to be the 1,000-year-old fossilised remains of extraterrestrial individuals, were presented in windowed boxes, by journalist and ufologist Jaime Maussan.

New Findings about the Peruvian Mummies

• On Tuesday, Mr. Maussan returned to Congress to emphasise the genuine nature of the bodies. During the session, Mr. Maussan was backed by a group of medical experts who said that the mummies were once-living organisms. 
• The alien enthusiast and his group of researchers showed photographs and X-rays of what he said was a ''non-human being.'' Mr Maussan said the bodies belonged to a ''new species,'' as they lacked lungs and ribs.
• Anthropologist Roger Zuniga of San Luis Gonzaga National University in Ica, Peru, supported the findings, and said "They're real". ''There was absolutely no human intervention in the physical and biological formation of these beings,'' he told Reuters.
• Mr Zuniga presented a letter signed by 11 researchers from the university declaring the same. The letter made clear, however, they were not implying the bodies were "extraterrestrial".

Meanwhile, Congressman Sergio Gutierrez, from President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's ruling Morena party, called for a reform to Mexico's law to make all information about UFOs public.

What happened during the first UFO session?

Two tiny mummified bodies were presented to Mexico's Congress on September 13, images of which were beamed around the world, sparking excitement and curiosity. The mysterious bodies were tiny in stature and chalky in colour, and each one of them had three-fingered hands and shrunken heads. One was described as female, with eggs inside. 

Mr Maussan claimed they were found around 2017 in Peru, near the pre-Columbian Nazca Lines. He added that they were about 1,000 years old, and analyzed through a carbon dating process by Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM).

Later, Mexican doctors conducted extensive laboratory studies on the two alleged "non-human" alien corpses and found "no evidence of any assembly or manipulation of the skulls". The doctors said that the so-called bodies belonged to a single skeleton. 

Multiple UFO and forensics experts slammed the claims as ''unsubstantiated'' and a ''hoax''. Some academics and archaeologists suggested the "bodies" are simply the ancient remains of mummified humans.

 

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