England captain Andrew Strauss tosses the coin but his Dutch counterpart Peter Borren calls correctly and decides to bat first in Nagpur in their opening World Cup match
Openers Alexei Kervezee and Wesley Barresi get the associate team off to a bright start, smashing 34 off the first six overs and giving bowlers Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad plenty to think about
England make a change and Tim Bresnan does the trick with Kervezee's attempted pull shot looping into the gloves of wicketkeeper Matt Prior, the Netherlands losing their first wicket on 36
A brilliant stumping by Prior sees the end of an entertaining innings by Barresi, who is out for 29 as the Netherlands lose their second wicket on 58 in front of a sparse crowd
The Netherlands' Australian-born Tom Cooper is given the bouncer treatment from Stuart Broad but seems unfazed as the Netherlands romp along to 132-2 off 27 overs. There is a lot of England head scratching
Cooper survives when he is dropped by Kevin Pietersen but it does not prove too expensive as off the next ball he hands a simple catch to Anderson off Paul Collingwood's bowling, leaving the Netherlands on 136-3
Essex's Ryan ten Doeschate is running rings around England and eases to his ninth one-day international fifty
England have not been playing well and the body language does not look good. Swann is exasperated as Pietersen and Anderson leave a skied catch to each other and it drops to the ground
Ten Doeschate finally falls for 119 from 110 balls in the penultimate over of the innings but his team have amassed 292-6 from their 50 overs
England's abject display in the field is not a pretty sight
But Pietersen atones for his errors in the field by sharing a century opening partnership with his captain
Strauss is first to reach fifty, taking only 34 balls to record his 27th one-day international half century
However, with the score on 105 in the 18th over Pietersen is superbly caught at short extra cover having made 39 from 61 balls
Strauss is caught towards the square-leg boundary 12 short of his century but Jonathan Trott (pictured) makes a calm 62 before he is superbly stumped to leave England on 224-3, still 69 runs short of victory
Ian Bell adds 33 from 40 deliveries but he is emphatically bowled with 52 still needed
Ravi Bopara joins Paul Collingwood. The pair steadily move towards securing their target, before Bopara crushes Dutch hopes in style with 14 off four balls from Bernard Loots, to give England a hard-fought opening win
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