India continued their dominance and well on their to quarter finals after beating Netherlands by 5 wickets at Feroz shah kotla.The low scoring contest was almost a one-sided affair.Dhoni again kept faith on UP leggie Chawla. Local guy Nehra got a chance to play in the place of Munaf.The Dutch won the toss and batted first.The Dutch openers Eric(28) and Barressi(26) gave a good start.They put together 56 runs for the opening partnership before Eric was castled by Chawla.Last match's hero,Yuvraj then took 2 wickets quickly by dismissing Barressi and Ten Doeschate.The Netherlands were 3 for 99.Then Nehera on his 1st ball of 2nd spell got the wicket of set batsman Cooper(29).Bas Juiderent was next to depart after being struck square on the pads by a reverse swinging delivery from Zaheer.Then Dutch captain Borren(38) and Mudassar Bukhari(21) made a partnership to help their side to reach close to 200 run mark.But a superb spell from Zaheer dismissed both to conclude the Dutch innings.The Netherlands were bundled out on a modest 189 in 47th over.In response,openers Sachin and Sehwag gave India a brisk start and it looked like the game would be over than expected.But Sehwag(39) caught at cover off Peter Seelar in the 8th over.Seelar then went on to dismiss Sachin (27) and new man Pathan(11) in one over.Sachin past the 2000 world cup runs mark during his innings.In 15th over Kohli was bowled by Borren and India were 99-4 and Dutch were in little bit of hope of an upset.But Gambhir (28) and Yuvraj put 40 runs for 5th wicket stand before Gambhir was castled by Bukhari in 24th over.Then skipper Dhoni and Yuvraj guided India to get past the required score with 13.3 overs to spare.Yuvraj awarded man of the match for his all round performance.The victory over the Dutch virtually sealed a berth for the hosts in the quarterfinals.
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