The Dutch bowlers made a superb comeback today, pulling South Africa back from 84 for 2 in the ninth over. Ahsan Malik lead the way with his five, but South Africa still have a total to defend. What's more, they have Dale Steyn and Imran Tahir in their bowling attack, so Netherlands still have a long way to go if they are to cause an upset. Join us in 10 minutes for the chase.
Tahir flays a boundary square of the wicket off the first ball of van der Gugten's over, and he and Tsotsobe scamper hard to add vital runs for South Africa.
WICKETS! Malik grabs his fourth and fifth dismissals! This is a day he'll never forget. The pitch has proved perfect for his dibbly-dobbler medium pace. Hendricks shuffled across and top-edged an ugly swipe before Miller ran past a full, straight one to be bowled. A top, top effort for a bowler who simply doesn't have the pace to threaten. Will South Africa be bowled out?
Plenty of tip-and-run cricket from Miller and Hendricks, who swap the strike repeatedly during Bukhari's final over. It's a good final effort from the bowler, who aims length deliveries at Hendricks and yorkers at Miller. Just five from the over! Two to go.
WICKET! Malik snares a third, and Netherlands are right in this match. It's actually not the easiest pitch to bat on - a little dry, the ball stopping on the surface - but the Dutch have also stuck gamely to their plans. Malik came round the wicket to the right-hander, as he always does, and Steyn managed to squeeze the ball past point for a boundary. But when he stepped out to inflict further damage, he could only edge a slow cutter through to Barresi.
WICKET! Timm van der Gugten returns, and removes Duminy! He'd actually got the better of Miller with a slower ball earlier in the over, a false stroke looping over point, but it's a quick, shortish delivery that gets the wicket. In fact, it was rather a bad ball, headed down the leg side, but Duminy got inside it and tickled the ball down the leg side and straight into Barresi's gloves. They've got a slip in now!
It's worth mentioning the Dutch fielding, which has been unobtrusively tight so far. Not spectacular, but tight enough - similar to their bowling. Bukhari is brought back for another over of seamers, peppering his over with slower deliveries, and some steady work from the inner ring of fielders helps Netherlands to keep South Africa to six from the over. Five remain.
Plenty of fancy footwork from the batsmen, but Cooper watches their feet closely and generally does a good job of readjusting his lobbed spinners. Just ones and twos make it six from the over. One more wicket and Netherlands will be right in this. Duminy and Miller need to bat at least five overs together.
WICKET! The tenacious Ahsan Malik returns to snare Morkel! Malik's bowling, distinctly medium pace and gunbarrel straight through the air, shouldn't work, but it does. A frustrated Morkel tried to muscle a length delivery over midwicket, but got rather too much underneath it and Ben Cooper once again showed safe hands at deep midwicket. Miller and Duminy could still decimate the Dutch, but these wickets are rather handy for the underdogs.
There's not a lot of work on Tom Cooper's straight-breaks, but he varies his pace very well in this over to protect the boundary. Morkel also finds his round-the-wicket line a little awkward, but brings up South Africa's hundred with a firm cut to deep point for one.
WICKET! Logan van Beek has his first Twenty20 international dismissal, and it's a big one! De Villiers shimmied down the pitch to his first delivery, but sliced underneath his attempted loft and Ben Cooper settled under an easy chance at deep cover. The reinvigorated bowler concedes just two singles off the remainder of the over, and Netherlands continue to keep touch with South Africa.
Some slightly lazy running from Morkel might have seen him run out in this over - if the throw from the deep had been on target. Alas, it wasn't, but Bukhari bowls a solid second over to keep the batsmen to ones and twos. With half of their overs spent, South Africa have set a solid base. How soon until de Villiers and Morkel launch?
WICKET! Netherlands have the breakthrough, and it's Tom Cooper's offspin that provides it. Du Plessis found his range with an imperious swatted drive for six over extra cover, but when he charged out at the next delivery he couldn't get quite to the pitch and hoicked it straight out to van Beek at deep midwicket. South Africa are asserting themselves with the bat, but Netherlands aren't letting them get too far away thanks to these wickets. Ah, but what's this - Albie Morkel has come out at no. 5.
Pieter Seelaar trundles in with his left-arm spin. He's lucky that his first ball isn't immediately put away - it's a long-hop but it's lapped straight to short fine leg. Both du Plessis and de Villiers use their feet to get at the bowler, and du Plessis uses his strong bottom hand to fetch a full toss from off-stump to the midwicket boundary, evading the converging fielders. There's a humorous moment when du Plessis calls for a hard-run two later in the over, falling over completing the second run, but there's no harm done.
Peter Borren turns to his most experienced bowler, Mudassar Bukhari, to bring back a measure of control. He offers a pleasing wicket-to-wicket line with his fast-medium seamers, and a canny offcutter too, with which he finds the outside edge of du Plessis' bat. Unfortunately for him, it's a thick edge and there's no slip, so four runs are the result.
A loose over from Logan van Beek, and an untroubled du Plessis collects from it. Van Beek has some nip, but not a great deal of control and du Plessis latches onto a full toss to collect a boundary down the ground. Two leg-side wides follow, before poor van Beek loses his run-up completely and has to re-start his seventh delivery. His 8th isn't particularly good either, and de Villiers flicks it neatly to the fine leg boundary. One senses that van Beek is straining too hard to make something happen. South Africa, meanwhile, will be pleased to have plundered 58 runs from the Powerplay.
WICKET! Some relief for Netherlands! Ahsan Malik, their plucky round-the-wicket medium-pacer, has struck. Amla went after the bowler from the first delivery, aiming a slightly ungainly swipe down the ground that had mid-on interested in a catch. After biffing Malik back over his head for four, he aims another shot over mid-off but can only feather an edge through to Barresi. A good over from this magnetic bowler, but Netherlands need to string a couple of them together to really challenge South Africa.
Van der Gugten continues, and his second delivery is lifted cleanly in front of square by a marauding Amla. Fortunately for the Dutch, van der Gugten adjusts his line and length thereafter to limit the damage, despite Amla's repeated attempts to shuffle around in the crease and create scoring opportunities. Another wicket would be handy for Netherlands, but one feels that there'll be no let-up from South Africa's batsmen.
Amla opens the floodgates! After taking a wicket, Swart is kept on for another over, but this time it's the Dutch who are hurt. Hashim Amla, who usually like to play himself in, starts the flow with a shimmy down the wicket and a sliced loft over long off four six. With Swart getting very little work on the ball, he collects more runs over cover, to long leg, and even via the outside edge of a booming drive. Five boundaries in the over!
Van der Gugten takes the new ball from the opposite end, offering bustling pace and a proud seam. But he feeds Amla outside off stump with a succession of short, wide deliveries, and the South African collects his first boundary with a fierce, whiplash cut through cover point. Seven runs boost South Africa's score.
WICKET! Netherlands' unorthodox tactics pay off! Swart opens the bowling with his offspin - not all that surprising, as we've seen several teams start with a slow bowler since the qualifiers. He stays round the wicket to both Amla and de Kock, Amla fetching two runs through square leg to start the innings. For de Kock, however, the Dutch have a man at short fine leg and a man at backward square leg, and he whips the ball straight at Myburgh at square leg to depart. No flight or turn for Swart, but he's given his team an ideal start
Netherlands captain Peter Borren reckons there might be some dew around later, backing up his decision to field first, and indeed South Africa's captain Faf du Plessis suggests he would also have fielded first. The track, though, looks a good one for batting, as you'd expect, and South Africa will want to post a large total to boost their net run-rate.
Netherlands: 1 Myburgh, 2 Swart, 3 Barresi (wk), 4 T Cooper, 5 Borren (c), 6 B Cooper, 7 Bukhari, 8 van Beek, 9 Seelaar, 10 van der Gugten, 11 Malik.
South Africa: 1 de Kock (wk), 2 Amla, 3 du Plessis (c), 4 de Villiers, 5 Duminy, 6 Miller, 7 Morkel, 8 Steyn, 9 Hendricks, 10 Tahir, 11 Tsotsobe.
Captain Peter Borren triumphs in the flip of the coin and the Netherlands will bowl first.
Hello and welcome to our over-by-over commentary of Thursday's important World Twenty20 Group 1 fixture between the Netherlands and South Africa at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong.