Flying Dutch Men and Crawling Tigers

Netherlands obviously has got much better body language than Bangladesh coming into this ICC T20 Cricket World Cup 2014 , Ma shaa Allah... Look at their fielding, bowling and their typical dutch guts to stand strong against a top side like South Africa..! It's just amazing...Subhyan Allah..!! They have proved that their flying entry into the main round blowing away Ireland smashing 193/4 in just 13.5 overs was not just a fluke. I don't think their skipper Peter Borren would ever say any thing like " We have nothing to lose in this match ..  :(  ..." before even getting into the field. They were all through positive in this tournament. Coming back from the batting collapse (39 all out) in their previous match against Srilanka, they seemed to have gone more positive with an astonishing bounce back. What ever be the result of their immediate past they are never likely to give up the positive body language. To me, that's the beauty of the men in orange who are tagged as an associate team as of yet.That should be the ideal spirit of a team taking part in a world competition.

I just imagine in ICC trophy 1997, had Akram Khan (Captained the unbeaten champion Bangladesh team in that tournament) not played those match saving innings  against Scotland and Netherlands then these dutch sailors would have already rocked the cricketing world by now. I'd like to share a comment of a disgruntled Bangladeshi cricket fan in Facebook. "South Africa would have lost the match for sure had they been captained by Mushfiqur Rahim tonight. Mushfiq, the Bangladesh skipper, should take lessons from the way SA skipper, Fuf Du Plessis utilized his bowlers to win this nail biter against these charged up dutch men"