Emirati cricket team in the Netherlands in 2019

The United Arab Emirates cricket team toured the Netherlands in August 2019 to play four Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1][2] The fixtures were part of both teams' preparations for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament.^[3][4] For the series, the United Arab Emirates recalled the majority of their squad from the 2019 Global T20 Canada tournament, while the Dutch team chose not to recall their players from Canada, or from the 2019 County Championship in England.^[5] The United Arab Emirates won the series 4–0.^[6]

Emirati cricket team in the Netherlands in 2019
	Netherlands	United Arab Emirates
Dates	3 – 8 August 2019
Captains	Pieter Seelaar	Mohammad Naveed[n 1]
Twenty20 International series
Results	United Arab Emirates won the 4-match series 4–0
Most runs	Max O'Dowd (148)	Ashfaq Ahmed (210)
Most wickets	Sebastiaan Braat (4) Vivian Kingma (4)	Rohan Mustafa (8)

Squads

T20Is
Netherlands[7]	United Arab Emirates[8]
Pieter Seelaar (c) Sebastiaan Braat Philippe Boissevain Ben Cooper Scott Edwards Brandon Glover Vivian Kingma Stephan Myburgh Hidde Overdijk Max O'Dowd Antonius Staal Saqib Zulfiqar Sikander Zulfiqar	Mohammad Naveed (c) Ashfaq Ahmed Qadeer Ahmed Sultan Ahmed Waheed Ahmed Mohammad Boota Darius D'Silva Zawar Farid Zahoor Khan Rohan Mustafa Ahmed Raza Ghulam Shabber (wk) Rameez Shahzad Muhammad Usman

T20I series

1st T20I

3 August 2019 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

United Arab Emirates  181/5 (20 overs)	v	Netherlands 168/4 (20 overs)
Ashfaq Ahmed 54 (35) Vivian Kingma 2/47 (4 overs)		Max O'Dowd 51 (35) Rohan Mustafa 2/26 (4 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 13 runs VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen Umpires: Adriaan van den Dries (Ned) and Pim van Liemt (Ned)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.
• Antonius Staal (Ned) and Darius D'Silva (UAE) both made their T20I debuts.

2nd T20I

5 August 2019 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Netherlands  136/9 (20 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 140/5 (19.3 overs)
Ben Cooper 46 (38) Rohan Mustafa 3/27 (4 overs)		Rameez Shahzad 49 (41) Saqib Zulfiqar 1/4 (1 over)

United Arab Emirates won by 5 wickets VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen Umpires: Rizwan Akram (Ned) and Huub Jansen (Ned)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
• Philippe Boissevain, Sebastiaan Braat (Ned) and Waheed Ahmed (UAE) all made their T20I debuts.

3rd T20I

6 August 2019 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

United Arab Emirates  152/8 (20 overs)	v	Netherlands 138/9 (20 overs)
Ashfaq Ahmed 56 (41) Sebastiaan Braat 3/26 (4 overs)		Max O'Dowd 65 (54) Rohan Mustafa 3/30 (4 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 14 runs Sportpark Westvliet, Voorburg Umpires: Rizwan Akram (Ned) and Adriaan van den Dries (Ned)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.
• Zawar Farid (UAE) made his T20I debut.

4th T20I

8 August 2019 16:00 (D/N) Scorecard

Netherlands  150/6 (20 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 153/3 (19.4 overs)
Antonius Staal 28* (16) Sultan Ahmed 2/29 (4 overs)		Ashfaq Ahmed 75 (53) Hidde Overdijk 1/11 (2 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 7 wickets Sportpark Westvliet, Voorburg Umpires: Huub Jansen (Ned) and Pim van Liemt (Ned)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.

Notes

1. Rameez Shahzad captained the United Arab Emirates in the fourth T20I.