Published: Feb 23, 2015, 12:23 PM (IST)
Edited: Mar 03, 2016, 12:49 AM (IST)
March 3, 2003, Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein saw the first occasion where a batsman scored a hundred and claimed 4 wickets in a World Cup cricket match. Abhishek Mukherjee chronicles Netherlands’ maiden World Cup cricket victory.
Note: Several records have been updated since this article was written.
Ask your random cricket fan about Feiko Kloppenburg, and you will get a confused look. Ask a cricket statistician, and his eyes are bound to light up. He is one of those names, who, despite their relative obscurities and brief careers, have etched their names forever in the annals of history: Andy Ganteaume; Rodney Redmond; “Father” Marriott; Gobo Ashley; and Kloppenburg.
Both Netherlands and Namibia had lost all their matches in ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 till then. Netherlands had also lost all matches in Cricket World Cup 1996, which meant they had lost 10 matches on the trot since their Cricket World Cup debut. True, they had put up fights against England in 1996 and India in 2003, but a 10-defeat run was something no team would be proud of — especially if it involved a defeat against UAE.
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Nobody expected Namibia to do well in ICC Cricket World Cup 2003, and they lived “up” to everyone’s expectations. They batted second on all five matches, and their 55-run defeat against England at St George’s Park was the only time they put up a battle of sorts. Here, too, they had to bat as Luuk van Troost chose to bat.
Feiko the batsman
Rudi van Vuuren, that double-international who would play 2003 Rugby World Cup in Australia, ran through the defence of Edgar Schiferli in the sixth over of the match. It was the last bit of joy Namibia would have till the 44th over: Kloppenburg and Klaas-Jan van Noortwijk added 228 in 230 balls; Gerrie Snyman eventually had Kloppenburg, playing a tired shot and getting caught-behind.
Runs were plundered in the interim. Kloppenburg was the more sedate of the two with a 142-ball 121 with 6 fours and 4 sixes. Meanwhile, van Noortwijk, exhausted and pausing for breath every now and then, had reached 100 from 111 (he eventually remained unbeaten on a 129-ball 134 with 11 fours and 3 sixes).
In the meantime, Louis Burger (one of three Namibian Burgers in the match — the other being Jan-Berrie and Louis’ brother Sarel) claimed two quick wickets. He was even on a hat-trick, clean bowling Bas Zuiderent and Tim de Leede in consecutive balls, but sent a wide down leg-side to van Troost next ball.
Van Noortwijk and van Troost held firm as Netherlands raced to 314 for 4 in the stipulated 50 overs. Louis Burger, with figures of 10-1-49-2, was easily the pick of the bowlers.
Feiko the bowler
To be fair to the Namibians, their chase began in spirited fashion. Morne Karg and Jan-Berrie Burger added 73 in 13 overs when van Troost introduced Kloppenburg to bowl his military-medium: Burger tried to hoist Kloppenburg’s fourth ball out of the ground, but could only find Ruud Nijman, substituting for a fatigued van Noortwijk, on the fence. Shortly afterwards Karg was caught brilliantly — again by Nijman — this time at deep extra-cover off de Leede.
But Namibia were not to be bogged down: Danie Keulder and Gavin Murgatroyd added 92 from 109 balls before that man Kloppenburg ran through Keulder’s defence. Murgatroyd batted on, this time in the company of Deon Kotze, his skipper, and Namibia’s target was reduced to 106 from 65 balls with 7 wickets in hand.
Then Murgatroyd holed out to Bas Zuiderent at long-off as Henk-Jan Mol struck. Kloppenburg dented the Namibian line-up further by dismissing Louis Burger and Snyman off consecutive deliveries. He finished with 4 for 42, thus becoming the first bowler in ICC Cricket World Cup to score a hundred and take 4 wickets in the same match.
The rest of the wickets fell in a heap against the innocuous off-breaks of Adeel Raja: Namibia, bowled out for 250 in 46.3 overs, lost by 64 runs. They lost their last 7 wickets for 41 from 45 deliveries.
Playing the Dutch way
The description of the match would not be complete without two Dutch references. Everyone is aware of the phrase “Going Dutch”, and the Namibian innings exemplified this perfectly: Jan-Berrie Burger and Karg, the openers, scored 41 each; Keulder and Murgatroyd, Nos. 3 and 4, scored 52 each; and Kloppenburg and Adeel Raja, bowling together, claimed 4 for 42 apiece. Do I need to mention that several Namibians playing in the match were of Dutch origin?
The other incident happened halfway during the Namibian innings when an automatic water-sprinkler went berserk and started spraying water on the ground. The groundsmen ran in, but to no avail as Dutch wicketkeeper Jeroen Smits looked on.
What followed was typically Dutch. As Ralph Dellor wrote in ESPNCricinfo, “The Dutch, however, have years of experience when it comes to dealing with water where they do not want it. Smits simply trod on the sprinkler head and it obligingly went back into the ground.”
What followed?
– Kloppenburg never played another international match.
– Namibia never played in ICC Cricket World Cup again.
– Netherlands has won one other World Cup match till date. After bowling out Scotland for 136 at Basseterre in 2007, they won by 8 wickets with 157 balls to spare.
– Tillakaratne Dilshan is the only other cricketer to score a hundred and take 4 wickets in a single World Cup match. The count in all ODIs is currently 12.
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100 runs and 4 wickets in same ODI |
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Player |
World Cup |
Batting |
Bowling |
Against |
Venue |
Year |
|
Viv Richards |
119 (113) |
10-0-41-5 |
New Zealand |
Dunedin |
1987 |
|
|
Nathan Astle |
117 (132) |
8-0-43-4 |
Pakistan |
Mohali |
1997 |
|
|
Sachin Tendulkar |
141 (128) |
9.1-0-38-4 |
Australia |
Dhaka |
1998 |
|
|
Sourav Ganguly |
130 (160) |
4-0-21-4 |
Sri Lanka |
Nagpur |
1999 |
|
|
Sanath Jayasuriya |
122 (105) |
10-1-39-4 |
Australia |
SCG |
2003 |
|
|
Feiko Kloppenburg |
Yes |
121 (142) |
10-0-42-4 |
Namibia |
Bloemfontein |
2003 |
|
Chris Gayle |
112* (75) |
10-1-24-4 |
Zimbabwe |
Harare |
2003 |
|
|
Shoaib Malik |
118 (110) |
9.1-1-19-4 |
Hong Kong |
SSC |
2004 |
|
|
Paul Collingwood |
112* (86) |
10-1-31-6 |
Bangladesh |
Trent Bridge |
2005 |
|
|
Yuvraj Singh |
118 (122) |
10-0-28-4 |
England |
Indore |
2008 |
|
|
Tillakaratne Dilshan |
Yes |
144 (131) |
3-1-4-4 |
Zimbabwe |
Pallekele |
2011 |
|
Shakib Al Hasan |
101 (99) |
10-0-41-4 |
Zimbabwe |
Chittagong |
2014 |
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Brief scores:
Netherlands 314 for 4 in 50 overs (Feiko Kloppenburg 121, Klaas-Jan van Noortwijk 134*) beat Namibia 250 (Jan-Berrie Burger 41, Morne Karg 41, Danie Keulder 52, Gavin Murgatroyd 52; Feiko Kloppenburg 4 for 42, Adeel Raja 4 for 42).
Man of the Match: Feiko Kloppenburg.
(Abhishek Mukherjee is the Chief Editor and Cricket Historian at CricketCountry. He blogs here and can be followed on Twitter here.)
