{"id":380625,"date":"2026-01-20T16:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380625\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T16:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T16:52:10","slug":"kalis-leads-dutch-to-seven-run-win-over-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/380625\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalis leads Dutch to seven-run win over Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland got off to a losing start at the Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Global Qualifier, with a score of 87 not out from Sterre Kalis leading the Netherlands to a seven-run victory in Nepal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chasing 157-6, Scotland reached 119-3 in the 16th over, with Katherine Fraser hitting a swift 41 and captain Kathryn Bryce getting to 42.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sarah Bryce added 30, losing her wicket in the 18th over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four byes and a six from Megan McCall in the penultimate over kept Scotland in touch but she was out from the next ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Needing 11 from final over to win, Ailsa Lister and Priyanaz Chatterji could only muster three singles from the bowling of Silver Siegers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Heather Siegers and skipper Babbette de Leede each made 18, but Kalis was the Dutch star, making her undefeated 87 from 60 balls and crushing 14 fours along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rachel Slater was the pick of the Scottish bowlers, taking 3-24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Netherlands sit top of Group B on two wins from two outings, along with Thailand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both nations have beaten Zimbabwe, who Scotland meet next on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scotland got off to a losing start at the Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup Global Qualifier, with a score&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-380625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}