Netherlands 245 for 8 (Edwards 78*, van der Merwe 29, Jansen 2-27) beat South Africa 207 (Miller 43, van Beek 3-60, van der Merwe 2-34, de Leede 2-36, van Meekeren 2-40) by 38 runs

Having slipped to 50 for 4 then lurched to 140 for 7, Netherlands piled on 105 runs from the last nine overs via Edwards, who finished on 78 not out off 69 deliveries, van der Merwe with 29 off 19 and Aryan Dutt with 23 off 9 to set a target of 246 that had seemed so unlikely when South Africa’s pace quartet of Kagiso Rabada, Marco Jansen, Gerald Coetzee and Lungi Ngidi set about their work.

Then van der Merwe took two wickets for three runs with his first eight balls in South Africa’s run chase as Colin Ackermann and Paul van Meekeren also snared early wickets to leave the overwhelming pre-match favourites reeling at 44 for 4.

Quinton de Kock attempted to paddle Ackermann, only to lob a catch to keeper Edwards via glove then shoulder, Temba Bavuma saw his stumps splattered by van der Merwe’s first ball, van Meekeren beat Aiden Markram’s defences with a shorter delivery which kept low and Rassie van der Dussen reverse swept van der Merwe straight to Dutt at backward point to put South Africa in all sorts of bother.