Netherlands: Cricket has expanded manifold in the last few years. The credit for this goes largely to T20 or limited overs cricket. Today, there are so many T20 leagues being played across the world. Not only this, now the situation is such that players who do not get a chance to play in their own country, start representing some other country.

Today we are going to talk about one such player from Netherlands. This player left his home country Australia and joined the Dutch team. Let us know in detail in this article which player we are talking about and how has his cricket career been.

The player who left Australia to play for Netherlands

Actually we are talking about the captain and wicketkeeper batsman of the Netherlands team, Scott Edwards. He is an Australian-Dutch cricketer. He was born on 23 August 1996 in Tonga.

However, he was raised in Australia. Scott studied at Emus College in Melbourne. His grandmother is from Australia. Because of this, this cricketer has citizenship of both countries.

Apart from this, Scott Edwards has also played club cricket for Australia. He made his first-class debut for the Netherlands against Namibia on 29 November 2017. In June 2022, the Dutch team appointed the 27-year-old player as the permanent captain of their team.

This is what the international career of this player has been like

Scott Edwards made his international cricket debut for Netherlands on 12 June 2018.

Since then, he has represented his team in 53 ODIs and 64 T20s. He has 1578 runs to his name in ODIs. This includes 16 half-century innings. He has also taken 51 catches and 9 stumpings behind the wicket.

Talking about T20 International, the right-handed batsman has scored 808 runs. Apart from this, he has 53 catches and 7 stumpings to his credit. Scott is as good a captain as he is a player. During the ODI World Cup played in India last year, Netherlands, under the leadership of this player, created a stir by defeating teams like England and South Africa.