New Zealand cricket team in the Netherlands in 2020

The New Zealand cricket team were scheduled to tour the Netherlands in June 2020 to play a one-off Twenty20 International (T20I) match.[1] It would have been the first time that the New Zealand team have toured the Netherlands since 1986.[2] New Zealand were also scheduled to tour Scotland and Ireland in the same month to play One Day International (ODIs) and T20Is.[3]

New Zealand cricket team in the Netherlands in 2020
 
  Netherlands New Zealand
Date 15 June 2020
Twenty20 International series

The COVID-19 pandemic put the match in doubt.[4] In April 2020, David White, Chief Executive of New Zealand Cricket, said that the tour would be "most unlikely" to happen.[5]

However, on 22 April 2020, the Dutch government announced that it had banned all events in the country, both sports and cultural, until 1 September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6][7]

Only T20I

References
  1. "Great summer of cricket ahead". Royal Dutch Cricket Association. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  2. "KNCB announces a full month of international cricket". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
  3. "New Zealand Bready bound". Cricket Europe. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  4. "New Zealand say Scotland and Ireland games 'highly unlikely'". BBC Sport. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  5. "New Zealand: Men's tours 'most unlikely', women won't go to Sri Lanka". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 March 2020.
  6. "All international matches in the Netherlands postponed". Royal Dutch Cricket Association. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  7. "Coronavirus: Huge cloud over Black Caps tours to UK and West Indies because of Covid-19". Stuff. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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