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The Dutch selectors have announced two winter training squads, comprising a total of 38 players, which will form the basis for preparations for next year’s World Cup qualifying tournament and, presumably, for next season’s full and A teams.
The lists contain few surprises, although talking points will include the inclusion of the much-discussed Australian-born Dutch passport-holder Dirk Nannes in the full squad, and of Hermes-DVS wicketkeeper Bart Schilperoord and four 17-year-olds, allrounder Tim Gruijters, wicketkeeper-batsmen Stijn Allema and Tobias Visée, and leg-spinner Vinoo Tewarie, in the A squad.
There has been a good deal of speculation about the availability for The Netherlands of the 32-year-old fast-medium bowler Nannes, who did well for Victoria last season and who has been playing for Middlesex this year.
It has been rumoured that he is keen to play for the Dutch national side, and he might well have appeared in the Twenty20 qualifier in Belfast had the KNCB and the county been able to reach agreement over his availability.
Another striking inclusion in the full squad is 25-year-old batsman Maurits van Nierop, an alumnus of the MCC Young Cricketers programme who has been living in South Africa and who has not appeared for a Dutch side – or, indeed, in the Hoofdklasse – since before the World Cup.
And another returnee is Hermes-DVS seamer Ruud Nijman, who had a good Hoofdklasse season and then topped it off by bowling impressively in the European A Championship.
It is from this squad that the parties will be named for whatever tours are arranged in the build-up to the World Cup qualifying tournament. The plans for an active winter programme have been thrown into question by the news that the ICC will be forced to move that tournament, perhaps to Bangladesh, and whether a proposed visit to South Africa and Namibia, provisionally scheduled for late November and early December, will now go ahead will depend on that decision.
The full squad is:
Peter Borren (VRA), Mudassar Bukhari (HBS), Daan van Bunge (Excelsior ’20), Atse Buurman (Voorburg), Ryan ten Doeschate (Essex), Tom de Grooth (HCC), Mark Jonkman, Maurits Jonkman (both HCC), Mohammed Kashif (Excelsior ’20), Alexei Kervezee (Worcestershire), Geert Maarten Mol, Henk-Jan Mol (both Quick Haag), Dirk Nannes (Victoria and Middlesex), Maurits van Nierop (VRA), Ruud Nijman (Hermes-DVS), Adeel Raja (VRA), Darron Reekers, Edgar Schiferli (both Quick Haag), Pieter Seelaar (Hermes-DVS), Jeroen Smits (HCC), Nick Statham (Hermes-DVS), Lesley Stokkers (Quick Haag), Eric Szwarczynski (VRA), and Bas Zuiderent (VOC).
The A team squad is:
Stijn Allema (Quick Haag), Rifaiz Bakas (Excelsior ’20), Jeroen Brand (Quick Haag), Steven de Bruin (ACC), Graeme Davey, Bob Entrop (both HCC), Tim Gruijters (Warwickshire Academy), Maarten van Ierschot (VOC), Somesh Kohli (Quick Haag), Bart Schilperoord (Hermes-DVS), Jelte Schoonheim (VOC), Vinoo Tewarie (VRA), Tobias Visée and Berend Westdijk (both HBS).
