Borren expresses his pride at qualifying

Quote:Peter Borren, the Netherlands’ captain, expressed his pride at the team’s effort in qualifying for the Super 10s at the ICC World Twenty20 2014 by beating Ireland in Sylhet.

Quote:Assessing the competition across world cricket, Borren said that the teams are extremely competitive, even at the lower end of the Test-playing nations. “Anyone can beat anyone, particularly in Twenty20 cricket. That’s been shown in the last two days, where Zimbabwe got over UAE – which was probably expected, but the other three – Nepal beating Afghanistan, Hong Kong beating Bangladesh and us beating Ireland results was not expected,” he said.

Quote:“I think we sort of shot ourselves in the foot a little bit in New Zealand in the World Cup Qualifiers. We’re not sure yet what the ICC are going to decide. But I think this tournament has shown that there are a lot of teams that are capable of competing against one another and possibly compete with full members.

Quote:“I hope the ICC finds room for us in the calendar because we’ve played a lot of cricket in the last three years. We’ve been very lucky to be in the High Performance Programme and hopefully we continue to get the funding and the fixtures.”