No Skill Only Nerve

T20 World Cup in England got off to a soggy start. But there was no shortage of entertainment and absolutely no sogginess in the way, underdogs Netherlands, went about their chasing to beat England and that too in the last over. What a ripper of a match to the start of a tournament? I should say that the team, which held the nerve until the last moment won the game on the day. And of course England just didn't have the nerve to pull of a victory. 

The English fielding was woeful. I could at least count 5 throws not being collected and Stuart Broad himself missing at least 4 opportunities in the ultimate over. When Stuart Broad had bowled 5 balls, conceding just 5 runs, it was a very good over until then. But he just didn't hold his nerve to have forced a tie, by just stopping the ball. Had the match gone to the super over, England would have psychologically felt better. Not sure, what Collingwood had told Broad when he bowled the last ball. Or didn't he tell anything anything to Broad at all? 

Though England lost the match, just cant discount the fact in which Netherlands went about chasing a decent total of 160+. De Grooth batted like a champion batsman, with support from other batsman. The Deutch bowling was also pretty good, in the second half. And they held the nerve in the final phase of their chasing. The batting was not great. There was little skill in display in their batting. But it was the nerve that mattered, more than skill.