Cricket World Cup 2023: Ranking teams based on batting performances in third week

The Cricket World Cup 2023 is delivering some phenomenal cricketing action to ardent cricket fans nowadays. In the third week of the One-Day International (ODI) tournament, the hosts India beat New Zealand in Dharmashala by four wickets and superseded the Black Caps to reach the top of the points table.

Along with India, the week went well for South Africa and Australia as well. The Proteas hammered England and Bangladesh without any hassle and attracted attention to themselves. Australia, who were struggling in the first two weeks also made a comeback with their convincing victories against Pakistan and the Netherlands. In the impressive shows of these three sides, their batters exuded confidence with their stunning performances. Discussing more, let’s rate the batting performances of all sides from the third week of the tournament.

Here are ratings of all teams’ batting performances from the third week

10. Netherlands- 4/10

The Netherlands played two games in week three of the competition and in both games, they faced defeats. Their first match of the week was against Sri Lanka in Lucknow where they got a five-wicket loss. The Orange Army made a comeback in this game after losing six wickets at a score of 91.

Their top six batters failed to do anything special against Sri Lanka’s bowling attack but their lower-middle-order batters Sybrand Engelbrecht and Logan van Beek stepped up and played responsible innings of 70 (82) and 59 (75), respectively. Their innings helped the Dutch side to post a decent total of 262 runs on the board.

Their next encounter was against Australia at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, and this time, the five-time champions completely outclassed them in all departments of the game. Chasing a huge total of 400, they got bundled out at a score of 90 runs and broke into record books for becoming the side to get the World Cup’s heaviest defeat (in terms of runs) with their massive 309-run loss.