Stephan Myburgh

Netherlands&#39; left-handed batter <a href="https://www.cricket.com/players/22116/stephan-myburgh/career-stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stephan Myburgh</a> has announced his retirement from international cricket on Monday (November 7). The 38-year-old made the announcement a day after the Netherlands defeated South Africa to knock them out of the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia.The opener slammed a 30-ball 37 and helped his team post a competitive total of 158/4 in their 20 overs. In reply, South Africa could only manage 145/8. With that win and Pakistan beating Bangladesh, the Men in Orange gained direct qualification for the 2024 T20 World Cup.&quot;Hanging up the boots&hellip; To God be the glory!!! Blessed to have made my first class debut 17 seasons ago and international debut 12 seasons ago. Never in my dreams would I have imagined finishing my career at the World Cup with a win against @cricket_south_africa_ my blood will always be green,&quot; Myburgh wrote in a post on Instagram. &nbsp;&quot;As much as a sportsman always want to win I had a tear for my beloved country. I am thankful for @kncbcricket and the Netherlands that&#39;s now my home and have too many people to thank for my career. Jesus, @tineke.myburgh , friends and family, sponsors and all the supporters out there I can only say thanks!!! #GodIsGood #Blessed can&#39;t wait to see my girls (sic).&quot;Myburgh made his international debut in September 2011 and went on to play 22 ODIs and 45 T20Is for the Netherlands. He scored close to 1500 runs and made nine half-centuries in his international career. The left-hander had already announced his retirement from ODIs earlier this year.One of his best knocks came against Ireland in the 2014 T20 World Cup. The Netherlands needed to chase down 190 in 14 overs to make it to the next round against Ireland in the 2014 edition. Knowing very well as to what was at stake, Myburgh raced 63 off just 23 deliveries and put on 91 for the first wicket with his skipper Peter Borren, which set up the match for his side.Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

He made the announcement a day after the Netherlands defeated South Africa to knock them out of the 2022 T20 World Cup 

ICC Men's T20 World Cup, Australia, 2022

Netherlands

Stephan Myburgh retires from international cricket

Stephan Myburgh is no stranger to taking the bowlers head-on in the T20 World Cup. He smashed Ireland to all parts, demolished South Africa&rsquo;s bowling attack and finished the tournament behind Virat Kohli and his teammate Tom Cooper as the third-highest run-getter in the tournament with 224 runs at a strike-rate of 154.48.The Netherlands have been drawn alongside Ireland, Namibia and Sri Lanka in Group A and the 37-year-old says he is excited to play his third T20 World Cup.&nbsp;&ldquo;Absolutely delighted to represent Netherlands again, which will be my third World Cup. Really looking forward to it. There are a lot of good teams out there and what we&rsquo;ll also see is the associate teams competing better and better every World Cup. Very exciting World Cup to be seen,&rdquo; Myburgh said in a chat with Cricket.com&rsquo;s show &lsquo;Know Your Associates.&rsquo;<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6IWLiiji4Hs" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Speaking of his experience in the T20 World Cup, the Netherlands opener said, &ldquo;Adrenaline plays a big role when you come to the big stages. The Netherlands don&rsquo;t get an opportunity to play in big leagues. The hype really helps &ndash; to know that the crowd is cheering you on, something that the Netherlands are not used to. That&rsquo;s something that&rsquo;s helped a lot, especially during the 2014 T20 World Cup when we were in Bangladesh.&rdquo;&ldquo;It also helps when you have a team that&rsquo;s supporting you and backing you, everyone knows your game plan and you don&rsquo;t fear any failure. It&rsquo;s important to back yourself. I was blessed to have a very good 2014 World Cup and hopefully, I can do it this year,&rdquo; he further added.The Netherlands needed to chase down 190 in 14 overs to make it to the next round against Ireland in the 2014 edition. Knowing very well as to what was at stake, Myburgh raced 63 off just 23 deliveries and put on 91 for the first wicket with his skipper Peter Borren, which set up the match for his side.However, while he acknowledges that it was a crucial innings, Myburgh feels that his knock against South Africa a couple of matches later was even more special considering who he was up against.&ldquo;When you go out there and&nbsp;you&rsquo;ve got to chase 190 in 14 overs, you literally got nothing to lose. You can take a few more risks and if it doesn&rsquo;t come off, it doesn&rsquo;t come off. That was an innings where it did come off,&rdquo; the Pretoria-born batter said.<img src="https://s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/image.cricket.com/articles/70d5f34303966f88d4a138b0b2033ebdef329f27.png" style="width: 900px; margin: 5px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&ldquo;From a personal point of view, against South Africa, I got a fifty off 20-odd balls and when you&rsquo;re facing Dale Steyn, Lonwobo Tsotsobe, Morne Morkel &ndash; you face some of the best in the world and score a fifty &ndash; for me that was a little bit special. That innings stands out to me a little bit more than the Ireland one,&rdquo; he explained.The Netherlands have a slightly upper hand going into their first match &ndash; incidentally against Ireland once again &ndash; given that they edged Ireland out in the ODI series recently.Speaking of what could once again be a blockbuster clash, Myburgh said, &ldquo;In the past, Ireland won majority of the games we played against each other. Since 2014, since that game, it&rsquo;s been pretty evenly balanced. They do have a fantastic team but we do back ourselves against them. That first game we play against them is going to be a crush game for both teams in order to go through to the second round.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.cricket.com/news/i-dont-know-my-final-xi-for-the-first-game-against-ireland-ryan-campbell-1634118321320" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Also Read - I don&rsquo;t know my final XI for the first game against Ireland: Ryan Campbell</a>&ldquo;Even though Utrecht (ODI series) was 50 overs, but we do take quite a bit of confidence from that series win. We missed four key players who were on County duty. With a team that was less experienced, we managed to win. So, it does give us a lot of confidence going into this tournament, playing against them first-up,&rdquo; he added.Following Netherlands&rsquo; victory in the World Cricket League (WCL), they progressed to the ODI Super League which gives them an opportunity to play against some of the established countries. They started off with a win over Ireland and are in line to face South Africa and England in the coming months, which Myburgh believes are terrific signs for Dutch cricket.&ldquo;When I made my debut we had a squad of just 12 guys to pick from. Now, I think a lot of guys have been unlucky not to be in the 17-man squad. We&rsquo;ve built a squad from 20-25 guys that could have all been here, who are unlucky to miss out. The strength of the squad has enlarged massively. The structure is getting a lot better in the Netherlands,&rdquo; Myburgh said.<a href="https://www.cricket.com/news/the-structure-is-getting-a-lot-better-in-the-netherlands-stephan-myburgh-1634216814075" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Also Read - Want to show the world what I&rsquo;ve got and not shy away: Fred Klaasen</a>&ldquo;Qualifying to play in the Super League gives you an opportunity to use some resources in order to grow the game at school and club level. For Netherlands it&rsquo;s been an up and down journey over the last 10 years and I think we&rsquo;re moving in the right direction and very excited for the future,&rdquo; he opined.The Netherlands are no strangers to causing an upset in the T20 World Cup. They have beaten England twice at the mega event. Will the Dutch spring a surprise or two in this edition? We&rsquo;re not too far away from finding out.Powered by <a href="https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor?pb=1" title="Froala Editor">Froala Editor</a>

The Netherlands opening batter is set to take part in his third T20 World Cup

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Stephan Myburgh retires from international cricket

The structure is getting a lot better in the Netherlands: Stephan Myburgh