Netherlands Roelof van der Merwe reflects on their ICC Cricket World Cup campaign after defeat in their final game to India

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00:00 Thank you very much for today. Mr. Rulof van de Merwe for all your questions.

00:03 Who is the first one? Yes, please.

00:05 Madam, congratulations and happy Diwali.

00:13 You played a fantastic cricket this season in this World Cup.

00:17 So what memories and what enthusiasm

00:21 you're carrying for your upcoming tournaments and for keeping

00:25 next World Cup in your mind?

00:28 Yes, I think we came here and we understood

00:31 the challenge of this World Cup against high quality teams.

00:35 I think we did carry ourselves well.

00:38 Obviously, there's so much improvement that still needs to happen.

00:42 But yeah, I think the boys stuck to it.

00:45 And, you know, we've got to look to the next next tournament

00:48 whenever that is and just improve.

00:56 Hi Rulof, you've played for a lot of top T20 teams in the past

01:00 and also for South Africa,

01:01 and you've played all the other teams before playing India.

01:04 Like, could you assess how good or how tough India are in this tournament

01:09 in terms of their end?

01:10 Is it one of the best teams that you've come across the way they are playing?

01:14 Look, India is a very well balanced side.

01:17 I mean, they got match winners all the way through.

01:20 So and they've showed it in this this World Cup thus far.

01:24 So they're going to be a very tough team to beat.

01:27 The other teams also South Africa has got got match winners in their team

01:33 and the consistency of New Zealand and Australia is Australia.

01:36 So it's going to be very, very interesting.

01:39 But I think India does shape up well.

01:41 Thank you so much.