Pakistan v Holland: the Holland Innings

18th over: Holland 75-4 (de Leede 14, van Bunge 14) Holland need 179 from 31 overs. They're holding their own.

17th over: Holland 73-4 (de Leede 14, van Bunge 13) As if responding to my criticism, the batsmen suddenly pull their fingers out. There's a six through the offside for de Leede and a four that goes the same way. And shock horror! Both batsmen are in double figures.

16th over: Holland 60-4 (de Leede 4, van Bunge 10) This partnership is now worth just 17 from 39 balls. They are scoring at 3.67 an over. Holland are losing a grip on this game. The good news is that Andrea is back. "Good afternoon to Dan, Scott and Robert Jackson. And 'Hats off!' to Sean. Of course I'm here. I've been following the coverage all morning, but in an attempt to better myself I've been reading an online edition of Pride and Prejudice at the same time, instead of pestering you with my usual nonsense. I'm not all about the smoking and cricket and pulling young men over the internet, you know." No, you been brushing up on some more old-fashioned methos, courtesy of that Jane Austen, haven't you?

15th over: Holland 58-4 (de Leede 2, van Bunge 10) Six runs for van Bunge off that over. Tim de Leede is struggling to get himself started and the run rate has slowed as a result. But these two just need to bed down for a bit now. Saqlian Mushtaq is coming on for Wasim. "There's this clever thing: the 24 hour clock. 1200 = midday. 0000 = midnight," offers Andrew Stoten. Yawn.

14th over: Holland 52-4 (de Leede 2, van Bunge 4) Two big shouts for lbw from Wasim, but he gets nothing more than a sore throat for his efforts. He keeps bowling his no-balls. Pakistan have bowled 22 extras so far. "I'm not sure where Sam Monteath hails from but, in London, the traditional method of differentiating between 12 midday and 12 midnight is that it tend to be rather dark at 12 midnight," writes fellow pedant Alistair Moffat. "Or am I missing the point here?"

13th over: Holland 50-4 (de Leede 2, van Bunge 4)Bearded Mapboy writes: "How come you guys can't narrate an entire ODI on your own? I can understand pilots, bus drivers and the like being limited in hours so that they don't make lethal mistakes but how dangerous could it be if you get a bit sleepy after watching the first 25 overs of Holland/Pakistan and spell Inzamam-ul-Haq a bit wrong?" You've clearly never met Scott Murray when he's being overworked.

Massive technical problems: Sorry, had to lose three overs there. We're operating on very low voltage here. My computer has gone a but Dave Seaman and is physically unable to save anything.

10th over: Holland 35-3 Crash! goes my computer. Bang! goes Holland's hopes. Wallop! Wasim has another wicket.

WICKET: Noortwijk c Latif b Akram 7 Do the Dutch want to give me a break? Klaas van Noortwijk shows a shocking absence of his first name to surrender Holland's third wicket in as many overs. Ye gads. Wasim gets another wicket thanks to the agility of the wicketkeeper Rashid Latif, although it was a shockingly inept and ineffective defensive prod from Klaas. Daan van Bunge is in now.

9th over: Holland 35-3 (de Leede 0, Noortwijk 0) It's all happening. No sooner has Zuiderent played the shot of Holland's day so far (a textbook cover drive), than he gives away his wicket. Then there's a big call for an edge at the end of Waqar Younis's's's's over. But thankfully Venkat preserves my sanity with a shake of his sensible head.

WICKET: Zuiderent lbw b Waqar Younis 8 I must be a prophet. Bye-bye Bas. Regulation lb. Tim de Leede's next.

8th over: Holland 31-2 (Zuiderent 4, Noortwijk 0) I've nothing more to add to that which appears in the paragraph beneath. I'm not going to overwork myself. I've got a feeling that these Holland batsmen are going to keep me busy enough with their stacatto stays at the wicket.

WICKET: Schiferli c Razzaq b Shoaib 9 Big heave from Shefellover and he's out. Sheer frustration from the bottle blonde batsman, that. He just wanted to wallop something. Sadly, he didn't get nearly enough on that delivery and Razzaq takes a good catch above his head at mid wicket. Klaas van Noortwijk is the new man in the middle.

7th over: Holland 30-1 (Zuiderent 4, Schiferli 9) Dan's back. Waqar Younis has brought himself on for a bowl. Big shout for lb but umpire Venkat rightly adjudges that the ball hit Schiferli's pad too high up. "Can we have a sweepstake on the Dutch score? I'll put up a whole pound on 56 all out," writes Gareth Johnson. At this stage Pakistan were 27-0 so, true to national stereotype, the Dutch are having no trouble 'scoring'.

6th over: Holland 26-1 (Zuiderent 4, Schiferli 6) Sean Ingle intermission: Dan's Apple Mac has just crashed - insert your own techie joke here - so you've got me for a bit. Not much to report on that over, alas: Shoaib steamed in, all sweat and hair and exaggerated grunt, and the Dutch batsmen played him very well indeed.

5th over: Holland 22-1 (Zuiderent 2, Schiferli 5) Two wides and a no-ball from Wasim... Fair enough. I didn't expect to get away with that monumental howler. And Stephen Riley, you were quickest off the mark. Even quicker than Shoaib. "Sorry to be pedantic, but what's Murali doing bowling for Pakistan in the second over? And at nearly 90mph, too!" I changed it almost immediately. It's sleep deprivation, honest. Our favourite maxim on the web: never wrong for long.

4th over: Holland 19-1 (Zuiderent 2, Schiferli 5) A sweet shot from Schiferli and it's a four through mid-wicket. Then four byes to make Mr Extras the leading run scorer for Holland so far today. Sam Monteath thinks that saying "12 midday" is "somewhat tautological". How does one differentiate from 12 midnight, then?

3rd over: Holland 9-1 (Zuiderent 1, Schiferli 1) Bas Zuiderent of Sussex gets off the mark immediately. Robert Jackson is bemoaning the absence of a regular emailer Andrea Lowe. "I notice that there are no Andrea updates today. Most disappointing. Was Scott ignoring her? Has she finally been turfed out of her work? Or has the diet of fags, salt'n'shake crisps, jaffa cakes and, err, unidentified 'protein' finally taken its toll? I think we should be told." Oi. Jackons. No. You might be treating this as some kind of extension to your chatroom world, but this is serious cricket reporting and I will not have it hi-jacked... Oh, who am I trying to kid. Andrea, are you there? (sigh).

WICKET: Statham b Wasim 0

Wasim Akram gets his 500th ODI wicket and does the pock-marked legend love that or what? They're taking their hats off to him in the crowd which excites my colleague Sean Ingle perhaps more than it should. To explain, "hats off!" is his favourite catchphrase, especially when used in conjunction with a reference to himself in the third person, thus: "Seany is saying 'hats off'!" The suspiciously-named Nick Statham (ringer anyone?) goes for a duck after playing on to his stumps. Wasim extends his lead as the most effective wicket taker in ODI history.

2nd over: Holland 6-0 (Statham 0, Schiferli 1) Shoaib fires a few blanks from his end (behave) which produce five leg-byes. A decent loosener from the pace man with 88.5mph his fastest delivery.

1st over: Holland 0-0 (Statham 0, Schiferli 0) Shiferli's best ODI score is 15. Nick Statham's is seven. Good grief. Neither of these prolific openers makes much attempt to improve on these figures and Wasim Akram starts with a maiden as a result. And since you ask, Graham Jones, Tuscan bean and sausage soup. Needed a bit more pepper in my opinion.

The state of play: Holland need 254 runs at just over five an over. It wasn't a particularly impressive performance with the bat from Pakistan this morning, but they should have done enough to win this one.

Meanwhile, to read what happened in the Pakistan innings, click here