The Netherlands national cricket team is operated and governed by the Royal Dutch Cricket Association. From January, 2006, to February, 2014, the Netherlands national cricket team occupied the complete status of One Day International matches. In June 2014, the Netherlanders also got the level of Twenty20 Internationals and played their first game in 2008. After the World Cup qualifier of 2018, the Dutch national cricket team regained its status of One Day Internationals. The Netherlanders took this position before the tournament for victory in the ICC World Cricket League Championship of 2015-17 and thus successfully qualified for ICC ODI League of 2021-22. They will remain in that position until the World Cup qualifier of 2022. Here are the top 10 best Captains in Netherlands cricket team-
10. Michael Swart
Michael Swart is a professional cricket player of the Australian cricket team who played for the Dutch national cricket team from 2011 to 2016. Micheal was born in Australia, and he also played for Western Australia in Australian domestic cricket.
9. Dik Abed
Dik was born on 22 October 1944. Dik was a cricket player who played for the Netherlands cricket team. Although, Dik was born in South Africa, he captained the Netherlands squad during the ICC Trophy of 1982.
8. Reinout Scholte
Reinout was born on 10 August 1967, is a former Dutch international cricket player. Rainout is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler but usually does wicket-keeping in the Netherlands cricket team. Rainout played for both HBS and VOC in domestic cricket.
7. Tim De Leede
Tim is a former Dutch cricket player who exceptionally had a long One Day International (ODI) career of 11 years in the Dutch national cricket team. Tim is a fantastic all-rounder, right-handed batsman; he played for the Netherlands squad in the World Cups of 1996, 2003, and 2007.
6. Roland Philippe Lefebvre
Roland is a former Dutch cricket player and also a former captain of the One Day International cricket team of the Netherlands. However, Roland was not played many international cricket matches at the time still; he is considered as one of the very few cricket players from outside the Test-playing teams to achieve a significant career in the professional game of cricket.
5. Luuk Van Troost
Luuk is a former Dutch cricket player, who captained the Dutch national cricket team. Luke usually holds the position between no. 6 and no. 8 in the order, and when in form scored quickly and smartly with his hard-hitting batting, while he rarely called for bowling but provided a handy option whenever required.
4. Steven Lubbers
Steven is a former Dutch cricket player and the first ODI captain of the Netherlands cricket team. Steven is an all-rounder, right-handed batsman, and right arm off-break bowler who captained the Dutch national cricket team for some years and was the first to take a wicket for the Netherlands squad in a One Day International match.
3. Jeroen Smits
Jeroen Smits is a right-handed batsman but primarily occupies the wicketkeeper position in the Netherlands national cricket team. Jeroen captained the Netherlands cricket team in the World Cup of 2007 against Scotland in the ICC World Twenty20 of 2009, Jeroen captained his national side to a win over hosts England, to date their most considering cricketing victory by some margin.
2. Pieter Seelaar
Seelaar was born on 2 July, 1987; he is a former cricketer, and was captain of the Netherlands national cricket team. Seelaar is a batsman who is a right-hander, and he bowls left-arm orthodox spin that plays for the Netherlands cricket squad. Seelaar has played for the Netherlands cricket team in the U-15, U-17, and U-19s.
1. Peter Borren
Peter Borren was born on 21 August 1983; he is an international cricket player in the Dutch national cricket team. Peter captained the Netherlands squad internationally until he retired from cricket in April 2018. Peter Borren made his debut first time in the Netherlands squad in the One Day International match of 2006 against Sri Lanka.
