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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Tanya Aldred at the VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen

Roy and Buttler power England to ODI clean sweep over Netherlands

Jason Roy celebrates reaching his century against the Netherlands in Amstelveen.
Jason Roy celebrates reaching his century against the Netherlands in Amstelveen. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images

England tucked another win under the belt to complete a whitewash of the Netherlands as Jason Roy, with a century, and Jos Buttler hurly-burlied them along to an eight-wicket win with 119 balls to spare.

So quick was England’s hitting, so solid was the base right from the off, that it came as a surprise when Phil Salt was bowled by one that dipped in and clipped the top of leg stump, one short of a very fast half-century. When Dawid Malan followed two balls later, for a duck, bowled round his legs attempting a kind of leg-side heave, Paul van Meekeren sprinted across the outfield as if he had just nodded in a hat-trick.

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