Netherlands remains optimistic about making it to the last eight even after losing a crucial match to Bangladesh. Ryan Cook, the team's head coach, believes that if Bangladesh loses versus Nepal, they will make up for the loss of net run rate against Sri Lanka. Bangladesh and Netherlands still have hope for a Super Eight place, even if South Africa made it out of this group and into the Super Eight.

Bangladesh will confirm the last four if they defeat Nepal. The Dutch have to beat Sri Lanka, if Bangladesh loses they have to be ahead of Bangladesh in net run rate. Despite the tough equation ahead, Cook is still optimistic of victory.

He said, “There’s a lot on the line. We’ll obviously have to take some net run rate into account now and be hoping for some other results to go our way. At the end of the day, we can’t control that. We just gotta go and play a really good game of cricket against Sri Lanka.”

Cook also mentions about the warm-up game where they beat Sri Lanka. He says that that would give them the confidence in the match. “We’ll take some real pride in the fact that we beat them in the warm-up game and we’ve come close to them on a several occasions in the last year or so. So, I think it will be a good game of cricket between two very good teams. And we gotta be putting our best performance,” he added.

Netherlands will face Sri Lanka on June 17.