An emphatic six by Gunasekera took Canada to their first win in the Intercontinental Cup since 2007. Netherlands resumed on day 3 of the match at King City trailing Canada by over 100 with 6 second innings wickets remaining. Szwarczynski and Baresi continued their useful partnership to whittle away the lead. They put on 59 before both fell to catches by the keeper, one off Baidwan and the other off Gordon – 203/6. Netherlands made Canada work hard for the win, with the tail wagging, notably Heggleman who made an unbeaten 75 to make Canada bat again. Canada lost Patel and Kumar but Gunasekera went on the attack, smashing 44 from 24 balls for the win. This is an important win for the Canadian squad, led by some mature batting from Gunasekera, and important contributions with the ball from Gordon, Baidwan and Raza-ur-Rehman.
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Day 2: A maiden first-class hundred from Gunasekera has put Canada well on top on the second day of the InterContinental Cup match against the Netherlands. The young left hander was dismissed for 150 on the stroke of lunch but Canada managed to extend their lead to 272. Two quick wickets as the Netherlands batted again have Canada thinking about an inning victory. Netherlands ended the day trailing by 103 and with 4 wickets down.

Canada resumed on 116/4 after bowling out the Netherlands for 164 on the first day. A century partnership between Gunasekera and nighwatchman Salman Nazar (making his first-class debut) took Canada to a first innings lead. Salman Nazar batted aggressively and reached an impressive half century with a pull for six. Gunasekera completed an excellent maiden first class hundred shortly afterwards, his highest score for Canada in any form of the game. They put on 112 before Salman Nazar was caught behind for 60. Hansra joined Gunasekera and went on the attack immediately hitting four fours from his first ten balls, and followed up with a couple of sixes. Gunasekera also accelerated and the lead quickly extended to over 100. Hansra brought up the 300 with his third six. Gunasekera reached 150, but then was caught on the stroke of lunch – 150 in 173 balls, with 21 fours and three sixes. Hansra and Deasrath continued to build the lead, Hansra reaching his fifty from 62 balls. He was out soon afterwards, but Deasrath (46) and the tail took Canada to 436 all out.

Baidwan and Gordon with a wicket each had the Netherlands in deep trouble at 4/2.Gordon struck again to break a promising partnership between Szwarczynski and Gruijeters. Van Bunge joined Szwarczynski in a 99 run partership, broken by Raza-ur-Rehman – 144/4. Szwarczynski survived being hit on the head by Gordon, and was also dropped on 73 but ended the day on 76 not out.

Day 1: Canada play Netherlands in a four day Intercontinental Cup match starting today at King City. Morning rain meant a prompt start was not on the cards. Asish Bagai, Canada’s captain of the week, won the toss and chose to bowl. Jeremy Gordon made the first break-through as Rippon edged a short ball to Bagai, and on the stroke of lunch Pervez bowled Swart for 31. At the break Netherlands were 50/2. Netherlands made rapid progress after the break led by a half-century from Eric Szwarczynski, who was dropped off Baidwan twice in the same over. He was dropped a third time before Pervez had him leg-before for 57 – 132/3. This precipitated a remarkable collapse as the Dutch fell to 164 all out. Raza-ur-Rehman bowled superbly to take 4/8 from 8 overs, and Jeremy Gordon also took four wickets.
Patel and Gunasekera got Canada off to a bright start, putting on 34 before Patel was bowled. Kumar and Raza-ur-Rehman both went for ducks to Kingma but Bagai and Gunasekera put on 73 before Bagai (33) fell in the last over of the day. Gunasekera was unbeaten on 60.