England thrash Netherlands to win third ODI and take series 3-0 – live!

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Over-by-over report: Will England complete a clean sweep in their one-day series against the Netherlands? Find out with our writers.

11th over: England 92-2 (Roy 37, Buttler 1) Roy glides Pringle away fine for four and then milks a few singles as things calm down slightly after the double whammy from van Meekeren.

“Hi Jim, welcome back”

Thanks John Foster, good to be back on the OBO tools.

“All this chat reminds me of a quotation from a (probably no longer acceptable) novel: ‘Whatever happens to a boy [sic] in the summer when he’s fourteen will shape him for the rest of his life’. For me it was Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and a succession of abject England cricket performances. Might not be the best, might not be the norm, but that’s what sticks - for you, at that time.

In language teaching, they talk of a phenomenon called ‘fossilisation’, which means a recurring, deeply embedded, linguistic error that’s been so obscured by an overall communicative competence that it can’t be fixed and doesn’t really matter. Aren’t all our music/cricketing preferences/prejudices essentially fossilised from about that age? We’re all fossils but it’s nice when somebody chips away at the rock.

Cheers!”

That is great John, and definitely strikes a chord. I’m off to see The Strokes with my old school pals in a few weeks. Talk about fossils...

“When we was young, oh man, did we have fun

Always

Always”

30th over: England 242-2 (Roy 101, Buttler 80) Roy has to go some to bring up his hundred before Buttler finishes this match... he duly plays three flashing drives to get him the required runs! 4, 4 and 4 down the ground to go to his tenth ODI hundred, that also draws him level with the man at the other end. He missed out