“Scott” The Dutch cricketer Andrew Edwards was born on August 23, 1996, and he is of Australian and Dutch descent. He now plays for the Netherlands. On November 29, 2017, he made his debut for the Netherlands in the first-class competition against Namibia, which participated in the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup. During the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship, which took place on December 8, 2017, he made his debut in the List A competition against Namibia.
Edwards was appointed as the new captain of the Dutch cricket team in June 2022. This came about as a result of Pieter Seelaar’s decision to retire from international cricket owing to a back ailment that affected him for a lengthy period. He is the fifth one-day international skipper for the Netherlands. When Edwards was born, his father was working in Tonga, but he spent his childhood in Australia and attended Emmaus College in Melbourne. Edwards was born in Tonga.
Through his Dutch grandmother, he was able to get Dutch citizenship, and he now possesses dual citizenship on both the Dutch and Australian sides of the border. He has played club cricket in Australia for Richmond, which competes in the Victorian Premier Cricket. Before that, he was a member of the Blackburn South Cricket Club and the Highton Cricket Club at the same time. He is a member of Excelsior ’20, a club cricket team in the Netherlands. During this same period, Edwards had a romantic connection with Ryan Campbell, a former wicketkeeper for Australia who went on to become the head coach of the Netherlands Cricket Team in 2017.
Before Edwards started his career as a professional cricket player, he worked as an apprentice in the electrical industry. He expressed his feelings “It was pretty surreal, to be honest, was going about life as an apprentice, and then all of a sudden you’re playing international cricket coming up against Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis — it was pretty exciting”.In July 2019, Edwards was chosen to participate in the first-ever Euro Twenty20 Slam cricket event as a member of the Rotterdam Rhinos of the European Cricket Council. However, the event was canceled the month after it was scheduled to take place.
Scott Edwards Biography
| Name | Scott Edwards |
| Full Name | Scott Andrew Edwards |
| Date of Birth | 23 August 1996 |
| Place of Birth | Tonga |
| Other Names | NA |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Father’s Name | NA |
| Mother’s Name | NA |
| Siblings | NA |
| Spouse | NA |
| Marriage Date | NA |
| Children | NA |
| Role | Batting |
| Batting | Right-handed |
| Bowling | Right Arm Medium Seam |
| ODI Debut | August 01, 2018 vs. Nepal |
| Test Debut | NA |
| T20 Debut | June 12, 2018 vs. Ireland |
| Favourite Food | NA |
| Favourite Actor | NA |
| Favourite Actress | NA |
| Favourite Colour | Blue |
| Retirement | Still playing |
Edwards was called up to play for the Melbourne Renegades during the 2023–24 Big Bash League season in January 2024. He was allowed to start in place of Joe Clarke. It was announced in June of 2018 that he would be contributing to the Twenty20 International (T20I) side that would compete in the 2018 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series. He made his debut in a Twenty20 International on June 12, 2018, against Ireland. In July 2018, he was selected to be a member of the One Day International (ODI) team for the game series that the Netherlands would be playing against Nepal.
On August 1, 2018, he scored his first one-day international against Nepal. Edwards broke the global record for the quickest T10 century and the greatest individual T10 score in July 2019, when he participated in the 2019 European Cricket League. He scored 137 runs without being out off just 39 balls, making him the fastest player to ever get a T10 century. The Dutch team that competed in the 2019 ICC Twenty20 World Cup Qualifier competition in the United Arab Emirates included him as a member of the team.
In the days leading up to that competition, the International Cricket Council (ICC) selected him as the player to keep an eye on inside the Dutch team. In April 2020, he was one of seventeen cricketers residing in the Netherlands who were selected to be a part of the senior squad for the team. Before the matches that the Netherlands A team was scheduled to play against the Ireland Wolves, Edwards was given the honor of being appointed captain of the squad the next month. Edwards won a spot on the Dutch team that will compete in the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup in September of 2021.
While playing against England at the VRA Ground in Amsterdam in June 2022, Edwards scored three consecutive one-day international half-centuries Netherlands prevailed over the United States of America in the semi-finals of the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup Qualifier in July of 2022. As a result, they were able to advance to the first round of the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia in 2022. In October of 2023, he participated in the 2023 Cricket World Cup and performed a match-winning knock of 78 for the Dutch team, which led to their victory against South Africa by 38 runs.
Batting & Fielding Stats
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 51 | 47 | 8 | 1512 | 86 | 38.76 | 1675 | 90.26 | 0 | 15 | 116 | 15 | 51 | 9 |
| T20Is | 63 | 55 | 15 | 777 | 42* | 19.42 | 652 | 119.17 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 14 | 52 | 7 |
| FC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 5.00 | 6 | 83.33 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| List A | 61 | 56 | 9 | 1676 | 86 | 35.65 | 1919 | 87.33 | 0 | 15 | 132 | 18 | 64 | 10 |
| T20s | 64 | 56 | 16 | 778 | 42* | 19.45 | 653 | 119.14 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 14 | 52 | 7 |
Bowling
| FORMAT | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ODIs | 51 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| T20Is | 63 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| FC | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| List A | 61 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| T20s | 64 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Again, when his side was in a difficult situation against Bangladesh, he scored a match-winning innings of 68 off 89, which led to the team’s victory against Bangladesh by 87 runs in the 2023 Cricket World Cup, which took place at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. It was announced in May of 2024 that he would be leading the Netherlands team in the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup event that would take place in 2024. The captain of the Netherlands, Scott Edwards, stated that his team “weren’t up to the mark” on the day of the match against Bangladesh.
The Dutch suffered a costly loss at the hands of the Tigers, which substantially hindered their prospects of qualifying for the Super 8s. Before their match against Bangladesh on Thursday, June 13, the Netherlands chose their fate; but, after suffering a loss by 25 runs, they are no longer in control of their destiny. As a result of a disastrous death-over collapse (111/3 to 134/8), Edwards’ team was unable to meet the objective. This occurred after they had conceded 159 overs with the ball bowling first. To Bangladesh, credit is due. The way they played was quite impressive to me. We just did not meet the expectations in any of the three categories.
It was a matter of taking wickets. After Bangladesh’s defeat, Edwards expressed his regret that the team did not perform as well as they might have. In the first inning, the Dutch captain made a veiled reference to the fact that his team had lost the ball since they had allowed one more run than they had scored. As of Monday, the Royal Dutch Cricket Association confirmed that the experienced Scott Edwards would be leading the Netherlands in the Twenty20 World Cup, which will take place the following month.
