Happily, cricket also has room for feisty, thoroughly human scrappers like Van der Merwe, who brings a high level of intensity to everything he does on the field. That's no accident: "It's ...

Roelof van der Merwe's breezy undefeated 39-ball 75 laid the platform for Netherlands' comfortable 49-run victory in the first T20I of the two-match series against Zimbabwe. The visitors ...

Netherlands will be without the experienced pair of Colin Ackermann and Roelof van der Merwe at the T20 World ... and played first-class and List A cricket for Netherlands as a teenager.