2020 Netherlands Quadrangular Series

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2020 Netherlands Quadrangular Series
Dates18 – 30 June 2020
Administrator(s) Koninklijke Nederlandse Cricket Bond (KNCB)
Cricket format One-Day International (ODIs)
Host(s)Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Participants4

The 2020 Netherlands Quadrangular Series was a cricket tournament that was scheduled to take place in June 2020 in the Netherlands. [1] [2] The series would have been played between the Netherlands, Namibia, Oman and the United States, with all the matches played as One Day Internationals (ODIs). [3] [4] [5] However, on 22 April 2020, the Dutch government announced that it had banned all events in the country, both sports and cultural, until 1 September 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [6] [7]

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