The Black Caps of New Zealand earned back-to-back wins at the Cricket World Cup in India with a 99-run against the Netherlands in Hyderabad on Monday.

New Zealand had a bat first and scored 322/8 in their 50-overs with Will Young scoring 70 while the captain Tom Latham scored 53.

The former Proteas and Titans allrounder, Roelof van der Merwe, was the pick of the Dutch bowlers with 2/56.

Despite a valiant 69-runs by the George-born Colin Ackerman, the Dutch were bowled out for 223 with the spinner Mitchell Santner claiming 5/59 in his 10-overs.

Santner said at the World Cup it’s important to focus on the next game after a win.

“Yes, obviously a nice start. We knew that turning up today after the highs of beating England, we couldn't get too complacent,” said Santner.

“We know the Netherlands are a good team and they almost touched up Pakistan the other day, so it was obviously nice to get the win.

“It's another two points, but you got to move on pretty quickly in this tournament.

On his bowling the spinner felt that he didn’t bowl as well as he did in Ahmedabad when he previously took a five-wicket haul, but added that as a collective the bowling unit did well.

“It was obviously nice to get the rewards. I don't think I bowled as well as I did in Ahmedabad.

“Probably missed a little bit more, but it was nice to keep trying to be aggressive and get wickets. I guess that's the only way we can kind of slow the batters down in the middle of the ODI innings, is to take wickets.

“I thought, as a bowling unit, we did that very well. Guys coming back, still being aggressive, trying to take wickets, and managed to chip them out along we went. And it was nice to get the win in the end.”

Meanwhile on Tuesday at 10:30 Pakistan will face Sri Lanka at the same venue.

Morgan Piek OFM Sport