Max ODowd

After the family returned to New Zealand, he kept playing Dutch age-group cricket, turning out for both the under 15 and under 19 teams. His senior debut came in 2015 against Papua New Guinea, in the Netherlands' first match of the last Intercontinental Cup, and two weeks later he won his first T20I cap in a bilateral series against Nepal. Viewed at first as a T20 prospect, he was part of the squad that came through the 2015 T20 Qualifier and was also selected for the 2016 World T20, where the Dutch went out in the preliminary round without him playing a match.

Despite the unusual look of his set-up, he moves into a fairly conventional stance before the ball arrives. He tends to play cautiously early on and is most effective hitting straight. In 2017 he scored a first-class hundred against Ireland in the Netherlands' second-to-last Intercontinental Cup game, and he averages above 40 in red-ball cricket, but the competition was abolished later that year, bringing his career in whites for the Dutch to an end.

By then he was living in the Netherlands again, opening for VOC Rotterdam during the northern summer and appearing fairly regularly for the national side, though usually lower in the order. Because the Dutch had lost their status in 2014, his official ODI debut did not come until 2019, when he opened against Zimbabwe and made 86 not out. A strong run of form followed, establishing him as the first-choice white-ball opener. Sixteen months on, he became the first Dutchman to reach three figures in men's T20Is, with an unbeaten 133 off 73 against Malaysia in Kathmandu.

At a disastrous 2021 T20 World Cup for the Netherlands, his fifties against Ireland and Namibia were the team's only bright spots. The Dutch fared better at the next edition, where two further half-centuries, against Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, earned the notice of the Chattogram Challengers, who picked him for the 2023 BPL.