A first-class match is of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officially adjudged to be worthy of the status by virtue of the standard of the competing teams.
[2] In 2004 Netherlands first played first-class cricket in the ICC Intercontinental Cup, drawing with Scotland in Aberdeen and then going down to an innings defeat against Ireland in Deventer.
[3][4] Netherlands played 33 first-class matches in total, with majority of them against Ireland and Scotland.
[6][7] Captain Peter Borren is also the Netherlands' leading run-scorer at first-class level, aggregating 1331 runs.
[12] On the contrary, Timm van der Gugten has the best bowling figures in an innings representing Netherlands, who picked up 7 wickets conceding 68 runs against Namibia in 2013.