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Match 24 | ETPL 2026 | Malahide Cricket Ground (The Village), Dublin | 13 September 2026
There’s no actual loss to avenge; Match 4 between these two sides never got a ball bowled, washed out completely by rain back in August. What Amsterdam Flames really face on Sunday is a first real examination against a team that’s beaten everyone else in this competition. Edinburgh have won every completed game they’ve played this season, and Amsterdam sit fourth with a squad capable of far more than their table position suggests. Malahide will finally settle a rivalry that rain took away the first time around.
Whatever this article’s headline suggests, there’s no defeat sitting on Amsterdam’s record against Edinburgh. Match 4, played back on August 28 in Voorburg, was abandoned without a single ball being bowled after persistent rain.
Edinburgh had won the toss and chosen to field, but the weather never allowed a contest to start. Both sides were awarded one point each for the no result, and that remains the only previous meeting between these two clubs in this competition. So Match 24 isn’t a rematch in any real sense; it’s the first time these two teams will actually get to play out a completed game against each other.
Everything about this fixture carries more weight than a typical midweek group game. One side is unbeaten through seven matches, the other is fighting to climb clear of a congested midtable, and Malahide has quietly become the tournament’s business end venue.
Every match from Match 18 onward has been staged at this ground, which means both squads arrive already familiar with a surface that’s produced some big totals and some tight finishes this season. There’s no toss-of-a-coin unpredictability left; teams know exactly what Malahide gives them by this stage of the competition. That familiarity cuts both ways, though: Edinburgh have thrived here while Amsterdam’s away form on bigger stages has been noticeably shakier.
The table doesn’t lie about where these two sides sit right now.
| Team | Played | Points | Record | NRR |
| Edinburgh Castle Rockers | 7 | 13 | 6W 0L 1NR | +2.240 |
| Belfast Wolves | 7 | 9 | 4W 2L 1NR | -0.066 |
| Rotterdam Dockers | 7 | 9 | 4W 2L 1NR | -0.129 |
| Amsterdam Flames | 7 | 7 | 3W 3L 1NR | +0.230 |
| Dublin Guardians | 7 | 2 | 1W 6L 0NR | -0.908 |
| Glasgow Cosmic | 7 | 2 | 1W 6L 0NR | -1.158 |
Edinburgh sit alone at the top on 13 points and haven’t lost a single completed game all tournament. Amsterdam are fourth on 7, level on points with nobody but still very much inside the chase for a top-four finish if results go their way. Belfast and Rotterdam sit tied on 9 points just behind Edinburgh, which means the top of this table could still shuffle before the tournament reaches its final stretch.
Amsterdam’s season has revolved around two names doing most of the heavy lifting. Bas de Leede leads the batting with 196 runs at an average of 65.33, the best mark among the top five run-scorers in the tournament, built on two fifty-plus knocks including 75 off 53 balls against Rotterdam.
Tim Pringle has quietly become the club’s most important bowler, with five wickets across the tournament, enough to pass Kyle Klein’s previous mark of three and become Amsterdam’s leading wicket-taker in T20 cricket for the franchise.
Edinburgh’s story is less about individual standout numbers and more about total control; six wins from seven games speak for themselves. JJ Smuts’s 98 against Belfast Wolves and Tom Curran’s four-wicket hauls have both turned up when the team needed them most.
Strip away the abandoned match and the head-to-head column here is really a blank slate, but the current form gap is not.
| Metric | Edinburgh Castle Rockers | Amsterdam Flames |
| Points | 13 | 7 |
| Net Run Rate | +2.240 | +0.230 |
| Record (7 played) | 6W 0L 1NR | 3W 3L 1NR |
| Result in earlier meeting | No result, abandoned | No result, abandoned |
Every one of Edinburgh’s seven wins this season backs up a net run rate that dwarfs Amsterdam’s, and that gap matters more heading into Sunday than anything that happened, or didn’t happen, back in Voorburg. Malahide will decide what the numbers around Edinburgh Castle Rockers vs Amsterdam Flames ETPL 2026 actually look like once a ball is finally bowled between these two sides.
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When did these two teams last play each other?
Their only previous meeting was abandoned without a ball bowled. Rain washed out Match 4 in Voorburg back on August 28, and both sides took a point each.
Who is currently top of this T20 competition’s table?
Edinburgh sit top with 13 points from seven matches. They remain the only unbeaten side in the competition, with six wins and a single no result from seven matches played.
What is the top team’s current net run rate this season?
Their net run rate sits at plus 2.240 as of September 11. An earlier snapshot had it closer to plus 3.052, but the more recent figure is the accurate one.
Where is Match 24 of this T20 tournament being played?
It’s being staged at Malahide Cricket Ground, also known as The Village, in Dublin. Every fixture from Match 18 onward has been played at this same venue.
What time does this weekend’s big Malahide fixture actually start?
The match starts at 10:30am local time on September 13. That’s 3:00pm in India and 9:30am GMT for anyone following the tournament from further afield.
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