Derk Adriaan Rijkens (born 16 December 1975) is a former Dutch international

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er who represented the Dutch national side in several matches in 1998. He played as a right-handed middle-order batsman. Rijkens was born in

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, and played his club cricket for HCC.Miscellaneous matches played by Derk Rijkens
– CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 April 2016. He made his senior debut for the Netherlands on a tour of England in June 1998, which included a friendly against

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) and a

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match against

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. In the game against Somerset, which held

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status, he came in seventh in the batting order, scoring 12 runs before being dismissed by Graham Rose.Somerset v Netherlands
National Westminster Bank Trophy 1998 (1st Round) – CricketArchive. Retrieved 17 April 2016. Later in the year, Rijkens also represented the Netherlands in a one-day match against

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(on its way to a tour of England), as well in a single match at the European Championship.

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