Pallekele, Sep 5: In the match between India and Nepal played in Asia Cup 2023, India defeated Nepal by 10 wickets by DLS method and made its place in Super 4.
India’s caption Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bowl first in the match and invited Nepal to bat.
His openers Kushal Bhurtel and Aasif Sheikh, who came to open from Nepal, both gave a very powerful start to Nepal’s innings.Although India got 3 chances in the first 5 overs, which India missed by dropping the catch, in the first over of the game, Iyer dropped the catch in the slip on Shami’s ball, after which Virat Kohli dropped the catch on the first ball of the second over. The matter did not stop there, Ishaan Kisan also dropped an easy catch in the fourth over.
However, in the last over of the power play, Thakur dismissed Kushal Bhurtel and opened the account of his team’s wicket.
After this, Nepal kept losing their wickets continuously after the interval and their innings ended on 230 runs in 48 overs.
For Nepal, Aasif Sheikh scored 58 (97) and Sompal Kami scored 48 (56), while for India, Ravindra Jadeja and Siraj took 3 wickets each.
Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill, who came to start India’s second innings, were pushing the ball very well when after 2 overs rain came and play was stopped.
After raining for a long time, the rain stopped but by then the DLS method had been implemented in the match and the number and runs had been worked out.
India needed 145 runs in 23 overs to win.
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A few overs after the start of the game, Rohit Sharma’s catch was dropped on Sandeep Lamichhane’s ball, after which Rohit Sharma took advantage of this opportunity by jamming it and completing his half-century.
Rohit and Shubman won the game without falling any wickets. Rohit Sharma scored 74(59) and Shubman Gill 67(62) from India.
Rohit Sharma was selected as PLAYER OF THE MATCH from India.
With this win, India confirmed their place in the Super 4. Apart from India, Pakistan qualified in India’s group.
Now India’s next match will be played against Pakistan on the 10th.
