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India vs Nepal Asian Games 2022 Quarter-final Highlights: India defeated Nepal by 23 runs to enter semi-final. Nepal finished with 179/9 in 20 overs, giving India a real scare but regular wickets meant they fell short of the target. Nepal lost opener Aasif Sheikh early in chase of 203. R Sai Kishore then got rid of the other opener Kushal Bhurtel for his maiden T20I wicket.
Handy innings from their middle order and lower order batters though kept the contest alive. Earlier, Yashasvi Jaiswal hit a superb maiden T20I century – 100 off 49 – before Rinku Singh provided the finishing touch with 37 not out to help India to 202/4 against Nepal.
India captain Ruturaj Gaikwad won the toss and elected to bat first. Jaiswal and Gaikwad stitched a century stand before Nepal hit back with quick blows. However, Jaiswal continued to hit boundaries, completed his century and once he departed, Rinku ensured the team ends up with a big total.
Ruturaj Gaikwad-led India will kick open their campaign in the Asian Games 2022 on Tuesday, squaring off against Nepal in the quarterfinal at the Zhejiang University of Technology Pingfeng Cricket Field in Hangzhou, China.
Opening batter Ruturaj Gaikwad will lead the young Indian team in the competition which will be played in the T20 format. India entered the tournament as firm favourites and were pre-qualified for the quarter-finals by virtue of their ICC rankings. The Indian men’s team, which is making an Asian debut, is studded with the superstars of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The likes of Rinku Singh, Rahul Tripathi, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tilak Varma have recently had a taste of international cricket are will be raring to go in the race for the gold.
At the same time, the likes of Washington Sundar, Avesh Khan and Arshdeep Singh are comparatively senior figures in the side. It will also be interesting to see who among Jitesh Sharma and Prabhsimran Singh bags the wicketkeeper-batter spot.
On the other hand, Nepal made headlines with their historic feat against Morocco. Nepal became the first men’s team in history to score more than 300 runs in T20 international cricket on Wednesday as they rewrote the record books against Mongolia at the Asian Games.
They bludgeoned 314-3 in their 20 overs in Hangzhou, beating the previous highest of 278-3 by Afghanistan against Ireland in 2019.
Kushal Malla, batting number three, led the way by crashing the fastest T20 international century, off 34 balls. He beat the previous quickest, by South African David Miller in 35 balls against Bangladesh in 2017, and went on to finish on 137 not out off just 50 balls. He smacked 12 sixes and eight fours.
After getting defeated by Rohit Sharma & Co last month in the Asia Cup, Nepal will look to bounce back against a second-string side to level score, no matter what the format is.
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