Player of the Match
Player of the Match
  • BATSMEN
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    9.5 Shardul Thakur: golden arm. Strikes in his first over. On a good length and seams away against the inward angle. Bhurtel fiddles with it and edges it behind to Kishan, who makes no mistake this time. Relief for India 65/1
    29.5 caught at short cover! Kohli makes amends for his mistake earlier in the innings. He was rushing the batter. Standing close in, he wanted to prevent chances of a single. The ball though was starting to balloon over him. Siraj's angle into the right-hander had Aasif playing into the leg side, but then the nip off the pitch takes the leading edge and loops up. Kohli spots it, moves to his right, leaps up, stretches a hand out over his head and comes up with a good grab 132/5
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    41.17
    15.6 got him, the two-paced pitch does its thing. Flights this wide of off stump, and Sharki goes for the angled-bat cover drive with a lot of bottom hand. Only succeeds in inside-edging into his stumps 77/2
    19.6 terrific catch from Rohit! Goes back to a length ball and looks to punch through the covers. Doesn't turn a lot, but he ends up playing slightly inside the line, and gets a thick edge that flies quickly towards Rohit's left thigh at slip. Takes it well - had very little reaction time there 93/3
    21.5 Chipped to Siraj at mid-off! The spinners are doing the job for India. Fullish and darted across off stump from left-arm around. Malla aims to go over Siraj, but does not find enough elevation. 101/4
    31.5 caught behind. Simple stuff from a class fast bowler. He pitches it up. It's cross-seam. Jha comes on the drive because he's been pretty happy to milk the angle across him. This time though all he manages is an edge through to Kishan 144/6
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    116.00
    41.1 offcutter, and he's beaten Airee comprehensively here. Quick lbw decision, and the batter has reviewed it. Was looking to flick it without really moving his feet, and the offcutter slid past his inside edge to strike his pad. Looks quite plumb, striking him just inside the line of off stump and going on to hit middle stump according to ball-tracking. Lovely bit of bowling from Hardik to catch Airee off-balance 194/7
    47.2 gone, that's an excellent catch from Kishan diving to his right. Shortish, rising ball in the corridor, and it gets big on Kami as he looks to steer it down to deep third. Thick edge, and it continues rising as Kishan throws himself to his right, so he has to raise his arms mid-dive to complete the catch 228/8
    47.4 Nine down. Slower ball outside off, and Lamichhane begins running as soon as he slaps it to the left of Axar at extra-cover. Maybe he doesn't factor in the fact that Axar is left-handed. He's halfway down the pitch when he begins to turn back, and by then it's too late 229/9
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    100.00
    48.2 bowled him, that's that. Nepal are all out for 230. Full, angling into off stump, and Rajbanshi plays entirely down the wrong line while attempting a wristy cover drive 230/10
    Extras
    9 (lb 6, w 3)
    TOTAL
    230 all out (48.2 Overs, RR: 4.75)
    Fall of wickets: 1-65 (Kushal Bhurtel, 9.5 ov), 2-77 (Bhim Sharki, 15.6 ov), 3-93 (Rohit Paudel, 19.6 ov), 4-101 (Kushal Malla, 21.5 ov), 5-132 (Aasif Sheikh, 29.5 ov), 6-144 (Gulsan Jha, 31.5 ov), 7-194 (Dipendra Singh Airee, 41.1 ov), 8-228 (Sompal Kami, 47.2 ov), 9-229 (Sandeep Lamichhane, 47.4 ov), 10-230 (Lalit Rajbanshi, 48.2 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEcon0s4s6sWDNB
    Mohammed Shami702914.14272010
    Mohammed Siraj9.216136.53338210
    HH Pandya833414.25343110
    SN Thakur402616.50132100
    RA Jadeja1004034.00291000
    Kuldeep Yadav1023403.40392000

Match Notes

Asia Cup (ODI)

Super Four
TeamMWLPTNRR
IND32141.753
SL3214-0.134
BAN3122-0.463
PAK3122-1.283
Group A
TeamMWLPTNRR
PAK21034.76
IND21031.028
NEP2020-3.572
Group B
TeamMWLPTNRR
SL22040.594
BAN21120.373
AFG2020-0.91