The Italy team, playing in the T20 World Cup for the first time, has restricted Nepal to 123 runs. The pitch of Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium has not yet supported the batsmen as much as it has been doing. Till now, a score of 200 has not been made here in the entire tournament. This is the same Nepal team, which came very close to defeating England, but the Italian bowlers restricted them to only 123 runs.
In this match being played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Italy won the toss and decided to bowl first. When Nepal team came to bat, captain Rohit Poudel contributed 23 runs, Asif Sheikh contributed 20 runs and Arif Sheikh contributed 27 runs. Apart from him, no batsman from Nepal could play a big innings. Nepal lost its last 7 wickets in just 30 runs.
bad condition of nepal
Just four days ago, Nepal had almost defeated England. England was somehow able to win that match by a close margin of 4 runs. In that match, Rohit Poudel, Deependra Singh Ari and Lokesh Bam played well, but none of these players could play a big innings against Italy.
7 wickets within 30 runs
At one time in the 14th over, Nepal team had scored 93 runs at the loss of 3 wickets. There were 7 wickets in hand, 6 overs left and a solid partnership could have taken Nepal to the score of 150. But after this the Italian bowlers dismissed the last 7 batsmen of Nepal within just 30 runs.
Ben Mananti’s spell is in the news for Italy, who took two wickets for only 9 runs in 4 overs. Whereas Krishan Kalulamage took maximum 3 wickets for the team and gave only 18 runs in 4 overs.
