Nepal vs Scotland Scorecard: Batting first, Scotland has scored 170 runs. Both teams are out of the World Cup, but in the fight to save their reputation, Michael Jones played a fighting inning of 71 runs for Scotland. In this match being played at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, Nepal won the toss and chose to bowl first. Nepal’s bowlers made a tremendous comeback in the last overs.
Michael Jones and George Munsey gave a great start to Scotland, who came to bat first. There was an opening partnership of 80 runs between the two. Munsey was out after scoring 27 runs, on the other hand, Michael was the highest run scorer for Scotland. He played an inning of 71 runs in 45 balls.
Nepal’s tremendous comeback
At one time Scotland had scored 132 runs at the loss of just one wicket. There were about 5 overs left in the innings and Scotland could easily reach the score of 190. But in the last 5 overs, Nepal’s bowlers gave only 39 runs and dismissed 6 of Scotland’s batsmen. Scotland lost 6 wickets in the last 29 balls of the innings. Brendan McMullen contributed 25 runs.
Sompal Kami was the most successful bowler for Nepal, who took 3 wickets for 25 runs in 4 overs. Nandan Yadav took 2 wickets, while Rohit Poudel also contributed in bowling and took one wicket. Kushal Bhurtel was also successful in dismissing one batsman.
This is the last match of both Scotland and Nepal in Group C and both the teams are out of the World Cup. On one hand, Nepal would like to say goodbye to the World Cup tournament by registering at least one win, on the other hand, Scotland would like to end its World Cup campaign with 4 points.
