The cricket teams of Pakistan and Nepal reached Sri Lanka from Multan by chartered flight.
Pakistan team players will rest today. The Pakistani team will practice tomorrow before the big match. The teams of Pakistan and India will compete on Saturday.
Pakistan cricket team started the Asia Cup victoriously and defeated Nepal by 238 runs in the opening match.
The Asia Cup 2023 fair was held in Pakistan following 15 years, the first match of the event was played in Multan in which the host Pakistan and Nepal cricket teams competed.
In the opening match, the captain of the national cricket team Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bat first and the national team scored 342 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the allotted 50 overs.
Pakistan’s record partnership of captain Babar Azam and middle order batsman Iftikhar Ahmed played an important role in giving the big target.
Babar Azam played an innings of 151 runs off 131 balls, his innings included 14 fours and 4 sixes, while Iftikhar Ahmed scored 109 runs off 71 balls with the help of 11 fours and 4 sixes.
Among the other batsmen of the national team, Muhammad Rizwan scored 44 runs, Fakhr Zaman scored 14 runs, Imamul Haque and Agha Salman scored 5 and 5 runs respectively.
Sompal Kami dismissed two players for Nepal. In reply, the visiting team was restricted to only 104 runs in pursuit of the target of 343 runs and faced defeat in the match by a huge margin of 238 runs.
8 players of the Nepalese team might not enter even in double figures, Shadab Khan from Pakistan showed excellent bowling and dismissed 4 players while Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf took two catches each.
It should be noted that Asia Cup 2023 is being jointly hosted by Pakistan and Sri Lanka, 6 teams will compete in the event, it is happening for the first time in the history of cricket that Asia Cup is being hosted by more than one country.
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2024-07-10 07:10:36
