PAK vs NEP, Asia Cup, Match 1: The battle for Asia’s largest cricketing crown is about to get underway as hosts Pakistan are slated to tackle Nepal within the opening fixture on Wednesday, August 30 on the Multan Cricket Stadium in Multan.
Pakistan have already introduced their taking part in XI which supplies a good quantity of indication of how assured they’re about their recreation and sealing the match opener. The Babar Azam-led aspect is at present the top-ranked workforce in ODI cricket having surged previous Australia lately and would look to play like a high aspect towards their opponents within the first recreation.
For Nepal, it is going to be the primary time they are going to be taking part in within the continental match however cannot be taken frivolously. The Rohit Paudel-led aspect gained the ten-team ACC Males’s Premier Cup in April-Might to make it to this 12 months’s version of the Asia Cup and appear effectively and actually able to pulling off a shock or two. The match will begin at 3:00 PM IST and the climate goes to be sizzling all through the day with the temperature starting from 35°C to 38°C.
Multan Cricket Stadium Pitch Report
As with all different wicket in Pakistan or the Indian subcontinent, the wicket on the venue goes to be batting pleasant and the pacers may need to toil arduous to get buy out of it. For the unversed, it’s the identical floor the place India’s Virender Sehwag scored his first-ever triple ton in Check cricket whereas taking part in towards Pakistan.
Multan Cricket Stadium: The Numbers Recreation
Complete ODI Matches: 10
Matches gained batting first: 5
Matches gained bowling first: 5
Common first innings rating: 254
Common second innings rating: 206
Highest complete scored: 323/3 by Pakistan vs Bangladesh
Highest rating chased: 306/5 by Pakistan vs West Indies
Lowest complete recorded: 148 all out by Zimbabwe vs Pakistan
Lowest complete defended: 272/9 by Pakistan vs Zimbabwe
Pakistan’s Taking part in XI:
Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf
Nepal’s seemingly XI:
Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh (wk), Bhim Sharki, Rohit Paudel (c), Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gulsan Jha, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Lalit Rajbanshi
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