{"id":18944,"date":"2023-08-30T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18944"},"modified":"2023-08-30T22:53:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T17:53:47","slug":"asia-cup-2023-pakistan-thrash-nepal-to-win-opening-match-by-238-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/uncategorized\/asia-cup-2023-pakistan-thrash-nepal-to-win-opening-match-by-238-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2023: Pakistan thrash Nepal to win opening match by 238 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MULTAN: Pakistan defeated Nepal by a whopping 238 runs in the opening match of the Asia Cup 2023 at Multan Cricket Stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts played a complete match and dominated the visitors in all aspects of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan continued their excellent form after entering the Asia Cup on a high as they topped the ICC rankings for ODI teams on Saturday after a 3-0 clean sweep over Afghanistan in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pakistan register a massive victory to start off their Asia Cup campaign \ud83d\udcaa<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/PAKvNEP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PAKvNEP<\/a> | \ud83d\udcdd: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1gff7IhTyI\">https:\/\/t.co\/1gff7IhTyI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q5RMdNchlB\">pic.twitter.com\/Q5RMdNchlB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ICC\/status\/1696914840575524944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shadab Khan took four wickets for his side for just 27 runs and was the key to the Green Shirts&#8217; big-margin victory as the visitors were all out on 104 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Rizwan&#8217;s blinder behind the wicket and Fakhar Zaman&#8217;s stunning catch were the highlights of the second innings of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen Shah Afridi did what he does best as he sent two Nepali batters back to the pavilion in the first over.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the first innings, Pakistan posted a massive total of 342-6 in 50 overs after winning the toss and deciding to bat first.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Babar Azam and Iftikhar Ahmed led the way for Pakistan with brilliant centuries.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed remained unbeaten on 109 runs in 71 balls with the help of 11 fours and four sixes.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Azam was dismissed after scoring 151 runs in 131 balls which included 14 fours and four sixes.<\/p>\n<p>Azam, 28, broke former South Africa batter Hashim Amla&#8217;s record as he became the fastest player to 19 ODI centuries. He reached this feat in just 102 innings while Amla did it in his 104th.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Babar Azam came to bat after Pakistan had an early collapse as they were 25-2 after Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq lost their wickets.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old stood tall on the crease and formed a crucial 86-run partnership with Mohammad Rizwan before the wicketkeeper batter got run out in a bizarre way. Rizwan scored 44 runs in 50 balls.<\/p>\n<p>After Rizwan lost his wicket, Salman Agha (5) came to bat he, too, did not last long and lost his wicket while attempting a reverse-sweep shot to Nepal&#8217;s Sandeep Lamichhane.<\/p>\n<p>After Agha&#8217;s wicket, Azam formed a solid partnership of 214 runs in only 131 balls with Iftikhar Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal, as a team, and Multan, as a venue, made their debut in the Asia Cup. It was also the first match between Pakistan and Nepal at the top level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lineups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nepal: Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh (wk), Rohit Paudel (c), Aarif Sheikh, Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gulsan Jha, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Lalit Rajbanshi<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MULTAN: Pakistan defeated Nepal by a whopping 238 runs in the opening match of the Asia Cup 2023 at Multan Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. The hosts played a complete match and dominated the visitors in all aspects of the game. Pakistan continued their excellent form after entering the Asia Cup on a high as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8884,8125,301,138],"class_list":["post-18944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asia-cup-2023","tag-nepal","tag-icc","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}