Extremely important match between Nepal and Netherlands has started at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur. This is the last match of the first series in ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2. Both the teams are essentially fighting for the second position, as Namibia made it to the top after winning 3 out of 4 matches. There are a total of 24 series, and the next one involves United Arab Emirates, Canada and Scotland (to start by end of this month). Each team need to participate in 12 series.
And an extreme disappointing batting performance from Nepal side. If Nepal batters keep playing like that then they will always remain an associate and can never get a test status. Nepal after 42 overs and 133 and that's only becasue Kushal Bhurtel scored 66 runs before getting out by Roelof van der Merwe. We saw good effort from Nepal bowlers in previous games against Namibia but due to low target there efforts went in vain.
Yes, even in today's match, the batting line of the Nepal team is very bad. Nepal team batted in the first innings and collected 172 runs in 49.3 overs losing all the wickets. While Nepal batsman Kushal Vurtel managed to get through a somewhat long innings, the rest of the batsmen failed miserably. Kushal Vurtel managed to collect 66 runs off 93 balls. The bowlers of the opposing Netherlands team put the batsmen of the Nepal team under severe pressure. Due to which the batsmen of the Nepal team failed to play the balls of the bowlers of the Netherlands team. If the batsmen of the Nepal team could have controlled the balls of the bowlers of the Netherlands team and played properly, then the Nepal team could have scored more. According to me it is very difficult for Nepal team to win the match against Netherlands by 172 runs. Now it is impossible to say how strong the bowling of the Nepalese team will be in the second innings. Now let's see how strong the bowlers of Nepal team can bowl.
Nepal team has given a target of 173 runs in today's match. Nepal's batsmen are not in good form. However, Nepal won the previous match against Netherlands. So I thought maybe they can play well in today's match. But the team has given a target of only 173 runs.
Apart from opener Kushal, no other batsman can stay at the crease for long. Kushal collected 66 runs. Besides, Karan managed to collect 26 runs and Aarif 22 runs. Netherlands bowlers Vivian Kingma and Aaryan took 3 wickets each.
The two openers of Netherlands are batting very responsibly. In 8 overs, the collection of Netherlands is 55 runs. The team has not lost a single wicket yet. The team needs only 118 runs to win. As Netherlands have not lost a single wicket yet. The Netherlands players probably won't have any problem today to win the match.