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India vs Nepal Scorecard, Match 5, Asia Cup 2023
Result · Sep 04 2023, Mon - 03:00 PM (IST)
NEPAL230
INDIA147/0
India won by 10 wickets (DLS Method)
CRR:7.29
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | Asia Cup |
| Date: | Sep 04 2023, Mon - 03:00 PM (IST) |
| Country: | Sri Lanka |
| City: | Kandy |
| Venue: | Pallekele International Cricket Stadium |
| Toss: | India won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| India Playing XI: | Rohit Sharma (c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj |
| Nepal Playing XI: | Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh (wk), Rohit Paudel (c), Sompal Kami, Gulshan Jha, Bhim Sharki, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Malla, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Lalit Rajbanshi |
- This will be the first meeting between India and Nepal in a men’s ODI; the last time India lost their first match against an opponent in the format was a 47-run loss against Sri Lanka (16 June 1979).
- Nepal have won just one of their last five men’s ODIs (L4), with their sole win during this phase coming against the United Arab Emirates (2 July 2023) by a three-wicket margin.
- India have lost just one of their last 11 completed men’s ODIs played in Sri Lanka (W10), with the sole loss in this span coming in their most recent such meeting by a three-wicket margin (vs Sri Lanka) on 23 July 2021.
- Nepal have lost two of their last 10 men’s ODIs played in Asia (W8), a 238-run loss against Pakistan in their most recent such match (30 August 2023) and a 68-run loss against the United Arab Emirates (2 March 2023) in the first game of this 10-game stretch.
- India have scored 70% of their runs via boundaries during the Powerplay phase in men’s ODIs played in 2023, the highest of all full-member sides to have played more than three matches this term; in fact, they have logged a boundary run share of less than 60% in the same phase in only three of their 13 matches this year.
- India have logged a bowling dot ball rate of 59% in men’s ODIs played in 2023, the highest of all full-member teams in the format.
- Kushal Bhurtel (994 runs) is six shy of becoming the third Nepal batter to score 1,000 runs in men’s ODIs; if he manages to log a 50+ score, it will be his eight such score in the format – only Aasif Sheikh (10) and Rohit Paudel (9) have logged more such scores than him.
- Virat Kohli (111) is one 50+ score away from tying Ricky Ponting (112) as the player with the third most such scores in men’s ODIs; the last time Kohli logged a 50+ score in the Asia Cup ODI tournament was a 136-run knock (vs Bangladesh) on 26 February 2014.
- Sandeep Lamichhane has logged a bowling average of 17.7 in men’s ODIs, the best of all Nepal bowlers to have bowled in more than one inning in the format; in fact, Lamichhane has failed to take a wicket in just two of his last ten innings in the format.
- Mohammed Siraj (India) has logged a bowling strike rate of 17.2 in men’s ODIs played in 2023, the highest of all bowlers from full-member sides (min. 40 overs bowled); in fact, he has failed to take a wicket in just one of his eight innings this year.