Kathmandu: Nepal is playing against home team Pakistan today in Asia Cup cricket. Multan’s Cricket Ground pitch is not new for Pakistan, but this ground and the pitch here are new for Nepal.
Multan’s pitch is the opposite when compared to Nepal’s home ground, TU Cricket Ground.
The pitch of TU Cricket Ground is a pitch that helps the bowler, so the team that won the toss in Kirtipur usually bowled first.
According to cricket coach Raju Basnet, around 2006, the Nepalese team played a practice match on this ground. It is hot and the ground here is batting friendly is Basnet says, ‘It is difficult to make runs in our Kirtipur. But that is a batting friendly ground. The boundary is also big.
The match between Nepal and Pakistan is a day night match. By the time the game starts (3:15 PM according to Nepal time), the pitch here is already dry. And since this is a scoring pitch, it can be beneficial for the team batting first.
In this ground built in 2001, 3 years later, Pakistan scored 323 runs against Bangladesh by losing 3 wickets. Which is the highest score ever.
In 2004, Zimbabwe were bowled out for 148 runs at this ground. The average run scored by the team batting first on this ground is 255.
Batting second on this ground, Pakistan found a target of 306 runs against West Indies in 2022. The 127 runs scored by Shahi Hope of the visiting team in this match is the highest score scored by any batsman on this ground.
This pitch is not considered a very pleasant pitch for the bowler. A bowler has to play very technically for a wicket.
After the ball is a bit old, spinners can run on this pitch. Sandeep Lamichhane and Lalit Rajwanshi will play the main roles in spin attack for Nepal. They can take advantage of this pitch.
After the ball is a bit old, spinners can run on this pitch. Sandeep Lamichhane and Lalit Rajwanshi will play the main roles in spin attack for Nepal. They can take advantage of this pitch.
Mohammad Nawaz of Pakistan scored 19 runs and took 4 wickets against the West Indies in 2022 on this ground. Which is the best performance of any bowler on this ground in one-day cricket.
Both teams squad
Nepal’s Probable Playing XI:
- Kushal Bhurtel,
- Asif Sheikh (wicketkeeper),
- Rohit Poudel (captain),
- Kushal Malla,
- Bhim Sarki,
- Dipendra Singh Airi,
- Gulsan Jha,
- Sompal Kami,
- Karan KC,
- Sandeep Lamichhane and
- Lalit Rajwanshi
Pakistan Playing 11:
- Babar Azam (captain),
- Shadab Khan (vice-captain),
- Fakhar Zaman,
- Imaal Ul Haq,
- Salman Ali,
- Iftikhar Ahmed,
- Mohammad Rizwan (wicket keeper),
- Mohammad Nawaz,
- Naseem Shah, ।Shaheen Shah Afridi and
- Harish Rauf
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