Nepal V Honkong | A road to Bangladesh
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To be honest as a die hard fan too, I never imagined Nepal will be facing Hongkong for a place in WT20 preliminary round which features Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. Lets forget tomorrow result, This itself is a great achievement. But as its in blood of human, you are never satisfied by what you have and want more. Thus we all Nepali fans are praying for a Nepal win and dreaming, yes we can be playing at Bangladesh in WT20.
How hard is to beat Hongkong?
Below i have show some of the matchs between Hongkong v Nepal
Previous encountered Nepal V Hongkong
- HK 114/9 (20 ov) NEPAL 115/8 (20 ov): NEPAL won in last ball, 2011 ACC T20
- NEPAL 115/9 (20 ov) HK 116/4 (20 ov): HK won in last ball, 2013 ACC T20
27 March 2013
Nepal 115/9 (20 overs) Hong Kong 116/4 (16.3 overs) – Hong Kong won by 6 wickets
Nadeem Ahmed spun the Nepali batsmen in a tangle to grab 3/18, as Nepal stuttered to 115. Irfan Ahmed and Nizakat Khan proceeded to thrash the Nepali spinners to give a comfortable win.
13 March 2012
Nepal 130/6 (20 overs) Hong Kong 102/9 (20 overs) – Nepal won by 28 runs
Paras Khadka struck 68 off 62 balls and Chandra Sawad ripped the Hong Kong top order to get Nepal a win.This was a first easy win for Nepal and the match was played in UAE (ICC T20 Qualifier last seasons)
Group A runner up(Hongkong) V Group B third(Nepal) | Nepal V Hongkong
We all know winning against inform Hongkong side who finish second only behind Ireland is not an easy task, but is it impossible..? No, last three results does not show it. In last three games Nepal has been victorious twice, once with huge margin, considering it was a T20 match. Especially ICC T20 Q 2012 victory(third one) will give Nepal confidence that they can win against the Honkong side. But when there's more than pride in stake, where there is chance to play in WT20 still truly on you can assume that opponents will be as inspired as we are. So playing games of such high magnitude wont be easy, especially considering it is biggest stage in World Cricket for Nepal.
Tommorow Nepal should bat well. Though a bit slow for T20 standard Khakurel is consistent. Paras Khadka is expected to do good, but the eyes will be again on Gyanendra Malla to do good. Nepal if bat well have more than good chances to win tommorow match and go to WT20 finals. Sagar Pun should bat down the order. Avinash Karn should be picked ahead of Amrit Bhattarai as Bhattarai has been wayward in this tournament. Jitendra Mukhiya, Basanta Regmi and Shakti Gauchan with Paras Khadka are expected to do what they have been doing in the tournament. But more than bowling, tommorow's result will be decided by batting performance of Nepal.
Team news Nepal V Hongkong
Hong Kong (probable): 1 Irfan Ahmed, 2 Waqas Barkat, 3 Jamie Atkinson (capt & wk), 4 Mark Chapman, 5 Nizakat Khan, 6 Babar Hayat, 7 Munir Dar, 8 Aizaz Khan, 9 Nadeem Ahmed, 10 Tanwir Afzal, 11 Haseeb Amjad
Nepal (probable) 1 Subhash Khakurel (wk), 2 Sagar Pun, 3 Gyanendra Malla, 4 Paras Khadka (capt), 5 Binod Bhandari, 6 Sharad Vesawkar, 7 Pradeep Airee, 8 Basant Regmi, 9 Shakti Gauchan, 10 Jitendra Mukhiya, 11 Amrit Bhattarai
Time and Live at | Nepal V Hongkong
Nepal vs Hongkong, 27th November, from 11:45 am,
Nepali viewers can watch the game live at NTV PLUS
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Match is live streamed at Escricinfo as well
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