🏏Asia Cup 2023: M5: India vs Nepal in SL on 04/09/2023 at 3PM IST 🏏 - Page 4

Nepal (Playing XI): Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh(w), Rohit Paudel(c), Bhim Sharki, Sompal Kami, Gulsan Jha, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Malla, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Lalit Rajbanshi

fin: "Absolutely amazing that the Asia cup simply *has* to get moved to a tropical country in monsoon season, surely this can't be in the best interests of the game? Again politics proves more important than cricket"

Started to drizzle when the coin was flipped.

Nepal (Playing XI): Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh(w), Rohit Paudel(c), Bhim Sharki, Sompal Kami, Gulsan Jha, Dipendra Singh Airee, Kushal Malla, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Lalit Rajbanshi

India (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma(c), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan(w), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj

2.39pm Now the covers are going off.

Bodh Acharya: "We were dreaming about playing against India when Nepal was playing division 6 in Bermuda in 2013 and after 10 years they achieved it. Forget about win or lose as a supporter of Nepali cricket we already won. Thank you Asia Cup."

Sachin: "With bowling first India could have gone with Shami, Siraj, Krishna " -- Thing is that playing those three plus Kuldeep would leave India with a really long tail.

14:40 Local Time, 09:10 GMT, 14:40 IST: The covers are being taken off now!

Originally posted by: Savera84

Did you know?

- Virat Kohli has a total of 34 runs from four innings at Pallekele with a best of 23.

- Mohammed Siraj has 26 PowerPlay wickets at 16.81 in ODIs since 2022

- Ravindra Jadeja has gone wicketless in 10 of the 22 ODI innings he's bowled in since the 2019 World Cup.

No I didn't know aur kabhi jaanne ki koshish bhi nahin ki

Praveen : "Do we really need no.8 batting depth (it's not great anyway? for today's match?" -- I see your point, but India would want to play the combination they're going to use at the World Cup, and give those players as much game time as possible to get used to their roles.