Kathmandu. Nepal is facing the home team Netherlands in the 120th match of ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This match, to be held at the Sportpark Marshallkevert ground in Utrecht, Netherlands, is scheduled to start at 2:45 PM Nepali time.<\/p>\n
The average score of the team batting first in One Day International matches at this ground in Utrecht has been 192 runs, while the average score of the team batting second has been 140 runs. This ground statistic indicates that winning the toss and batting first could be advantageous.<\/p>\n
Looking at the current standings, the Netherlands is in third place in the competition with 16 teams participating, having secured 16 wins and 10 losses. On the other hand, Nepal is limited to sixth place with 11 wins and 18 losses.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the tournament so far, Dipendra Singh Airee is Nepal’s highest scorer with 790 runs, while Sandeep Lamichhane is at the top in bowling with 42 wickets. Similarly, Max O’Dowd has scored 969 runs for the Netherlands, while bowler Aryan Dutt has taken 42 wickets.<\/p>\n
Nepal was defeated by Namibia by a narrow margin of 3 runs in its last match. In that game, Nepal, chasing a target of 212 runs set by Namibia, could only manage 208 runs with all wickets lost as the overs neared completion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Although Nepal’s Asif Sheikh scored 45 runs and Kushal Bhurtel scored 34 runs, forming a 51-run opening partnership, the middle order could not perform, leading to Nepal’s defeat. Arif Sheikh’s unbeaten 38 runs were an attempt to secure victory but were unsuccessful. Before that, Namibia was restricted to 211 runs in 50 overs after Karan KC took 5 wickets.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the Netherlands is entering the field with high morale after defeating Namibia by a wide margin of 58 runs in their previous match. Batting first, the Netherlands scored 251 runs with the help of Bas de Leede’s 97 runs and Max O’Dowd’s 39 runs. In response, Namibia, chasing a target of 194 runs, was bowled out for 193.<\/p>\n
Nepal aims to end its losing streak by winning today’s match, while the home team Netherlands wants to continue its winning streak.<\/p>\n
Rohit Kumar Paudel (Captain), Dipendra Singh Airee (Vice-Captain), Kushal Bhurtel, Asif Sheikh, Ishan Pandey, Arif Sheikh, Gulshan Kumar Jha, Karan KC, Sompal Kami, Nandan Yadav, Sandeep Lamichhane, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi, Bhim Sarki, Arjun Kumal and Binod Bhandari.<\/p>\n
Scott Edwards (Captain), Alex Roy, Aryan Dutt, Bas de Leede, Cedric de Lange, Saqib Zulfiqar, Kyle Klein, Max O’Dowd, Lan van Beek, Noah Croes, Ryan Klein, Roelof van der Merwe, Tim Pringle, Vikramjit Singh and Jack Lion-Kassiyat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kathmandu. Nepal is facing the home team Netherlands in the 120th match of ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22523,22524,1531,21650,22521,89,21654,21649,21647,6,21648,21651,5126,22522],"class_list":["post-34544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-netherlands","tag-batting","tag-bowling","tag-cricket","tag-dipendra-singh-airee","tag-icc-world-cup-league-2","tag-match","tag-max-o","tag-namibia","tag-nepal","tag-netherlands","tag-odi","tag-sandeep-lamichhane","tag-score","tag-wickets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/netherlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}