The first match of the Asia Cup 2023 tournament is being played between Nepal and Pakistan. At the same time, in this match, the Pakistan team won the toss and decided to bat. Meanwhile, when both the teams came on the field for the national anthem, the supporters of both the teams looked very excited. If you look at the statistics, the Pakistan team looks very heavy on Nepal. The reason for which is that the Pakistan team is at number-1 in the ODI rankings. Whereas Nepal’s team is present at 15th place in the ranking. Despite this, the way Nepal’s excellent bowling and fielding was done in the first 10 overs of the match, it did not appear that Nepal’s team is playing in the tournament for the first time.
Due to the excellent bowling of Nepal, the decision of the Pakistan team to bat first appeared to be proved wrong in the initial overs. Due to which the Pakistan team lost two important wickets in the first 6 overs. These players who got out include the wickets of both the openers of the Pakistan team. Fakhar Zaman became the victim of Karan KC by scoring 14 runs, then Imam-ul-Haq returned to the pavilion after being run out. Imam was sent to the pavilion by Nepal team captain Rohit Paudel with a brilliant direct throw.
In the initial 10 overs, Nepal’s team may have been successful in creating pressure on Pakistan, but in the situation of crisis for the Pakistan team, Pakistani captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan once again became the troubleshooters. Who not only took the Pakistan team out of difficult times by sharing a tremendous partnership of 88 runs, but also took the team’s score beyond 100 runs. In this match, the Pakistan team had just started dominating Nepal, then an incident happened which enraged the Pakistani captain and the fans. In fact, when Pakistan’s score was 113 runs at the loss of 2 wickets, Rizwan was a little careless while running a run, due to which before reaching the crease, Deependra Singh Airi threw the ball directly towards the wicket and this ball was accurately hit. Hit the target. Due to which the runs which could be completed easily could not be scored and Pakistan had to lose its important wicket in the form of Rizwan.
Even after reaching very close to the crease line, Rizwan did not keep his bat on the crease line, the result of which was that the Pakistan team had to lose the third wicket in the form of Rizwan. After this mistake of Rizwan, who lost his wicket so easily, the captain Babar Azam, who was standing on the non-striker, got very angry and after this, Babar got angry and hit him by throwing his cap on the field. This reaction of Babar was enough to show that such carelessness in a big match can prove to be very harmful for the team. After Rizwan was out, there was silence among the Pakistan supporters. In this match, Mohammad Rizwan played an inning of 44 runs in 50 balls, in which he also hit 6 fours.
