Nepal has created history in the very first match of T20I cricket of the ongoing Asian Games in China. Nepal team scored 314 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 20 overs against Mongolia. This is the biggest score in the history of International T20 so far.
Nepal Record
Nepal has become the first team to score 300 plus. At the same time, Kushal Malla, a batsman from Nepal, scored the fastest century in the history of T20. He has scored a hundred in just 34 balls. Apart from this, Deependra Singh has also done a big feat. He scored the fastest fifty of T20 in just 9 balls. Deependra hit 6 sixes in his first 6 balls. Deependra scored unbeaten 52 runs in 10 balls. He hit 8 sixes in this innings.
Yuvraj Singh’s record of fastest fifty broken
Nepal’s alrounder Deependra Singh broke the record of former Indian all-rounder Yuvraj Singh’s fastest fifty in T20. Yuvraj had scored fifty in 12 balls against England in the 2007 T20 World Cup. In the same match, Yuvraj hit 6 sixes in one over of Stuart Broad.
Scorecard
Nepal Score
- Kushal Bhurtel – 19 run, 23 ball, 2 four
- Aasif Sheikh – 16 run, 17 ball, 2 four
- Kushal Malla* – 137 run, 50 ball, 8 four, 12 six
- Rohit Poudel – 61 run, 27 ball, 2 four, 6 six
- Dipendra Singh Aree* – 52 run, 10 ball, 8 six
Mongolia Bowling Over/Run – Wicket
- Luvsanzundui Erdenebulgan 4/47 – 1
- Davaasuren Jamyansuren 4/60 – 1
- Mungun Altankhuyag 2/55 – 1
Mongolia Score
- Nyambaatar Naranbaatar – 1 run, 10 ball
- Buyantushig Terbish – 0 run, 2 ball
- Enkh-erdene Otgonbayar – 3 run, 12 ball
- Luvsanzundui Erdenebulgan (c) – 0 run, 2 ball
- Davaasuren Jamyansuren – 10 run, 23 ball, 2 four
- Od Lutbayar – 1 run, 2 ball
- Namsrai Bat-yalalt – 1 run, 9 ball
- Mungun Altankhuyag – 0 run, 9 ball
- Enkhtuvshin Munkhbat – 0 run, 5 ball
- Tumursukh Turmunkh – 2 run, 6 ball
- Tur-erdene Sumiya* – 0 run 1 ball
Nepal Bowling Over/Run – Wicket
- Sompal Kami 2/6 – 1
- Karan KC 2/1 – 2
- Abinash Bohara 2/2 – 2
- Sandeep Lamichhane 2/7 – 2
- Dipendra Singh Airee 2/2 – 1
- Kushal Bhurtel 0.1/0 – 1