Thursday, October 8, 2015

Nepal to play Pakistan in 50-over diversion

 

Oct 9, 2015-Nepali national cricket group got a chance to play against Test-playing titans Pakistan in a 50-more than one-day match in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in front of their ICC World Cricket League Championship matches against Papua New Guinea (PNG).

It will be Nepal's first ever 50-over match against a Test-playing country. Nepal's just experience against a Test playing country was against Bangladesh yet it came in cricket's most brief arrangement amid the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 in Chittagong.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has set the match against Pakistan squad which will be facilitating England for three Tests,

four ODIs and three Twenty20 Internationals. Nepal will play Pakistan after the third Test between the two goliaths finishes up in Sharjah on November 8.

Mentor Pubudu Dassanayake affirmed about the conflict against Pakistan yet said he was uninformed of the way of Pakistan squad. "We are yet to get affirmation about the squad that we are going to play yet playing against even an "A" group from a Test-playing side is enormous open door for us," said Dassanayake. Before beginning the ODI arrangement on November 11, both England and Pakistan will play one practice coordinate each on November 8. Britain will tackle Hong Kong around the same time.

Since Nepal have a Division 2 status, the match against Pakistan will consider List "An" experience. Dassanayake, who will stop as Nepal mentor after PNG matches in November, said his side is eager to play against any semblance of Pakistan. "This is something we have been envisioning for quite a while. Playing against a Test squad will be a defining moment," included Dassanayake.

Nepal will play their two home matches against PNG under the WCL on November 16 and 18 in the UAE after ICC migrated the diversions refering to 'security reasons'. Aside from the match against Pakistan, Nepal are additionally planned to play two-day match against Hong Kong in Dubai slated for November 5 and 6. They will catch up the two-day diversion against Hong Kong by 50-over matches against Danube—a neighborhood corporate group comprising of expats—on November 10 and Oman on 14. The whole timetable for Nepal in front of the PNG matches has been orchestrated by ICC.

Dassanayake needs to make his last task with the Nepali national group a remarkable one. "We have been given a decent chance to tweak our execution against PNG. We need to win both matches against PNG as it will support the group's assurance before different installations in the WCL. "

Nepal had won themselves a chance to play the WCL in the wake of completing fourth in January's WCL Division 2. The WCL incorporates eight groups who will play two 50-over amusements in a round robin class. The main six groups from the WCL after the class will join four base groups from the ODI rankings in the 2019 ICC World Cup Qualifiers which will be held in Bangladesh.

Nepal have lost their first round of the WCL 2-0 away to Scotland and sit at second from the base. Aside from PNG and Scotland, Nepal will likewise play the UAE, Hong Kong, Namibia, the Netherlands and Kenya in the WCL.

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