T20I Men's World Cup, Game 25, Group C Nepal v West Indies 15/2 1600hrs @ Wankhede Stadium

[Gough]

Nepal from, Rohit Paudel (c), Dipendra Singh Airee, Sandeep Lamichhane, Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh, Sundeep Jora, Aarif Sheikh, Basir Ahamad, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Nandan Yadav, Gulshan Jha, Lalit Rajbanshi, Sher Malla, Lokesh Bam
West Indies from, Shai Hope (c), Shimron Hetmyer, Johnson Charles, Roston Chase, Matthew Forde, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Shamar Joseph, Brandon King, Gudakesh Motie, Rovman Powell, Sherfane Rutherford, Quentin Sampson, Jayden Seales, Romario Shepherd

 

[PhatBoy]

Get it done lads

 

[Plugger35]

Danger game for the Windies if the Nepal that played England turns up.

If the Nepal that played Italy turns up it should be an easy win for them.

 

[Cleavy]

Windies fielding first

 

[Plugger35]

It looks like the Nepal that played Italy has turned up.

 

[Cleavy]

5/46 in the 11th over is tough to defend

 

[PhatBoy]

It looks like the Nepal that played Italy has turned up.

Or the West Indies that played England and Scotland has….

#favourites

 

[Plugger35]

Nepal need to at least bat out the 20 overs but even if they do they will probably only get a score of around 120 at best.

Or the West Indies that played England and Scotland has….

#favourites

Your mob has played well so far, they are shaping up as a dark horse in this tournament

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[PhatBoy]

Nepal need to at least bat out the 20 overs but even if they do they will probably only get a score of around 120 at best.



Your mob has played well so far, they are shaping up as a dark horse in this tournament

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Hope got a bit too far ahead of himself in the last two overs trying to finish the innings off rather than keep the field back

 

[PhatBoy]

Good stand from these two

 

[Permission Capable]

5/46 in the 11th over is tough to defend

A shame as they've finished very well with 1/80 off the next 8. Windies still probably get it in 12 overs.

 

[Plugger35]

A good last couple of overs for Nepal, they have already got over 120 and could get around 140 with an over to go.

 

[PhatBoy]

probably the perfect sort of score for King and Hope to have a go at.

If they fail it’s actually probably the perfect sort of score for Nepal to defend because outside of Chase the rest of the batsmen only know one gear to bat in so you just never know

 

[Cleavy]

finished on 8/133. at least it's something to defend

 

[PhatBoy]

Hetty

 

[Plugger35]

Run chases don't get much more pedestrian than this, the Windies have barely needed to get out of first gear chasing this total.

 

[PhatBoy]

Competition favourites first through to the next stage of the tournament

On a serious note while I don’t think we are a legitimate podium team who are fit to be considered a ‘contender’ alongside India, SA and to an extent NZ, I’m starting to think that the class of Hope, and the weaponry of Hetmeyer, Rutherford and Powell juuuust gives us a tiny sniff of winning the thing.

We have the tools that if it all fell into place and maybe one of those other teams did us a favour and knocked another one out, we could win the thing.

 

[Plugger35]

I don't see any reason the Windies can't go all the way and win it, they have a good deep batting line up and a bowling attack with plenty of variety in terms of pace and spin.

That being said they haven't been tested by any really strong teams yet, not sure you can call England a strong team when they nearly got beaten by Nepal who even Italy thrashed.

The Super 8 will stage will tell us more about where the Windies sit amongst the genuine contenders.

 

[PhatBoy]

I don't see any reason the Windies can't go all the way and win it, they have a good deep batting line up and a bowling attack with plenty of variety in terms of pace and spin.

That being said they haven't been tested by any really strong teams yet, not sure you can call England a strong team when they nearly got beaten by Nepal who even Italy thrashed.

The Super 8 will stage will tell us more about where the Windies sit amongst the genuine contenders.

England came into the tournament on a run of 11 wins from 12 matches. They’re not India but they are a good solid T20 side for the most part.
Bizarrely given that they didn’t even qualify for the tournament initially I was very worried about the Scotland game - a thrashed 70 out their arse from someone like Richie Berrington is exactly the sort of innings that in previous world cups of t20 or ODI ilk would have seen us drop a game but we were good enough to avoid such a debacle and get the job done.