In the first match of the Asia Cup, Pakistan defeated Nepal by a huge margin of 238 runs.In the Asia Cup played in Multan, Nepal team was bowled out for 104 runs in 23.4 overs in pursuit of 343 runs given by Pakistan.
Sompal Kami scored 28 runs, Arif Shaikh scored 26 runs.
Captain Rohit Paudel fails to score, Shahin Shah Afridi hits the mark with no runs scored; Gulshan Jha makes 13 runs.
On behalf of Pakistan, Shadab Khan guided four players to the pavilion, Haris Rauf and Shaheen Afridi took two wickets each.
Earlier, Pakistan scored 342 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in the allotted overs and had given Nepal a target of 343 runs to win.
Babar Azam scored his 19th career century and played a brilliant innings of 151 runs off 131 balls. Iftikhar Ahmed also scored 109 runs off 71 balls.
Iftikhar Ahmed scored the first century of his ODI career.
Captain Rohit Kumar, Kaushal Bhartil, Asif Sheikh, Kaushal Mulla, Dipendra Singh, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami in the Nepal team.
Karan Khatri, Sandeep Limichane and Lalit Rajbanshi are part of the team.
Speaking on the occasion of the toss, Babar Azam said that there is no pressure to be world number one, he will enjoy his cricket, he will try to play good cricket in the event.
On the other hand, Nepalese captain Rohit Kumar said that all our players are very happy, our team is playing Asia Cup for the first time, the wicket is looking good for batting.
