Afghanistan vs Nepal: Kushal Bhurtel and Lalit Rajbanshi created a stir with the ball, restricted Afghanistan to 102 runs in the Asian Games.

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Afghanistan vs Nepal: The league stage match of Asian Games 2026 is being played between Afghanistan and Nepal. In this match, Afghanistan captain Darwish Rasooli won the toss and after winning the toss, he invited Nepal captain Deependra Singh Airi to bowl first. Batting first, Afghanistan team scored 102 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs in this important match. Afghanistan team's batting looked very poor in this match.

In this match, Nepal's spinners Lalit Rajbanshi and Kushal Bhurtel created a stir with the ball and took a flurry of wickets for the team. Faisal Khan Ahmadzai and Najibullah Zadran played innings of 30-30 runs for the Afghanistan team. Apart from these two, no other batsman could play a big innings for the team. Now Nepal will have to score only 103 runs to win.

Lalit Rajbanshi created a stir with the ball

Nepal's left-arm orthodox spinner Lalit Rajbanshi has created a stir with the ball. He bowled brilliantly in this match and one after the other showed the way to the pavilion to 3 Afghanistan batsmen. First of all he dismissed Hasan Isaakhil on the score of zero. After this, Lalit Rajbanshi sent Mohammad Akram to the dugout on a personal score of 2 runs. Lalit Rajbanshi did not stop here and made Karim Janat his third victim. Janat was out after scoring only 9 runs. Rajbanshi has so far taken 3 wickets for 6 runs in 3 overs.

Kushal Bhurtel created havoc with the ball

Nepal's Kushal Bhurtel also showed stars to Afghanistan's batsmen during the day with the ball. Bhurtel took a total of 4 wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs. During this, he also bowled 1 maiden over. He first sent Afghanistan's Faisal Khan Ahmadzai and Najibullah Zadran to the pavilion with a personal score of 30-30 runs. After this he dismissed Mohammad Isaac for 7 runs. Bhurtel took his third wicket and dismissed captain Darvesh Rasooli for zero.

Afghanistan's playing-11

Mohammad Akram, Hasan Isaakhil, Karim Janat, Darwish Rasooli (captain), Najibullah Zadran, Mohammad Ishaq (wicket keeper), Faisal Shinozada, Abdullah Ahmadzai, Faridoon Dawoodzai, Nangeyalia Kharouti, Arab Gul Momand.

Nepal's playing-11

Kushal Bhurtel, Asif Sheikh (wicketkeeper), Rohit Paudel, Deependra Singh Airey (captain), Kushal Malla, Gulsan Jha, Sandeep Jora, Lokesh Bam, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan Casey, Lalit Rajbanshi.

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