Asif Khan thrilled to join same list as hero Shahid Afridi after making history in Nepal

17.03.2023 - 14:49 thenationalnews.com

World cricket was given one of its great Cinderella stories in Kathmandu on Thursday. Nepal, so often Associate cricket’s most likeable if occasionally down-on-its-luck outfit, had been nowhere.

But they will get to go to the ball after an extraordinary transformation. Over the course of the past month or so, they won 11 out of 12 matches to clinch their place at the Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe in June.

At no point in the three-and-a-half years of Cricket World Cup League 2 had a side enjoyed quite such a spell of dominance. Nepal had found the magic formula right when they needed it.

Amid all the drama at a pulsating Tribhuvan University ground, UAE played the role of Ugly Sisters with great gusto. They might have lost, amid much acrimony in the gloom of a bad-light-stopped-play, DLS controversy, but they gained much in how they performed.

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Left-arm spinner Taijul Islam claimed 5-58 for Bangladesh on Tuesday to help bowl out Ireland for 214 but two early strikes left the one-off Dhaka Test in the balance. Bangladesh took to the crease not long after drinks and were 34-2 at stumps, with Andy McBrine sending back Tamim Iqbal for 21 on the last ball of the day. Mark Adair bowled Najmul Hossain for a duck in the first over of the innings. Mominul Haque was unbeaten on 12 at the end of day's play with Bangladesh trailing Ireland by 180 runs.

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