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Nepal lost to UAE in the semi-final, the dream of playing Asia Cup ended
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Nepal's ACC Twenty-20 Premier Cup cricket journey has stopped in the semi-finals. Nepal, who batted very badly, was defeated by UAE by 6 wickets in the semi-final of the tournament being held in Oman on Friday.
With this, Nepal's second consecutive Asia Cup has come to an end. There is a provision that the winner of the Premier Cup will be able to play in the Asia Cup next year. Last year, Nepal defeated UAE in the final in Kathmandu and played the one-day Asia Cup.
UAE completed the target of 120 runs by scoring 123 runs in 16 balls. Alisan Sarafu remained unbeaten on 55 and Ayan Afzal Khan scored 3 runs. Sarafu hit 4 fours and 2 sixes while playing 41 balls.
Opener and captain Mohammed Wasim was dismissed for 11 runs in 7 balls. Wasim hit Sompal Kami for a six in the second over. But Sompal bowled him in the next ball.
Gulshan Jha dismisses Vishnu Sukumaran and Asif Khan. Sukumaran hit 3 fours and 1 six off 28 balls and Asif scored 10 runs off 6 balls and hit 1 six. Syed Haider was dismissed lbw by Lalit Rajvanshi for 14 runs.
Earlier, even though Sandeep Zora made a half-century, Nepal was invited to bat after losing the toss, but UAE stopped them with a score of 119-9. After Kushal Bhurtel was caught behind the wicketkeeper by Junaid Siddiqui on the first ball of the match, the Nepali innings was completely subdued at Al Amerat in Muscat.
Another opener Asif Shaikh hit a six but managed to score only 8 runs in 11 balls. Captain Rohit Poudel also could not stand learning for long . He played 18 balls and scored only 5 runs. Kushal got out with 3 runs in 5 balls and Dipendrasingh Airey scored 5 runs in 8 balls.
Zora got out for 50 runs . This is his third fifty in Twenty20 internationals. He played 40 balls and hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. Gulshan and Karan KC were the other two scorers from Nepal. Gulshan scored 20 with 1 four and six in 16 balls and Karan scored 17 runs in 12 balls with two sixes.
Sompal was dismissed for 2 runs. Avinash Bohra 1 and Lalit Rajvanshi remained unbeaten with 2 runs. Siddiqui, Ali Naseer and Basil Hameed took 2 wickets each from UAE. Siddiqui gave 26 runs in 4 overs, Nasir gave 28 runs in 4 overs and Hamid gave 4 runs in 2 overs . Safi Rahman, Ayaan Afzal Khan and Mohammad Farooq took 1 wicket each.
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