{"id":37827,"date":"2025-12-17T18:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=37827"},"modified":"2025-12-17T18:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T12:58:08","slug":"u-19-asia-cup-nepal-defeated-by-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/u-19-asia-cup-nepal-defeated-by-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"U-19 Asia Cup: Nepal defeated by Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, Dec 17:<\/strong> Nepal lost to Afghanistan by 6 wickets in the match held today under the U-19 Asia Cup cricket tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In its final group stage match under the Group &#8216;B&#8217; held in Dubai, the UAE today. Afghanistan achieved the victory target of 125 runs set by Nepal in 26.5 overs, losing 4 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>For Afghanistan&#8217;s victory, Uzairullah Niazai scored 61 runs while Osman Sadat contributed 28 runs with captain Mehboob Khan remaining unbeaten on 11 runs.<\/p>\n<p>For the bowling side, Nepal&#8217;s Abhishek Tiwari took 2 wickets and Bipin Sharma took 1 wicket. Earlier, invited to bat first after losing the toss, Nepal was all out for 124 runs in 46.4 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Dilsad Ali top-scored with 32 runs for Nepal while Chandan Ram contributed 27 runs and Abhishek Tiwari added 20 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Zaitullah Shaheen took 3 wickets while Abdul Aziz and Nuristani Omarzai and Wahidullah Zadran took 2 wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal is now out of the tournament following today&#8217;s defeated, the third consecutive defeat in the tournament. Prior to this, Nepal had lost to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Dec 17: Nepal lost to Afghanistan by 6 wickets in the match held today under the U-19 Asia Cup cricket tournament. In its final group stage match under the Group &#8216;B&#8217; held in Dubai, the UAE today. Afghanistan achieved the victory target of 125 runs set by Nepal in 26.5 overs, losing 4 wickets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37829,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37827\/revisions\/37829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}