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Rohit Paudel (Nepal Captain)-"It feels good to be on the winning side. We talked yesterday about taking responsibilities and thats what we did today. We did good in all the three departments today and really happy. He (Gulshan Jha) is a great asset for us. He is a quality all rounder. I would like to dedicate this win to all the ones who lost their lives and were missing."
Aqib Ilyas (Oman Captain): "I think in the last 4 overs they played well. Gulshan played well and then we could have planned better, They finished with 170 and 30 more than what we thought.
We were bad with the bat. Bad shots and we could have chased it down later on. I think we could have chased down in the end. We were too aggressive and threw the wickets away.
I think in T20 anything is possible. It's all on the day. Nepal did well today after they did not do well yesterday.
We need to take more responsibility and stick out there in the middle.
Fielding has to improve and get better. It is individual based and need to put in the hard yards. Yes, we need to put in the hard yards individually. Thank You."
Player of the Match: Gulshan Jha.
01:00 AM IST and 03:30 PM Local Time| Nepal crush Oman as they win by a huge margin of 37 runs, bags 2 crucial points for themselves.
Here's a review of what happened in the match.
Earlier, Oman won the toss and put Nepal to bat first. Batting first, their openers gave them a steady start as they put up 39 runs stand for the first wicket. Kushal Malla then hit some lusty blows but got out on the score of 30 leaving his team 97-5 at one point. Gulshan Jha then joined hands with Kushal Bhurtel and the duo put up a quickfire 61 run stand for the the sixth wicket to stable Nepal's innings. Gulshan Jha was the top scorer for his team who remained not out on 40* from just 17 balls,and on the back of Dipendra Singh Airee's knock of 18* runs off 5 balls ,Nepal reached to an above par score of 176/6.
Aqib Ilyas Sulehri was the pick of the bowlers for his team as he bagged 3 wickets in his quota of 4 overs.
Chasing 177, Oman never really got going. They lost Kashyap Prajapati on the very first ball of the innings. They didn't recover from it and ended the powerplay with a score of 25/3.
Wickets kept tumbling at regular intervals. The pressure kept mounting on the Oman batters. Shoaib Khan showed some grit and held one end but his innings of 45 runs was cut short by Kushal Bhurtel.
Rafiullah hit some late lusty blows in the end and made quickfire 33 runs off 12 balls but the target was beyond their sight. Oman batters succumbed to the pressure and got bundled out on the score of 139 , falling 37 runs short of the target.