Nepal became the runner up

(2010-4-9)

Nepal’s dream to lift most imperative trophy among non-test playing nation, spoil by Afghanistan as they defeated Nepal by 97 runs in final of ACC Trophy Elite 2010 in Kuwait. Batting first, the latest ODI nation
Afghanistan scored respectable 224 in their allotted 50 overs with help of 58 by opener Karim Sadiq. The major boost of their total was 97-run stand between Raees Ahmadzai and Mohabbad Nabi for the seventh wicket. Raees scored 52 and Nabi scored 48 runs. Mirwais Ashraf and Nowroz Mangal scored 24 and 14 runs respectively. Binod Das was peak of Nepali bowler with 3-35. Paras Khadka and Rahul BK shared 2 wickes each and Basanta Regmi claim 1 wicket.


In reply, Nepal never seems comfortable against both pace and spin bowling of Afghanistan. Sharad Vesawkar and Gyanendra Malla shows some fight with 35 and 30 runs respectively, but never troubled the Afghanistan. Skipper Paras Khadka (11) and Sanjam Regmi (10) was other double figure achiever. Nepal threw all the wickets in 129 runs in 40 overs. Nowroz Mangal and Mirwais Ashraf shared 2 wickets each for Afghan. Shahpoor Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Samiullah Shinwari and Hamid Hassan shared 1 wicket apiece.
Raees Ahmadzai declared Man of the Final for his key contribution through his bat in the ultimate.

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Final: Nepal vs Afghanistan at Hubara April 9, 2010

Nepal won the toss and elected to field

AFGHANISTAN			R	B	4s	6s
Karim Sadiq	c P. Khadka b R.Vishvakarma		58	105	2	2
Noor Ali Noori	run out G. Malla		5	12	0	0
Muhammad Shahzad	c Chhetri b B. Das		0	2	0	0
Nowroz Mangal	c A. Mandal b B. Das		14	14	3	0
Mirwais Ashraf	c G. Malla b R.Vishvakarma		24	26	1	2
Asghar Stankezai	run out B. Regmi		6	18	0	0
Raees Ahmadzai	c D. Chaudhary b P.Khadka		52	64	5	1
Mohammad Nabi	st Chhetri b B. Regmi		48	46	1	2
Samiullah Shinwari	b P.Khadka		5	4	1	0
Hamid Hassan	not out		5	5	1	0
Shahpoor Zadran	b B. Das		2	4	0	0
Extras: w 2, lb 3			5
Total			224 all out off 49.6 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-14 (5.4 overs, Sadiq 9*), 2-14 (5.6 overs, Sadiq 9*), 3-39 (11.5 overs, Sadiq 17*), 4-98 (24.6 overs, Karim 52*), 5-110 (28.1 overs, Stanekzai 5*), 6-114 (30.1 overs, Ahmadzai 2*), 7-211 (47.2 overs, 51*), 8-217 (48.1 overs, Shinwari 5*), 9-217 (48.3 overs, Hassan 0*),10-224 (49.6 overs, Hassan 5*)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Shakti Gauchan	9	0	44	0
Binod Das	8	2	35	3
Paras Khadka	8	1	35	2
Basant Regmi	10	1	38	1
Rahul Vishvakarma	9	0	40	2
Sanjam Regmi	6	0	29	0

NEPAL			R	B	4s	6s
Mahesh Chettri	c M. Shahzad b M. Ashraf		4	15	0	0
Anil Mandal	c A. Stanekzai b M. Ashraf		5	11	1	0
Shakti Gauchan	c M. Nabi b S.Zadran		6	23	0	0
Paras Khadka	lbw M. Nabi		11	30	0	0
Gyanendra Malla	run out M. Shahzad		30	43	3	0
Sharad Vesawkar	run out M.Ashraf		35	60	3	0
Basant Regmi	b N. Mangal		5	9	0	0
Dipendra Chaudhary	b H. Hassan		0	1	0	0
Binod Das	c M. Shahzad b S. Shinwari		8	20	0	0
Sanjam Regmi	not out		10	24	0	0
Rahul Vishvakarma	b N. Mangal		1	5	0	0
Extras: nb 1, w 12, lb 1			14
Total			129 all out off 40 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-16 (3.2 overs, Mandal 5*), 2-18 (5.5 overs, Gauchan 1*), 3-28 (10.2 overs, Khadka 5*), 4-49 (16.6 overs, Malla 15*), 5-75 (23.3 overs, Vesawkar 10*), 6-85 (25.6 overs, Vesawkar 14*), 7-86 (26.4 overs, Vesawkar 15*), 8-102 (31.6 overs, Vesawkar 22*), 9-124 (37.5 overs, Sanjam 8*),10-129 (39.6 overs, Sanjam 10*)

AFGHANISTAN	O	M	R	W
Shahpoor Zadran	7	3	11	1
Mirwais Ashraf	7	0	31	2
Mohammad Nabi	7	0	22	1
Samiullah Shinwari	10	1	32	1
Hamid Hassan	6	0	23	1
Nowroz Mangal	3	0	9	2

AFGHANISTAN WON BY 95 RUNS

Man of the Match: Raees Ahmadzai (Afghanistan)