Nepal playing without Sompal, Gulshan and Asif
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The Netherlands will field first against Nepal in World Cup Cricket League-2. Netherlands captain Scott Edwards won the toss at Dundee's Fort Hill and invited Nepal to bat.
Three changes have been made to the Nepalese team. Sompal Kami and Gulshan Jha are not playing due to injury . Sompal was injured by a bouncer ball while batting in the match against Scotland. Gulshan has injured his knee. Both of them will also miss the tri-nation Twenty20 series starting next week in Glasgow.
Sompal and Gulshan have been replaced by Nandan Yadav and Basir Ahmed. Right-arm fast bowler Nandan is about to make his ODI debut. Similarly, Anil Shah has been played in place of opener and wicketkeeper Asif Sheikh, who could not make a big score.
Netherlands captain Edwards is back in the team . He was injured while batting in the first match against Nepal. He will replace Bikramjit Singh . In the first match, Nepal defeated the Netherlands by 5 wickets on Arif Sheikh's 78 runs.
Nepal has won 2 of the 3 matches in this series. The Netherlands, who lost both games in this League 2 of Scotland, has been defeated in the third game in a row.
In League 2, the Netherlands is in second place with 26 points from 22 games. Nepal has scored 10 points in 14 matches. The top four teams of the eight-nation League 2 will qualify for the World Cup.
