The team that wins this match will advance to Super Six with 2 extra points. Nepal defeated Kuwait by 58 runs in the first match of Group B on Wednesday. Japan scored 5 wickets against Kuwait on Thursday.
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Japan has given a target of 132 runs to Nepal in the Twenty-20 World Cup Asia-East Asia Pacific qualifiers. After Nepal won the toss on Friday, Japan was invited to bat and scored 131 runs after losing 8 wickets after playing the scheduled 20 overs in Muscat, Oman.
Dipendrasinh Airi gave Nepal a great start by running out Abhishek Anand for 1 run in the fourth over with another straight throw. But after Kendall Kadowaki-Fleming and Isam Rahman shared 86 runs for the second wicket, Japan made a great comeback.
Sompal broke this partnership by dismissing Rahman in the 13th over. Rahman played 25 balls and scored 31 runs with 1 four and 2 sixes. After Gulshan Jha dismissed Kadowaki in the next over, Nepal took control of the game. Kadowaki scored 60 runs by hitting 5 fours and 3 sixes in 46 balls.
Ibrahim Takahashi was bowled by Gulshan for 4 runs. Sandeep Lamichhane dismissed Sabaoris and Ravichandan and Declan Suzuki for the same 1 run. Reo Sakurano Thomas was run out for 3 runs. Benjamin Ito Davies was dismissed for 17 runs off 12 balls.
Gulshan and Sandeep took 2 wickets each from Nepal. Gulshan spent 20 runs in 4 overs and Sandeep spent 25 runs in 4 overs. Sompal took 20 in 4 overs and Nandan Yadav took 1 wicket each with 16 runs in 3 overs.
The team that wins this match will advance to Super Six with 2 extra points. Nepal defeated Kuwait by 58 runs in the first match of Group B on Wednesday. Japan scored 5 wickets against Kuwait on Thursday. As a result, Nepal and Japan reached the second stage, while Kuwait was eliminated from the group stage.
