The Asia Cup 2023 began with the match between Pakistan and Nepal in Multan on Wednesday. Babar Azam received the toss and elected to bat in opposition to Nepal within the Asia Cup 2023 opener on the Multan Cricket Stadium on Wednesday. Pakistan workforce will probably be assured to kick off their Asia Cup marketing campaign with a victory in opposition to Nepal with the house crowd backing them. Whereas Asia Cup debutant Nepal can be backing themselves to drag off an upset of their first ODI encounter in opposition to Pakistan.
Nevertheless, the beginning of the match noticed low attendance, which shocked these watching it on tv.
Not gonna lie however my college cricket event had extra viewers than this one. #PAKvsNEP pic.twitter.com/UsSSVfYtqC
— R A T N I S H (@LoyalSachinFan) August 30, 2023
#PAKvsNEP
Craze of cricket in Pakistan pic.twitter.com/YIW85KWDYk— Rahul (@rahul_vnr32) August 30, 2023
Loopy Crowd in #PAKvsNEP Recreation
They usually needed Asia cup to occur in Pakistan, thank god it acquired Shifted in srilanka! pic.twitter.com/h0KTRZuZym— (@45Fan_Prathmesh) August 30, 2023
An entire empty Stadium in Multan. pic.twitter.com/OD0CUMJ4YF
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) August 30, 2023
However later, sizeable variety of followers did come to the bottom.
Followers have began to assemble to look at Pakistan’s match in Multan. pic.twitter.com/PPKFfRobwG
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) August 30, 2023
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam mentioned on the time of toss, “We’ll bat first, pitch appears very dry and glossy. No motive to call the XI earlier, we needed to provide confidence to our workforce. To be trustworthy, being the top-ranked workforce brings type of stress, we’ll attempt to take pleasure in and do our greatest.”
Nepal skipper Rohit Paudel mentioned on the time of toss, “Everybody may be very joyful, it’s our first sport within the Asia Cup. Everybody in Nepal is admittedly excited for this sport. Many of the issues listed here are similar to Nepal, appears like a ravishing wicket to bat on.”
Pakistan (Enjoying XI): Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf
Nepal (Enjoying XI): Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh(w), Rohit Paudel(c), Aarif Sheikh, Kushal Malla, Dipendra Singh Airee, Gulsan Jha, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Lalit Rajbanshi.
With ANI inputs
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