{"id":653,"date":"2021-04-17T16:34:26","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T10:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepallivetoday.com\/?p=653"},"modified":"2021-04-22T13:43:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T07:58:10","slug":"debutants-kushal-aasif-ensure-nepals-victory-over-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2021\/04\/17\/debutants-kushal-aasif-ensure-nepals-victory-over-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Debutants Kushal, Aasif ensure Nepal\u2019s victory over Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Kushal Bhurtel and Aasif Sheikh scored a half-century on their debut as Nepal thrashed the Netherlands by nine wickets in the first match of the Tri-Nation T20I Series in Kathmandu on Saturday.<br><br>Chasing down 137 runs target set by the Netherlands, Nepal scored 141 runs at the loss of one wicket in 15 overs.<br><br>Bhurtel top-scored for Nepal at 62 runs off 46 balls with five sixes and five fours. Sheikh contributed 54 runs as Captain Gyanendra Malla made 13 runs.<br><br>Julian de Mey grabbed the wicket of Bhurtel.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nepal-vs-Netherlands1-768x512.jpg?resize=720%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nepal-vs-Netherlands1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nepal-vs-Netherlands1.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nepal-vs-Netherlands1.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nepal-vs-Netherlands1.jpg?w=1440&amp;ssl=1 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, invited to bat first after winning the toss, the Netherlands made 136 runs at the loss of four wickets in stipulated 20 overs.<br><br>Bas de Leede top-scored at 41 runs as Scott Edwards and Captain Pieter Seelaar contributed 30 and 23 runs respectively.<br><br>For Nepal, Sandeep Lamichhane took two wickets as Sompal Kami and Shahab Alam grabbed a wicket apiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Kushal Bhurtel and Aasif Sheikh scored a half-century on their debut as Nepal thrashed the Netherlands by nine wickets in the first match of the Tri-Nation T20I Series in Kathmandu on Saturday. Chasing down 137 runs target set by the Netherlands, Nepal scored 141 runs at the loss of one wicket in 15 overs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Nepal-vs-Netherlands.jpg?fit=2000%2C1199&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-ax","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}