Nepal vs Italy Highlights: Two brothers fight with the bat in Wankhede Stadium, Italy gets first win in T20 World Cup

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Italy’s first win in T20 World Cup history Mumbai: The Italian team has got its first win in the T20 World Cup. The team is participating in the tournament for the first time. After losing to Scotland in the first match, it won one-sidedly against Nepal in the second match. Italy defeated Nepal by 10…

Nepal vs Italy Highlights: Two brothers fight with the bat in Wankhede Stadium, Italy gets first win in T20 World Cup

Italy’s first win in T20 World Cup history
Mumbai: The Italian team has got its first win in the T20 World Cup. The team is participating in the tournament for the first time. After losing to Scotland in the first match, it won one-sidedly against Nepal in the second match. Italy defeated Nepal by 10 wickets at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. In the T20 rankings, Nepal’s team is at 16th while Italy is at 26th. Playing first, Nepal’s innings was reduced to just 123 runs. For Italy, two brothers Justin Mosca and Anthony Mosca came to open the batting and they gave the team victory in the 13th over without losing any wicket.

Justin Mosca and Anthony Mosca brought victory

For Italy, two brothers Justin Mosca and Anthony Mosca opened the innings. Both of them attacked as soon as they arrived and did not give any chance to Nepal. Anthony hit a six against Curran KC in the first over. Justin hit a six and two fours in the third over. In the power play itself, both of them took the team to 68 runs. Justin completed his fifty on the fourth ball of the 11th over and Anthony completed his fifty on the fifth ball. Italy won the match on the fourth ball of the 13th over. Justy Mosca scored 60 runs in 44 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. Anthony hit 3 fours and 6 sixes in 32 balls and scored 62 runs.

Nepal’s batting did not work

Italy won the toss and invited Nepal to bat first. This team got its first blow in the form of Kushal Bhurtel (5) on the score of 8. After this, captain Rohit Paudel made a partnership of 41 runs in 30 balls with Asif Sheikh for the second wicket, taking the team to the score of 49. Rohit was out after scoring 23 runs in 14 balls with 2 sixes, while Asif added 20 runs in 20 balls with 2 fours.

Nepal had lost its 3 wickets at the score of 49. From here, Deependra Singh Airi made a partnership of 44 runs in 39 balls with Asif Shaikh for the fourth wicket, taking the team to the score of 93. Deependra scored 17 runs in 18 balls while Arif scored 27 runs in 24 balls. Nepal’s team was reduced to a score of 123 in 19.3 overs. The last 7 wickets of the team fell in scoring 30 runs. For Italy, Krishan Kalugamage took 3 for 18 runs while Ben Manenti took 2 wickets.

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