Emerging Asia Cup / Team India's big win over Nepal, Men in Blue above Pakistan in points table

Emerging Asia Cup 2023: Team India has registered its second consecutive win in the Emerging Asia Cup 2023 being played in Sri Lanka. In the match played in Colombo on Monday, the Indian team led by Yash Dhull defeated Nepal by 9 wickets. Earlier, India made a winning start to the tournament by defeating UAE by 8 wickets. Now India's next match will be high voltage on 19th July and two arch rivals India and Pakistan will be face to face. With this victory, Team India has pushed Pakistan down to the top spot in the points table as well.

Playing first in this match, Nepal's team was reduced to 167 runs. For India, Nishant Sindhu took 4 wickets, Rajvardhan Hangargekar 3 and Harshit Rana took 2 wickets. After this, opening the innings for Team India in batting, Sai Sudarshan scored an unbeaten 58 runs. At the same time, Sunrisers Hyderabad's star player Abhishek Sharma played an inning of 87 runs. He was also adjudged player of the match. India won the match by 9 wickets. In the end, Dhruv Jurel played an inning of 21 runs in 12 balls and took the team to victory. India achieved the target in 22.1 overs losing one wicket.

Team India on top in points table

If we talk about the points table, then with the victory in this match, Team India has come on top in Group B. India has secured four points by winning both the matches. At the same time, Pakistan is also in second place with 4 points after winning two matches. But the net runrate of the Indian team is fantastic. India's net runrate is 3.792 while Pakistan's net runrate is 2.875. Nepal and UAE are also present in this group along with India and Pakistan. At the same time, with this victory, India has almost confirmed its semi-final ticket.

A total of eight teams participated in this tournament. Teams from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Oman are present in Group A. Afghanistan is on top in this group by winning both the matches. So, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are fighting for the semi-finals with one win each. The semi-finals of this tournament will be played on July 21. And the final match will be played on July 23 at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.