In a rain-shortened contest, India secured a commanding 10-wicket victory (DLS methodology), propelled by a batting exhibition from openers Shubman Gill (67 not out) and Rohit Sharma (74 not out).
After Nepal put up a decent 230 on the board, rain delay revised India’s goal to 145, which Rohit and Gill achieved with ease.
Speaking on the post-match press convention, Nepal skipper Paudel mentioned, “We talked wigth Rohit and Virat, and they gave (shared) lots of experience with us. This will be very useful for us.”
In reality, Kohli additionally gave Nepal pacer Sompal Kami an autograph on his footwear.
Paudel, nevertheless, rued falling brief by 30-40 runs after they’d a superb begin, thanks to a few dropped catches by India.
“Overall I am happy with the performance of the boys, especially with the bat. I think the openers did a very good job. In the middle order, we could have done better. I thought somewhere around 260-270 would have been a good score. If you talk overall, I am happy with the performance.”
Paudel expressed his disappointment that his bowlers did not get an opportunity to bowl at Kohli.
“We did not get the opportunity to ball against Virat as both the openers (Rohit and Gill) batted till last.”
Paudel mentioned the 2 massive video games in opposition to India and Pakistan offered completely different challenges, primarily due to the climate circumstances.
“It mostly depends upon the conditions. When we played against Pakistan, I thought it was most favourable for the medium pacers and we took that opportunity. Today’s conditions (against India) were more challenging because of the dew as the ball was not gripping. But credit goes to Shubman and Rohit bhai, the way they batted.”
(Wtih company inputs)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com