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The 7th match of T20 World Cup 2024 will be played between Nepal and Netherlands on Tuesday night. The match will be played at Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas from 9 pm (Indian time). The toss will take place at 8:30 pm. This will be the first match of the tournament for both the teams.
Group D is being considered as the ‘Group of Death’ of this edition of the World Cup. Group of Death is where bigger teams are in danger of losing to smaller teams. South Africa, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Netherlands and Nepal. Among the smaller teams in this are Netherlands and Nepal, who can cause an upset at any time. The first match of this group will be played today.
Nepal is playing in the World Cup for the second time and Netherlands for the sixth time. Earlier, Nepal had played in 2014 and Netherlands in 2009, 2014, 2016, 2021 and 2022.
Captain Paudel top scorer, Omarzai took most wickets
Captain Rohit Paudel scored the most runs for Nepal in the last 12 months. Scored 732 runs in 28 matches. Meanwhile, right arm medium pacer Avinash Bohra is the top wicket taker of the team.
Nepal’s top players in the last 12 months…
Levitt scored the most runs for Netherlands, will debut in the tournament
Michael Levitt has scored the most runs and Viv Kingma has taken the most wickets for the Netherlands in the last 12 months. Levitt has scored 349 runs in 9 matches. Kingma, who is at the top position in bowling, has 12 wickets in 9 matches. Levitt will debut in the World Cup. He made his T20 International debut against Nepal in February this year.
Netherlands in the last 12 months Top players of…
Margin of one match between the two teams
Both the teams have faced each other 12 times before in T-20 matches. This will be for the first time in the T-20 World Cup. Of the last 12 matches, 5 were won by Nepal and 6 by Netherlands. Whereas the result of one match could not be declared.
The last series between the two teams was played in February-March this year. In this, Netherlands won 2-1.
pitch report
The first match of this World Cup was played between America and Canada at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas. Which was high scoring. In this match, Canada had scored 194 runs and America had achieved it in the 18th over.
Weather report- 2% chance of rain
Dallas will have both clouds and sunshine on Tuesday. There is a 2% chance of rain. The temperature here can be 34 to 23 degrees Celsius on the match day.
Possible playing eleven
Netherlands: Michael Levitt, Max O’Dowd, Vikramjit Singh, Bes de Leede, Scott Edwards (captain and wicketkeeper), Wesley Baresi, Tim Pringle, Logan Van Beek, Paul van Meekeren, Aryan Dutt and Vivian Kingma.
Nepal: Kushal Bhurtel, Asif Sheikh (wicketkeeper), Rohit Kumar (captain), Deependra Singh Airey, Sandeep Jora, Kushal Malla, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Lalit Rajbanshi and Avinash Bohra.
