{"id":16347,"date":"2026-09-25T21:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=16347"},"modified":"2026-09-25T21:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:58:17","slug":"asian-games-nepals-winning-start-in-cricket-nepal-beats-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/asian-games-nepals-winning-start-in-cricket-nepal-beats-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games : Nepal&#8217;s winning start in cricket, Nepal beats Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nepal made a winning start in the men&#8217;s cricket event at the Asian Games, defeating Afghanistan by 5 wickets in their match on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chasing a target of 103 runs set by Afghanistan, Nepal reached the target in 17.2 overs for the loss of 5 wickets. In Nepal&#8217;s victory, Sundeep Jora top-scored with 34 runs, while Rohit Paudel contributed an unbeaten 33. Captain Dipendra Singh Airee chipped in with 15 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, after winning the toss and electing to bat first, Afghanistan posted 102 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. Faisal Khan Ahmadzai and Najibullah Zadran each scored 30 runs for Afghanistan, while Nangeyalia Kharote remained unbeaten on 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Nepal, bowler Kushal Bhurtel claimed 4 wickets, while Lalit Rajbanshi took 3 wickets. Nepal is now scheduled to play against Japan on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal made a winning start in the men&#8217;s cricket event at the Asian Games, defeating Afghanistan by 5 wickets in their match on Friday. Chasing a target of 103 runs set by Afghanistan, Nepal reached the target in 17.2 overs for the loss of 5 wickets. In Nepal&#8217;s victory, Sundeep Jora top-scored with 34 runs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[466,449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16349,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16347\/revisions\/16349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16347"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=16347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}