{"id":798441,"date":"2026-07-13T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798441\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:28:08","slug":"nepal-beat-jersey-by-81-runs-in-opening-one-day-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/798441\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal beat Jersey by 81 runs in opening one day game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">George Richardson bowled Nepal opener Asif Sheikh for 16 in the seventh over to see Nepal on 26-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But his fellow opener Kushal Bhurtal and Bhim Sharki impressed with a second-wicket stand of 122 before Sharki was bowled by Ben Ward for 39 to leave the visitors on 148-2 off 28.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nepal added a further 10 runs before rain stopped play after 31 overs, but when they returned Jersey took two quickfire wickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rohit Paudel was caught off Dan Birrell&#8217;s bowling for 16 while Ishan Pandey was stumped for one to leave the Nepalese on 177-4 off 36.1 overs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bhurtal reached his century off 113 balls and went on to make 105 before being trapped lbw by Nick Greenwood at the end of the 40th over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eight balls later Greenwood took the wicket of Aarif Sheikh for 11 as Nepal slipped to 200-6 off 41.2 overs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ward took another wicket as Henamt Dhami ended on 19 not out for the Nepalese when their innings ended.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Richardson bowled Nepal opener Asif Sheikh for 16 in the seventh over to see Nepal on 26-1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-798441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}