{"id":430921,"date":"2026-02-17T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430921\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:48:07","slug":"t20-world-cup-2026-nepal-win-toss-bowl-against-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/430921\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2026 &#8211; Nepal win toss, bowl against Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toss Scotland chose to bowl\/bat vs Nepal<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/nepal-33\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nepal<\/a> captain Rohit Paudel &#8220;finally&#8221; won the toss and chose to field in their last game of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/icc-men-s-t20-world-cup-2025-26-1502138\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">T20 World Cup<\/a>, against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/team\/scotland-30\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scotland<\/a>, who also couldn&#8217;t make it to the Super Eight. While making the one change of bringing in Sundeep Jora for Karan KC, Paudel said they &#8220;would love to bat well&#8221; after their below-par showings against West Indies and Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Playing their fourth game on the bounce in Mumbai, Paudel said batting had been &#8220;difficult&#8221; for the first four-five overs and that once batters saw through that phase, they could capitalise later on. Still without a win so far this tournament, Nepal will be hoping to sign off with two points in front of what&#8217;s again expected to be a raucous crowd with a massive Nepali fanbase.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland captain Richie Berrington said they were playing the same team and wanted his team &#8220;to adapt well&#8221; in conditions where they were playing their first game of this World Cup. They played their first three in Kolkata where they beat Italy but lost to England and West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal: 1 Aasif Sheikh (wk), 2 Kushal Bhurtel, 3 Rohit Paudel (capt), 4 Dipendra Airee, 5 Aarif Sheikh, 6 Lokesh Bam, 7 Gulsan Jha, 8 Sompal Kami, 9 Sundeep Jora, 10 Nandan Yadav, 11 Sandeep Lamichhane.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland: 1 George Munsey, 2 Michael Jones, 3 Brandon McMullen, 4 Richie Berrington (capt), 5 Tom Bruce, 6 Michael Leask, 7 Matthew Cross (wk), 8 Mark Watt, 9 Oliver Davidson, 10 Brad Wheal, 11 Brad Currie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toss Scotland chose to bowl\/bat vs Nepal Nepal captain Rohit Paudel &#8220;finally&#8221; won the toss and chose to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-430921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}