After a lost against the Oman side in a crucial group decider match, the host Nepal are all set to face thier known rivalry once again against the United Arab Emirates. With a 5 runs lost against Oman on Thursday, Nepal settled down as the group A runners up. Meanwhile topping the table Oman will be playing against Bahrain to seal their spot to the ICC T20 Men's Cricket World Cup 2024 to be held in USA & West Indies. Here we will discuss the match preview and live broadcast information of the match between Nepal and UAE Cricket.
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Nepal vs UAE T20I Cricket Head to head
This will be the 9th T20I match between 16th ranked Nepal and 17th ranked UAE in the ICC T20I rankings where both team shares the equal results 4-4.
The last time Nepal and UAE faced each other in the Nepal-Hongkong-UAE tri nations t20i series 2023 final at TU international cricket ground, Kirtipur. Ahead of the qualifiers Nepal & UAE faced each other twice in the series where both Nepal were victorious in the group stage & UAE were in the final.
The rematch of ICC T20 Asia Qualifiers 2022
Semi-finals
- United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
- Ahmed Raza became the first bowler for United Arab Emirates to take a five-wicket haul in T20Is.
A must win match to qualify for T20 WC after a decade
As the winners of semifinal directly qualifies for the next years ICC T20 Men's Cricket World Cup to be held in USA & West Indies, Nepal especially wants a victory on Friday. Such that they could make into the ICC T20 Men's Cricket World Cup 2024 after a decade. Since 2014 T20 World Cup held in Dhaka, Nepal has been suffering a heartbreak when they seems closer to make it happen.
Nepal vs UAE Predicted Playing XI
Against UAE on Friday, Nepal will be looking for one major change as they continued with the same playing set against Singapore, Malaysia & Oman. Leg spinner Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi is likely to get featured in place of Sandeep Jora. Winning the toss, Nepal will prefer to bowl first because they have a very good chasing target against UAE.
Nepal Probable Playing XI:
Aasif Seikh, Kushal Bhurtel, Rohit Kumar Paudel (Captain), Kushal Malla, Sandeep Jora, Gulshan Jha, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane, Abhinash Bohora, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi
UAE Probable Playing XI:
Muhammad Waseem (Captain), Khalid Shah, Vritya Aravind, Asif Khan, Alishan Sharafu, Basir Hameed, Ali Naseer, Ayan Afjal Khan, Zunaid Siddique, Nilansh Keswani, Zahoor Khan