🏏ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026: M5: ENG vs NEP on 08/02/26🏏 - Page 5

Sam Curran to Airee, OUT

hacked high out to deep cover!

Dipendra Singh Airee c Banton b Curran 44 (29b 6x4 1x6) SR: 151.72

That is drinks... Rashid hasn't gone wicketless in a spell since a rain-shortened contest against Namibia in the 2024 T20 World Cup... on this evidence, England dare not bowl him again! Or, at least, until this partnership is broken. A huge upset is loading here...

ENG 184-7(20)

NEP 125-3(15)

CRR:8.33

REQ:12

Nepal need 60 runs in 30 balls

Over

15

2 runs, 1 wicket

Need 60 from 30b

NEP 125/3CRR: 8.33 RRR: 12.00

RK Paudel 39 (33b 2x4 2x6)Aarif Sheikh 1 (2b)

SM Curran1/12 (2)

The rate is two a ball now... this over needs to keep within touch for Nepal. Dawson has been England's best bowler today, and he's back for his last.

Dawson to Aarif Sheikh, OUT

Aarif Sheikh c Salt b Dawson 2 (4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50

Nepal s crumbling now.

126/4

Dawson to Rohit Paudel, out Caught by Phil Salt!! Slog, picked out deep mid-wicket and Salt takes a brilliant low catch moving forward. Flatter delivery, slot ball, Rohit smashed it but hit it flat. Salt has pouched that neatly into his hands, ensures nothing touches the ground even when the elbows hit the ground. Rohit Paudel c Phil Salt b Dawson 39(34) [4s-2 6s-2]

Dawson to Rohit Paudel, THATS OUT!! Caught!!

Dipendra Singh Airee

Dipendra Singh Airee burst into the limelight after breaking the record for the fastest fifty in T20I cricket: nine balls against Mongolia in September 2023, and within seven months became only the third man to hit six sixes in an over in a T20I.

A middle-order power-hitter, a useful offspinner and a gun fielder, Airee quickly became one of Nepal's most important players in both ODI and T20I cricket. He was one of the rising stars of Nepal's post-Paras Khadka generation and made his senior team debut as a 17-year-old against Kenya in 2017, after playing in the 2016 U-19 World Cup.

Though Airee began his senior career exclusively as a batter - he bowled just once in his first 22 T20Is and similarly in just a handful of ODIs under Khadka's captaincy - his disciplined offspin became a staple of the team's strategy when Nepal's fixtures resumed following the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only did Airee begin to regularly bowl a full quota of overs, he was indispensable enough as a wicket-taker to see him through patchy batting form.

However, his biggest asset might be his electric fielding. Whether stationed inside the ring in the powerplay or out on the boundary during the slog overs at the death, Airee is a magnet for the ball, pulling off sensational catches and spectacular run outs.

Airee is the first player from Nepal to reach 1000 T20I runs and is the only player from the country with a double of 1000-plus runs and 50-plus wickets in T20Is. While he's had greater impact in the T20 format, he is also one of the first five Nepal batters to breach the 1000-run mark in ODIs.

More some other time....

Eng on driver seat, i told you, i trust english attack vs minor Nation 14 plus run rate require

126/4 ( 59 to win in 27.....

England

184/7

Nepal

(16.3/20 ov, T:185) 131/4

Nepal need 54 runs in 21 balls.

Stats view

Current RR: 7.93

• Required RR: 15.42

• Last 5 ov (RR): 34/2 (6.80)

Win Probability

NEP 14.23%

ENG 85.77%

What is happening? It is unbelievable!! Nepal trying their best!!

6

Jofra Archer to Lokesh Bam, SIX, in the airrrr, just over the bar.

17.4

6

Jofra Archer to Lokesh Bam, SIX, oh he's muscled that so high and over the sightscreen. Slower delivery full and outside off stump, the leg-cutter again but he's not managed to hide it really wide. Lokesh waited and belted it down the ground. Down to 31 off 14 balls

17.4

Jofra Archer to Lokesh Bam, wide, tries the wide slower ball into the wicket but it's too wide

17.3

Jofra Archer to Gulsan Jha, 1 run, full and angling in at full pace from round the wicket, Gulsan slices it to deep point