This incident happened during the match against Netherlands in Nepal T20 tri-series.
The 5th match of the ongoing Nepal T20 tri-series was played between Nepal and Netherlands. Let us tell you that in this match played on March 2 at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur, Nepal has defeated Netherlands by 6 wickets.
However, in this match, such fielding was seen from Nepal’s player Kushal Bhurtel, which became a topic of discussion in the cricket world within no time. Let us tell you that in the match, during the 19th over of the Netherlands’ innings, Roelof van der Merwe, who was on strike, played a brilliant shot towards long on, looking at the shot everyone could have said that it would stop just beyond the boundary line.
But alert Kushal at long on, fielded brilliantly and stopped the ball with a brilliant jump, the video of which went viral on social media within no time. Also in this match, Nepal team also got the run out wicket of Vivian Kingma due to this excellent fielding.
Watch this video of Kushal Bhurtel’s brilliant fielding.
Turning a certain six into a wicket.#NEPvNED #NEPT20I pic.twitter.com/JGl7IT07jP
— Bertus de Jong (@BdJcricket) March 2, 2024
On the other hand, if we tell you the condition of this match, Netherlands won the toss and decided to bat first and lost all their wickets for just 120 runs in the stipulated 19.3 overs. On behalf of the team, Max O’Dowd played the best inning of 31 runs, while Van der Merwe remained unbeaten after scoring 23* runs.
So if we talk about Nepal’s bowling, maximum 3 wickets were taken per GC. Apart from this, Karan KC and Kushal Malla managed to take 2 wickets each and Deependra Singh also managed to take one wicket.
After this, Nepal easily won the match by losing 4 wickets in 15.2 overs against the easy target of 121 runs given by Netherlands. For Nepal, captain Rohit Pudel played a brilliant inning of 46 runs and Gulshan Jha played a brilliant inning of 38 runs. For Netherlands, Vivian Kingma got 3 wickets and Aryan Dutt got 1 wicket.