{"id":7215,"date":"2023-09-27T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=357366"},"modified":"2023-09-27T16:14:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T10:44:27","slug":"nepal-shatters-elite-records-in-historic-asian-games-t20-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/nepal-shatters-elite-records-in-historic-asian-games-t20-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal shatters elite records in historic Asian Games T20 match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal\u2019s T20 International match against Mongolia at the Asian Games witnessed the smashing of several long-standing records in the format, making it a historic day for cricket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highest T20 Total<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nepal set a new benchmark by scoring 314\/3, the highest total ever in T20 cricket. This achievement surpassed Afghanistan\u2019s 278\/3 against Ireland in February 2019, which was later equaled by the Czech Republic, who made 278\/4 against Turkey in August of the same year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Largest Victory Margin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nepal secured a victory with an incredible margin of 273 runs, marking the largest ever win in a T20 match. This record-breaking win surpassed the Czech Republic\u2019s 257-run victory against Turkey, making it the third instance of a team winning by 200+ runs in T20 Internationals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Record Sixes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nepal\u2019s batsmen hammered an astonishing 26 sixes during their innings, setting a new record for the most sixes hit by a team in a T20 match. This feat bettered the previous record of 23 sixes by the Balkh Legends against Kabul Zwanan in the now-defunct Afghanistan Premier League in 2018. The previous record in a T20 International was 22 sixes, achieved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal\u2019s T20 International match against Mongolia at the Asian Games witnessed the smashing of several long-standing records in the format,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":30121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[637,182],"class_list":["post-7215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-asian-games","tag-nepal"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}