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Titwood floor in Glasgow witnessed historical past on Monday because the Netherlands defeated Nepal in an exciting contest that grew to become the primary males’s limited-overs match to function as many as three Tremendous Overs.

Having posted 152/7 of their allotted 20 overs, the Dutch staff seemed in a great place within the match. Ben Fletcher and Kyle Klein picked up early wickets to place stress on Nepal. However the Rohit Paudel-led aspect made a robust comeback because of Kushal Bhurtel (34) and skipper Paudel (48). 

Daniel Doram’s four-over spell, by which he gave simply 14 runs, included three wickets, which saved the staff within the sport. Needing 56 runs from the ultimate 5 overs, Rupesh Singh and Paudel took the chase until the twentieth over. With 16 required within the remaining over, tailender Nandan Yadav hammered Klein for 15 runs to tie the sport and set off the primary Tremendous Over.

Tremendous Over 1: 

Nepal batted first and Bhurtel smashed him for 2 sixes and a 4, piling on 19 runs. Whereas it seemed sufficient to defend the 20-run goal, Netherlands’ Michael Levitt started with a six first ball earlier than Max O’Dowd completed the job with a six and a boundary off the final two balls to stage it once more and ship the match right into a second Tremendous Over.

Tremendous Over 2: 

This time, the Netherlands batted first and managed 17 runs. O’Dowd and skipper Scott Edwards posted one more robust goal. However Nepal’s skipper Rohit Paudel opened with an enormous six, and Dipendra Singh Airee adopted with a 4. With seven wanted off the ultimate ball, Airee hit Klein’s for one more six, taking the sport to a 3rd and historic Tremendous Over.

Tremendous Over 3: 

The third Tremendous Over lastly noticed a transparent winner as Zach Lion-Cachet took the ball for the Dutch and produced a superb over. He dismissed each Paudel and Rupesh Singh with out conceding a run. With only one run wanted for victory, Levitt smashed Sandeep Lamichhane’s first ball for a six to finish the thrilling contest.

This was solely the second time in males’s T20I historical past {that a} sport went right into a second Tremendous Over, and the primary time into a 3rd. Zach Lion-Cachet was named the Participant of the Match for his strong over.