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Italy skipper Wayne Madsen, who suffered a enarthrosis wounded during the team’s opening fixture of the T20 World Cup against Scotland, volition miss the crippled against Nepal astatine the Wankhede Stadium connected Thursday.
While Madsen, who addressed the media connected the eve of the game, was visibly upset astir missing a important game, helium made it wide that “to triumph successful beforehand of 35,000 radical would beryllium beauteous special”. In his absence, Harry Manenti volition pb the side, and anticipation to bring Italy’s run backmost connected way aft the 73-run nonaccomplishment to Scotland.
The Italy players, taking the tract astatine the iconic venue for the archetypal clip successful their career, volition anticipation to beryllium a point. “It’s a immense honour for america to play astatine the Wankhede Stadium. What a celebrated stadium it is! The ambiance is going to beryllium beauteous special,” Madsen said.
And having watched Nepal’s erstwhile crippled against England astatine the aforesaid venue, wherever thousands of Nepali fans turned up to cheer for their team, Madsen expects the same.
“We cognize a batch of Nepali fans are going to beryllium supporting their team. And that’s thing that we person to woody with. And a batch of america bash person acquisition of dealing with large crowds,” Madsen said, adding: “The sound astatine the Wankhede, looking astatine the England crippled was beauteous unreal. And we’ve got to clasp that. And that’s going to beryllium the connection to the guys…”
For Nepal, it volition beryllium astir learning from the mistakes. The squad fell agonisingly abbreviated of stunning England, and skipper Rohit Paudel believes that ‘handling unit and executing the program successful crunch times volition beryllium the cardinal going forward’.
As the contention intensifies, some teams person tons to play for.
