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Nepal and the West Indies travel into Sunday’s T20 World Cup fixture astatine the Wankhede Stadium present with contrasting fortunes. While the West Indies is unbeaten successful the tournament, Nepal mislaid to Italy, aft astir pulling disconnected a triumph against England successful the tourney opener.
West Indies spinner Akeal Hossain made it wide that the squad won’t instrumentality immoderate hostile lightly, whereas Nepal caput manager Stuart Law had a portion of proposal for his players: to enactment distant from societal media and absorption connected the game.
“From the commencement of the tournament, astir of the bigger teams person been successful a spot of bother. So, we are not taking anyone lightly. Preparation is going to beryllium the same, mindset is going to beryllium the same,” Hossain said.
With nary wounded concerns, West Indies hopes to backmost itself and support the momentum going, whereas for the Nepal players, it’s astir immoderate soul-searching aft an embarrassing decision against lower-ranked Italy.
And, Law did not mince his words. “We got to enactment retired wherefore the gulf from the England crippled to the Italy crippled happened. Social media is simply a monolithic portion of Nepalese culture, but it tin beryllium a immense distraction,” Law said.
“If we’re focusing connected what we’re doing connected societal media, if we’re focusing connected what radical are saying astir america connected societal media, and not focusing astir what the squad needs, what the teammates are saying, past you are distracted from your existent job,” the seasoned Australian manager said, adding: “I told the boys to get (social media) distant from cricket…”
Though skipper Rohit Paudel is down with a fever, helium is expected to crook up for the cardinal crippled and bring Nepal’s run backmost connected track.
Match starts astatine 11 a.m.
