{"id":31629,"date":"2025-06-24T20:05:22","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T11:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/?p=31629"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T03:51:12","slug":"%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9d%e3%83%bc%e3%83%88%ef%bd%9cacc-u16%e6%9d%b1%e5%9c%b0%e5%8c%ba%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%ef%bd%9c2%e6%97%a5%e7%9b%ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricket.or.jp\/en\/%e3%83%ac%e3%83%9d%e3%83%bc%e3%83%88%ef%bd%9cacc-u16%e6%9d%b1%e5%9c%b0%e5%8c%ba%e3%82%ab%e3%83%83%e3%83%97%ef%bd%9c2%e6%97%a5%e7%9b%ae\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal Defeat Japan U16s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The men’s Japan Under 16 National Team were shown the standard to aspire to when they came up against defending champions Nepal in the East Zone Cup in Kuala Lumpur.<\/p>\n

Nepal, who are regular winners of this competition, had the better of the contest from first to last at the KTJ Oval, earning a win by nine wickets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although Japan won the toss and chose to bat, they were unable to build on the excellent batting performance against Bhutan<\/a> with the step up in quality from the bowling apparent.<\/p>\n

Hugo Tani-Kelly played some attractive drives, including one glorious shot to the fence in the opening over, but fell trying to repeat the trick shortly afterwards against opening bowler Abhay Yadav.<\/p>\n

The same bowler was too quick for Kaisei Kobayashi-Doggett as well, pinning the centurion from the previous match LBW in his fourth over.<\/p>\n

Although captain Charlie Hara-Hinze showed some fight with a counter-attacking 36 from 48 balls, it was fellow left-arm spinner Shubham Khanal who undid the middle order taking five for 15 in his ten overs as Nepal restricted Japan to 80 all out in the 35th over.<\/p>\n

The total never felt like enough against such a quality outfit, and while Kobayashi-Doggett drew a false shot from Joy Thapa to give Japan an early breakthrough, Prashiddha Jaishi (37*) and Shiwansh Bajgain (38*) did enough to steer Nepal to the total in the 15th over to wrap up the win.<\/p>\n

Japan are next in action against Singapore on Thursday, in a must win game for both teams if they want to progress to the Semi-Finals.<\/p>\n

HIGHLIGHTS<\/h2>\n