{"id":1659,"date":"2026-02-12T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2026-02-12T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T16:53:08","slug":"mosca-brothers-do-wonders-for-italy-in-maiden-t20-world-cup-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Mosca brothers do wonders for Italy in maiden T20 World Cup victory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Anthony Mosca (62 off 32) and Justin Mosca (60 off 42) have remained unbeaten to help Italy secure their first World Cup in a boisterous fashion by thumping Nepal by 10 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chasing a modest target of 123, the Mosca brothers were absolutely amazing with the bat and treated the Nepalese bowlers with great contempt. Justin Mosca smashed five boundaries and three towering sixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anthony Mosca whacked three boundaries and six towering sixes. The Italian team, who found large support in the crowd, completed equation with 44 balls remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">None of the Nepalese bowlers could rose to the occasion as the Italian openers made a memorable Thursday for their team and fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, after put into bat, Nepal were off to shaky start. Ali Hasan picked up a wicket of dangerous Kushal Bhurtel (10-ball 5). The wicket of Bhurtel started a slide and it went downhill thereafter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only three of the batters, Aarif Sheikh (27), captain Rohit Paudel (23) and Aasif Sheikh (20) shown some resistance with the bat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Italy, Crishan Kalugamage (3-18) spearheaded the bowling attack, picking up three wickets and bagged player of the match award for perplexing the Nepalese batting attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Mosca (62 off 32) and Justin Mosca (60 off 42) have remained unbeaten to help Italy secure their first World Cup in a boisterous fashion by thumping Nepal by 10 wickets at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday. Chasing a modest target of 123, the Mosca brothers were absolutely amazing with the bat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysadaepakistan.com\/English\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}