Asia Cup 2023: Rating Teams based on their bowling in the tournament

The Asia Cup 2023 tournament saw the Indian team dominating Sri Lanka in a rather one-sided affair where they won the final by 10 wickets. Notably, Sri Lanka had a nightmarish start to their innings after winning the toss, as they got bowled out cheaply for 50 runs in quick time. What followed next was India chasing down the total in 6.1 overs to become the eight-time champions.

Given that the tournament was the precursor of the ODI World Cup 2023, the teams were looking for answers. And they wanted to try out different things before confirming their squads for the ICC event. Most of the teams found answers to their solutions, but all some teams got were more questions and doubts.

Apart from Nepal, all the other teams will play in the ODI World Cup 2023 and this tournament showed them where they stood in terms of preparation, team building, and combinations. Keeping this in mind, here we examine each of the teams as we rank them based on their overall performance in the Asia Cup 2023.

Here are Ratings for teams based on their bowling in the Asia Cup tournament: 

6. Nepal- 3/10

Since this was Nepal's first dance at the important event, they performed admirably. By taking a few early wickets in their Asia Cup opener against Pakistan, Nepal was able to stave off the inevitable of a massive score. But Pakistan amassed a sizable score thanks to the centuries of Babar Azam and Iftikhar Ahmed.

After that, Nepal's batsmen collapsed for 104 runs after being unable to handle Pakistan's pace attack.

Because of shoddy fielding and catching against India, Nepal's hitters were able to register a very respectable total against the uninspired Indian bowling. However, Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill were unstoppable, and their bowlers were no match.

But Nepal's team surely returned home after gaining knowledge of the game from top India and Pakistan cricketers, which inspired them to keep getting better.