Nepal, which is making a debut in the Asia Cup, is set to field against Pakistan on Wednesday.
Home team Pakistan elected to bat first after winning the toss at Multan International Cricket Stadium.
Nepal team is captained by Rohit Paudel while Pakistan team is led by Babar Azam.
NEPAL
Kushal Bhurtel (Opening Batter)
Aasif Sheikh † (Wicketkeeper Batter)
Rohit Paudel (c) (Allrounder)
Aarif Sheikh (Top-Order Batter)
Kushal Malla (Allrounder)
Dipendra Singh Airee (Middle-Order Batter)
Gulsan Jha (Bowler)
Sompal Kami (Allrounder)
Karan KC (Allrounder)
Sandeep Lamichhane (Bowler)
Lalit Rajbanshi (Bowler)
PAKISTAN
Fakhar Zaman (Opening Batter)
Imam-ul-Haq (Top-Order Batter)
Babar Azam (c) (Batter)
Mohammad Rizwan † (Wicketkeeper Batter)
Iftikhar Ahmed (Middle-Order Batter)
Agha Salman (Allrounder)
Shadab Khan (Allrounder)
Mohammad Nawaz (Allrounder)
Naseem Shah (Bowler)
Shaheen Shah Afridi (Bowler)
Haris Rauf (Bowler)
Nepal is in Team A alongside Indian and Pakistan while Team B has Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
Sri Lanka will take on Bangladesh on August 31 (Thursday). Similarly, India will lock horns with Pakistan on September 2 (Saturday). Afghanistan will play Bangladesh on September 3, Nepal will take on India on September 4 while Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match is scheduled for September 5.
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