After a resounding victory against Bhutan on October 09, 2018, Nepali cricket team battled down the Chinese cricket team in a match part of the ICC World Twenty-20 Qualifiers Asia (Eastern Region) held in Malaysia the same day.

Though Nepal won the toss, China chose to bat first!

However, the Chinese batting line-up could not withstand the ire of Nepali bowlers, who bowled all the Chinese team in 13 overs giving them just 26 runs.

Surprisingly, eight of the Chinese batsmen were duck-out!

Then, Nepali batting order stepped in to finish the set target in just two overs. Openers Binod Bhandari and Pradeep Airee drove the team to success with 24 and 4 respective scores.

Bhandari exhibited his outstanding batting performance by hitting three fours and one six in eight balls.

With regard to bowling performance, Sandeep Lamichhane, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi and Basanta Regmi bagged three wickets each.

Lamichhane stood ‘Man of the Match’ for his winning performance. He has so far won 20 wickets in the tournament.

ICC World Twenty20 Asia Region Qualifier B – Point Table

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In a match with Bhutan held at Bangi, Selangor in Malaysia on October 09, 2018, Nepal bagged a sound victory by 117 runs.

This comes as an additional encouragement for the Nepali team that is already riding on the joy of resounding wins over Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand teams, the wins that moved Nepal to the top of the Group B in the tournament.

Choosing to bat first, Nepali team set a 151-run target for Bhutan, which failed to reach and saw its batting order falling all out for 33 runs in 16.4 overs.

Pradeep Airee stood as the ‘Player of the Match’.

While Nepal won all the four, Bhutan won only one game and lost the three. Now, Nepal has eight points in total drawn from its wins.

Surprisingly, Nepali cricket team is playing with Bhutan after a long gap of 12 years.

Nepal’s next in the tournament will be with China on October 10, 2018 and Singapore on October 12, 2018, the last match of the qualifier tournament.

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