The Nepali U-16 cricket team made it to semi-finals of the tournament following its win over the Hong Kong U-16 cricket team on December 12, 2017.

The Nepali U-16 team’s win over Hong Kong’s team marks its second consecutive victory in the tournament after its dashing performance against Thai U-16 cricket team on December 11, 2017.

Here is How!

The Hong Kong cricket team, which chose to bat first, had to finish its innings at 82-run score in 35 overs for the fall of 9 wickets because of the dashing performance of Nepali bowlers.

The Hong Kong team felt the jolt right from the start as Nepali bowler Pratish GC bowled Hong Kong’s opener Tej Narain Sheopuri in the very first over of the match.

Despite efforts of the No.3 batsman Kalhan Challu who scored the highest, the Hong Kong team lost 7 wickets with a 45-run score in 24.4 overs.

Pratish performed the best taking 3 wickets in seven overs and Narayan Joshi, who starred in Thailand match with a five-wicket haul, also claimed a wicket.

Das Proves It Again!

Then, the Nepali team stepped in to bat.

Despite a tough start with loss of first 4 wickets for just 34 runs, Trit Raj Das, top scorer in Thailand match, again drove the Nepali team towards success in partnership with opener Rajan Magar and Sunil Bhandari.

The Nepali team finished the target with 84-run score for the fall of 6 wickets.

With this victory, the Nepal U-16 cricket team stands top in Group A of the tournament after gaining four points from the two matches.

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In this 50-over ACC U-19 cricket match, Nepal batted first and set a score target of 186 runs for the Indian team with Dipendra Singh Airee alone scoring 88 runs.

Apart from Dipendra, Jitendra Singh (36) and Bhim Sarki (15) were those who scored double-digit in the Nepali team.

Then, the Indian cricket team made a good start with Himanshu Rana and Manjot Kalra who scored 60 runs in the first 10 overs.

However, the pace did not continue long because of a dashing bowling performance by Kamal Singh Airee of Nepal, who took the first wicket, of Rana’s, in the 13^th over.

This gradually boosted the confidence levels of the Nepali team and Dipendra, who had performed well in batting, displayed his bowling performance also by taking the last three wickets driving the Indian team to defeat with 11 balls remaining.

Pawan Sarraf (2) and Shahab Alam (2) were among other Nepali bowlers who performed well after Dipendra (4).

India finally lost the match to Nepal at 48.1 overs with 166 runs.

Nepali Team Elated at Dravid’s Wish

“Rahul Dravid, the Indian U-19 cricket coach, congratulated us. He said we deserved this win as much as anybody else. He also said we played better than anybody else in the tournament. We are happy he acknowledges our effort. We are thrilled to have his support with us,” said Binod Kumar Das, the Nepali U-19 cricket coach.

This is the sixth attempt that is coming as a great encouragement for the Nepali cricket team after facing a series of defeats against the Indian team in two U-19 World Cup and three U-19 Asia Cup matches.

Earlier to this match, Nepal had lost against Bangladesh and is now heading for its next fight with the Malaysian
U-19 team in its final group match on November 13, 2017.

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The Nepali U-19 cricket team’s attempt to play the ICC U-19 World Cup takes a hit as the team lost against the Afghanistan team in a match held in Singapore on Tuesday.

With this, the Nepal team remained at eight points. Whereas, the Afghan team, with 12 points, qualified for the World Cup match to be held in New Zealand in 2018.

While the first-batted Afghan team has set a score target of 196 runs, the Nepali team ended up at 40.3 over with just 99 runs, thus facing a 96-run defeat.

Poor batting performance is seen as a major reason behind the Nepali team’s failure in the match. All-rounder Dipendra Aire has proved his performance by scoring 48 runs, however, rest of the batsmen scored less.

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