UAE defeated Nepal by 4 wickets and won the title of Nepal T20 Triangular international series. In the final on Friday, UAE completed the medium target of 163 runs with 1 ball to spare.
Under the coaching of Monty Desai, Nepal was defeated at home
for the first time. Under Desai's training, Nepal was undefeated in 16 matches
played at home.
Opener Mohammad Wasim scored 45 runs from UAE. After the
Nepalese fielder missed the catch twice, Wasim, the captain, played 22 balls
and hit 7 fours and 2 sixes. Another opener Aryansh Sharma scored 25 runs with
2 fours off 26 balls.
Asif Khan 7, Alishan Sarafu out for 13 runs. Vritya Anand was
given a clean run out by Dipendrasingh Airi to raise Nepal's hopes. Avinash
Bohra bowled Ali Nasir for 9 runs. But Basil Hameed and Ayan Afzal Khan
remained unbeaten and gave victory to UAE. Hamid, who hit the winning run with
a six, scored 22 off 16 balls and Ion scored 5 runs off 3 balls.
Gulshan Jha and Avinash took 2 wickets each from Nepal.
Gulshan spent 19 runs in 3 overs and Avinash spent 27 runs in 4 overs. Kushal
Malla got 1 wicket.
Earlier, Nepal, who came into bat after UAE won the toss, lost 8 wickets and scored only 162 runs after playing the scheduled 20 overs at the University Cricket Ground, Kirtipur.
Even though both openers Kushal and Asif Sheikh got their
lives within the first seven balls, Nepal could not take advantage of it. On
the last ball of the first over, Asif's catch was missed by the UAE
wicketkeeper, while Kushal's shot on the first ball of the second over went to
short fine leg.
Nepal got off to a great start by scoring 59 runs losing only 1 wicket in the power play of 6 overs. Asif got out after scoring 7 runs in 12 balls. In the seventh over, Kushal bowled 2 balls and got out for 1 run. Both were bowled by Ayan Afzal Khan.
Ayan and Aryansh Sharma are playing the first match in the
Nepal Twenty20 international series as they are in the U-19 team of UAE. The
UAE team under the captaincy of Ion was defeated by Nepal in the final of the
ACC U19 Premier Cup. Devrehate spinner Ayan became the best bowler in the U-19
Premier Cup by taking 18 wickets.
Sompal Kami, who hit two beautiful shots, scored 13 runs in 8 balls. Sompal was also bowled by Ayan. Ayan spent only 19 runs in 4 overs. Zahoor Khan and Ali Nasir took 2 wickets each. Zahoor took 36 runs in 4 overs and Nasir took 2 wickets with 36 runs in 4 overs.
Nepal won all four matches in the double round-robin match
and confirmed their trip to the finals, defeating UAE by 2 wickets in Sokram.
Even though UAE won only one match, they qualified to play the final against
Nepal. Hong Kong defeated UAE by 63 runs in the last match on Wednesday.
