Nepal continue to exist USA scare to sign up first win in league

Nepal pacer Karan KC claimed 4 essential wickets to keep away from a beautiful defeat to the US. The hosts defended a modest goal of 191 runs towards a powerful. Batting lineup withinside the 0.33 healthy of the ICC World Cricket League 2. On the Tribhuvan University cricket floor in Kirtipur, on Saturday.

KC`s most important scalp for the day become US batsman Ian Holland, who threatened to take the healthy. Away single-handedly at the same time as he ran out of companions at the opposite end. Holland, who got here to the crease while his aspect had misplaced 3 wickets with simply 9 runs. At the board, scored a affected person seventy five off 111 balls. But that become now no longer sufficient to stable a win towards the hosts, sponsored through a complete residence of Nepali spectators.

Earlier, after being positioned to bat

Nepal did now no longer have a super begin themselves. With skilled batsmen Subash Khakurel (3), Gyanendra Malla (21), Dipendra Singh Airee (0), Paras Khadka (19) and Aarif Sheikh (2) brushed off with simply forty nine runs at the board, Nepal`s reason withinside the healthy seemed doomed.

However, debutant Kushal Malla and veteran wicket-keeper batsman Binod Bhandari rescued Nepal innings—the pair introduced eighty four runs for the 6th wicket. The left-passed teenager, who scored a fifty have become the youngest—at an age of 15 years and 340 days—to attain a half-century in one-day internationals. The document become formerly held through Nepal`s Rohit Kumar Poudel, who accomplished the feat while he become sixteen years and 146 days old. Bhandari made fifty nine off seventy nine balls.

Chasing a goal of 191 runs for the win after prevailing the toss, the united states discovered themselves in all hassle early on as they have been decreased to 27-five in 10.1 overs. Man-of-the-healthy Karan KC and spin sensation Sandeep Lamichhane ripped aside the visitors` pinnacle order earlier than Ian Holland’s rekindled the tourists` wish of stealing a win. Holland, who ran out of companions, become stuck at the back of through wicketkeeper Bhandari off KC withinside the forty first over. Curtains fell at the US innings at the forty fifth over with a hundred and fifty five runs at the board.