Nepal 'A' did not win even with Bomb's century

Lokesh completed his century in 52 balls. He played a total of 56 balls and hit 9 fours and 8 sixes. He was well supported by Arif Sheikh. Arif scored 49 runs. He played 46 balls and hit 1 four and 5 sixes.

These two shared 121 runs in 46 balls for the fourth wicket. After skipper Vinod Bhandari was dismissed for 16 off 14 balls, Dev Khanal for zero, Arjun Gharti for 3 runs, Lokesh and Arif were stuck.

But after Lokesh got out in the fifth ball of the 16th over, the Nepali team could only score 12 runs in 22 balls. Matthew Humphreys dismissed Arif and Kiran Thagunna for 2 runs in the 18th over. In the next over, Fionn Hirand ducked Rashid Khan on the first ball and dismissed Kamalsingh Airy for a wicket.

Mathew Foster dismissed Basir Ahmed for 3 and Hemant Dhami for 0 in the last over and made Nepal victorious. Humphreys and Hryand took 3 wickets each from Ireland.

Earlier, after Nepal 'A' won the toss, Ireland 'A' came to bat and scored 222 runs after losing 5 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs.

Opener Peter Moore scored the highest 49 runs from the Iris team at the Trivi Cricket Ground in Kirtipur . He played 32 balls and hit 4 fours and 3 sixes. After the other opener Ross Edair scored just 2 runs, Kamalsingh was dismissed by Airey, and Moore and Cade Kermichael shared a partnership of 88 runs off 58 balls for the second wicket.

Moore, who has played Tests for Zimbabwe and Ireland, was bowled by Arif Shaikh 1 run before making his half-century. Kermichael scored 38 runs off 29 balls hitting 4 fours and 1 six. Then Stephen Dahney and captain Neil Rock shared a partnership of 51 runs.

Dahni played 16 balls and hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. Rock played 23 balls and scored 38 runs with 1 four and 3 sixes. Gareth Delaney remained unbeaten on 30 and Gavin Hoy on 18. Delaney hit Sagar Dhakal for consecutive sixes in the last 3 balls of the innings and hit 2 fours in 14 balls. Hoi hit 2 sixes in just 6 balls.

Nepal 'A' scored 73 runs in the last 5 overs. Kamal, who returned to the field after a long time, took 3 wickets. But he spent 39 runs in Sokram. Sagar and Arif took 1 wicket each. Sagar, who spent 23 runs in the last over, gave only 11 runs in his first 3 overs.

Ireland 'A' was defeated in the first 2 Twenty20 matches with the Nepali national team. Nepal 'A' will play 3 Twenty20 and 3 ODI matches with Ireland 'A'.