Nepal lost in practice match with Canada

Sagar Dhakal (5) and Avinash Bohra were dismissed by Dillon Helliger in consecutive balls to give Canada an easy victory. Helliger took 4 wickets with 20 runs in 2.3 overs. Jeremy Gordon and captain Saad Jaffer took 2-2 and Kalim Sana and Pragad Singh took 1-1 wickets.

Kushal Malla scored the highest 37 runs from Nepal. Before being dismissed in the 19th over, he hit 2 fours and a six in 30 balls. Opener Kushal Bhurtel was dismissed for 10 off 16 balls with 2 fours and Asif Shaikh hit 3 fours off 22 balls and got out for 22 runs.

Anil Sah scored 24 runs. He played 16 balls and hit 2 fours and 1 six. Captain Rohit Paudel 1, Sandeep Zora 6, Gulshan Jha nil, Sompal Kami 4 and Karan KC were dismissed for 5 runs.

Earlier, Canada, who came into bat after Nepal won the toss, lost 7 wickets and scored 183 runs in the scheduled 20 overs. Canada made a strong score by adding 21 runs in the last over bowled by Karan. Ravindrapal Singh hit two sixes in the last over. He hit 41 off 17 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes and Helliger hit 2 fours off 7 balls and remained unbeaten scoring 13 runs.

Nicholas Kritan scored the highest 52 runs for Canada. He played 39 balls and hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. Aaron Johnson was out for 10 runs, Pragad Singh was out for 13 runs. Avinash Bohra took 2 wickets from Nepal. He spent 27 runs in 3 overs. Karan KC, Sompal Kami, Gulshan Jha, Lalit Rajvanshi and Sagar Dhakal took 1 wicket each.

The audience was not able to go to the stadium to watch the game as the game was played behind closed doors. A large number of spectators came back from the stadium disappointed after not being able to watch the game. As Monday was a public holiday in the US, the organizers did not allow them to enter the stadium despite the large number of spectators.