World Cup Cricket League-2: Nepal is playing against Oman today

Canada defeated Nepal by 113 runs at the Maple Leaf North West ground in King City, Toronto. Nepal had to surrender in the first match of the second series of League 2. Nepal has suffered 4 defeats in 5 matches. Three of those losses were at home in February.

Nepal has been seen as weak in foreign lands. Nepal repeated the same weakness against Canada. Nepal lost to Canada for the first time in the one-day international format. When Canada came to Kathmandu in February, it suffered a 'cleansweep' defeat against Nepal in the series of three one-day internationals.

Despite not being able to bowl disciplined, Nepal kept Canada's batting under control. Canada was 133-5 in 37 overs. After that, the game was completely under the control of Canada and Nepal performed very poorly in the rest of the game. Be it bowling or batting.

Nepal spent 120 runs in the last 13 overs. Captain Nicholas Kirtan and Shaad Bin Zafar were both in the Devrehate batter's crease, but the decision of Captain Rohit Poudel and Dipendrasingh Airey to bowl to off-spin bowlers was very fatal. Nepal did not allow any of its leading bowlers to bowl 10 overs of the full quota and used 8 bowlers.

Skipper Kirtan scored an unbeaten 73 off 44 balls as Canada posted a score of 253-8. He came to bat in the 33rd over and hit 3 fours and 4 sixes. Towards the last over of Candeley's innings, Kirtan hit 2 sixes off Rohit and Dipendra. Dillon Helliger scored 30 runs off 28 balls with 2 fours and a six. In the lower order, Jafar scored 17 runs off 13 balls and Kalim Sana scored 10 runs off 8 balls.

In the top order, Aaron Johnson was dismissed for 10 runs, Pragad Singh for 17, Harsh Thackeray for 17 and Shreyash Mova for 4 runs. Opener Navneet Dhaliwal, who played with the stick, scored 48 runs by hitting 4 fours in 90 balls. The Nepalese bowler bowled 10 wides and 1 no-ball. Sompal Kami and Lalit Rajvanshi took 2-2 and Sandeep Lamichhane, Gulshan Jha and Rohit took 1-1 each.

Even though lower order batsman Karan KC scored 27 runs, Nepal were bowled out for 150 runs in 40.1 overs. Karan, batting at number ten, hit 2 fours and a six in 24 balls. Sandeep scored 22 runs off 16 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes. Kushal Bhurtel 1, Asif Sheikh 20, Bhim Sarki 18, Rohit 5, Kushal Malla 12, Dipendra 8, Sompal 6 and Gulshan were out for 15 runs.