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After Sybrand Engelbrecht played an aggressive innings, the Netherlands defeated Nepal by 4 wickets and won the Twenty20 international triangular series tournament. After Engelbrecht scored 48 runs in 29 balls, the Netherlands completed the target of 185 runs in the final with 3 balls to spare.
After Engelbrecht scored 21 runs off Avinash Bohra in the 18th over with 2 fours and a six, the Netherlands turned the game around. He hit a total of 4 fours and 3 sixes. Tim van der Gugten, who came after Engelbrecht, scored 21 unbeaten runs in 5 balls with 2 fours and a six, and the Netherlands scored 189 runs in 19.3 overs.
opener Michael Levitt scored the highest 54 runs. He scored 54 runs off 29 balls with 6 fours and 3 hits. Max O Dodd scored 22 off 23 balls, Vikramjit Singh scored 29 off 23 balls. Kushal Malla from Nepal took 4 wickets for 33 runs in 3 overs. Avinash and Dipendrasingh Airi had 1 wicket each.
Earlier, Nepal, who decided to bat after winning the toss at the Trivi Cricket Ground, Kirtipur, played the scheduled 20 overs and scored 184 runs with the loss of 8 wickets. Opener Kushal Bhurtel hit 1 four and 2 sixes in 10 balls and got out for 20 runs. He was bowled by Tim van der Gugten who was trying to hit a reverse sweep. Rohit scored 25 runs with 3 fours and 1 six off 19 balls. He also got out while trying to reverse sweep.
opener Asif Shaikh scored the highest 47 runs. He played 37 balls and hit 1 four and 3 sixes. He was out for an unfortunate LBW. Both were dismissed by Michael Levitt. The Netherlands fielder dropped the catch twice when Asif was on 2 and 36 runs. Dipendra got out in 1 run.
Malla played 11 balls and hit 3 sixes and scored 26 runs. Karan KC was dismissed for 9 runs. Arif Sheikh was dismissed in the first ball. In this process, Nepal lost 4 wickets in the gap of 8 balls. Sompal Kami and Pratish JC remained unbeaten at 6 runs each. From the Netherlands, Fred Klaassen, van der Gugten, Levitt and Sybrand Inglebrecht took 2 wickets each.
Nepal reached the final by defeating the Netherlands by 6 wickets in the last match. In the first match of the double round robin tournament, the Netherlands defeated Nepal by 2 runs. After winning the first two matches, the Netherlands lost to Nepal in the third match.
On Sunday, the match between the Netherlands and Namibia was canceled due to rain, and Namibia's chances of reaching the final ended.
