Nepal will play Hong Kong again on Sunday for the third place playoff
The Nepali women's national cricket team has won only the second victory in the four-nation tournament in Uganda. After losing 4 out of the first 5 matches, Nepal, which has been eliminated from the final race, defeated Hong Kong by 6 wickets in the last match of the double round robin league on Friday.
Hong Kong won the toss and scored 104 runs after losing 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Hong Kong opener Sanjin Shahzad scored 54 runs without some key players.
She hit 5 fours and 1 six in 47 balls. Another opener Natasha Mills was dismissed by Pooja Mahato for a wicket. Kerry Chan was out for 16 and Yasmin Daswani for 14 runs. Rajmati Airi took 3 wickets from Nepal. She spent only 17 runs in 4 overs. Captain Indu Burma took 1 maiden in 4 overs and took 2 wickets for 12 runs and Pooja and Ishwari Bisht took 1 wicket each. Nepal completed the target with 3 balls to spare after the
opener Mejkan Khadka scored 47 runs. The Player of the Match Yadhan played 43 balls and hit 3 fours. Reminiscence and Indu shared a half-century for the first wicket within 10 overs. Indu played 32 balls and was dismissed for 18 runs, hitting 1 boundary. Even though Roma Thapa and Bindu Rawal were run out for 4 runs each, Pooja scored an unbeaten 20 runs off 26 balls to win over Nepal. Elisa Yadav remained unbeaten on 5 runs.
Nepal will play for the third place playoff with Hong Kong on Sunday. Hong Kong won only 3 out of 6 matches but were eliminated from the finals race. African teams Uganda and Namibia will compete in the final on Sunday. Hosts Uganda won 4 out of 6 matches and Namibia won 3 matches. If they had defeated Nepal, Hong Kong would have reached the final. However, after the loss to Nepal, Hong Kong remained behind Namibia in run rate.
