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Despite the bravery of Basir Ahmed and Nandan Yadav, Nepal lost to Kuwait by 3 runs in the final of the four-nation Twenty20 cricket tournament. Nepal, which came with a target of 175 runs in the tournament being held in Hong Kong, had already lost 8 wickets after scoring 92 runs in 14 overs.
Nepal was challenged to score 83 runs in the remaining 36 balls. From here, after Basir and Nandan shared 72 runs in 28 balls in the ninth wicket, Nepal came close to victory. Nandan hit 2 fours and 4 sixes in 14 balls and was dismissed for 37 runs. Lalit Rajvanshi who came after could not score any runs in 2 balls.
In the last over, Nepal needed 11 runs for victory and only 1 wicket was left in hand. Basir hit the first ball of the last over for a six, which was also a no ball. In such a situation, Nepal had to score only 4 runs in 5 balls for victory. But the Nepali team was shocked when Basir failed to score any runs in the next two balls and got out in the fourth ball. Basir played 43 balls and scored 80 runs with 8 fours and 4 sixes.
From Nepal, Kushal Bhurtel 3, Asif Shaikh hit 3 fours and 1 six off 11 balls for 21, captain Rohit Paudel 7, Kushal Malla and Dipendrasingh Airy zero, Sompal Kami 4, Gulshan Jha 9, Karan KC were out for 4 runs. Anudeep Chenthamra of Kuwait took 3 wickets. He spent only 18 runs in 2.3 overs while taking wickets with Basir. Yasin Patel and Navinraj Rajendran took 2 wickets each.
Kuwait, who came into bat after losing the toss, made a strong start, but the team collapsed in the end. Opener Ravija Sandaruwan scored 63 runs off 36 balls. He hit 6 fours and 4 sixes. Clint Anto 26, Meet Bhavsar 16, Usman Patel 23, Mohammad Umar 7, Bilal Tahir got out for 9 runs while captain Mohammad Aslam scored 13 runs off 15 balls.
Sompal and Nandan took 2 wickets each from Nepal. Sompal spent 26 runs in 4 overs and Nandan 34 runs in 4 overs. Karan and Bhurtel took 1 wicket each. Nepal defeated Kuwait by 6 wickets and Qatar by 8 wickets while reaching the final and the match against Hong Kong was canceled due to rain.
