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Nepal U-19 won the ACC U-19 World Cup Asia qualifier against Hong Kong U-19 by 9 wickets on Wednesday. After Yuvraj Khatri's excellent bowling performance in the second consecutive match, Nepal got a target of 116 runs to win the match against Hong Kong.
Nepal won by scoring 118 runs in 12.3 overs at Lower Mulpani Cricket Ground. This is Nepal's third consecutive victory. After defeating UAE by 5 runs in the first match, Nepal won the second match against Oman by 8 wickets.
Afghanistan has also won the first two matches. After easy wins against Hong Kong and Oman, Afghanistan scored 359/4 against UAE at the Upper Mulpani Cricket Ground.
It has been decided that the match between Nepal and Afghanistan on Saturday will be like the final. The tournament, which includes Nepal, Oman, UAE, Afghanistan and Hong Kong, will be held on a round-robin basis and the winning team will qualify for the ICC U-19 World Cup.
Niraj Yadav and Sahil Patel scored 55 runs in 6 overs to give Nepal a good start. Niraj played 12 balls and hit 4 boundaries and was dismissed for 23 runs. Sahil scored 42 off 41 balls and hit 8 fours and captain Naren Bhatt scored 39 runs off 23 balls hitting 8 fours and remained unbeaten.
Hong Kong, who came into bat after losing the toss, were bowled out for only 115 runs after playing 46.2 overs. Yuvraj, the leg-spinner who took 5 wickets for 17 runs in the previous match against UAE, also lost Hong Kong's batting after taking 4 wickets on Wednesday.
Yuvraj spent only 18 runs in 10 overs. Shiv Mathur, who scored the highest 63 runs from Hong Kong, was also dismissed by Yuvraj. Shiva played 116 balls and hit 4 fours and 1 six.
opener Panjawani scored 13 runs, Veer Mathur scored 12 runs and Hryari Thomas Hedson scored 10 runs. As the only change in the Nepalese team, Bipin Sharma, who came in place of fast bowler Dayanand Mondal, was played. Bipin, who was selected as an emerging player in the four-month-old Nepal Premier League (NPL) cricket, took 3 wickets while playing the first match in the tournament. He spent 24 runs in 6.2 overs.
Bipin, who came with the new ball along with Abhishek Tiwari, gave Nepal a great start by dismissing Jude Lee Thomas for a wicket in his first over. Another Devrehate spinner Santosh Yadav took 2 wickets for 20 runs in 10 overs. Ashok Dhami got 1 wicket.
