With the impressive performance of openers Kushal Bhurtel and Arif Sheikh, Nepal easily defeated the Netherlands by 6 wickets on Thursday.

After playing three super overs against the Netherlands in the previous match, Nepal took revenge. Nepal completed the target of 175 runs two balls ahead.

In the last over, Nepal needed 7 runs to win. Arif Shaikh retired hurt on the last ball of the 19th over. Lokesh Bam, who came in his place, hit two sixes in the last over and gave Nepal the win. Lokesh, who hit Zach Lion's first ball for a six, played a two-ball dot and hit the fourth ball again for a six .

Arif scored 39 runs off 23 balls while playing an aggressive innings. He hit 3 fours and 2 sixes . Before that, Kushal, who got out in the 16th over, scored 65 runs off 51 balls with 6 fours.

Bhim Sarki, who made his debut in Twenty-20I at the Tetwood Cricket Ground in Glasgow, scored 27 runs. He made his debut memorable by hitting two fours and a six off 16 balls. Dipendra Singh Airi scored 16 unbeaten runs for Nepal, which lost opener Arif Sheikh 7, captain Rohit Paudel for 6 runs.

After Nepal won the toss, the Netherlands came into bat and scored 174 runs in opener Michael Levitt's brilliant half-century. Levitt scored 86 runs for the Dutch team who lost 7 wickets. Levitt hit 6 fours and 5 sixes in 53 balls before being caught out by captain Rohit for the sixth wicket off Karan KC.

Roelof van der Merby scored an unbeaten 36 for the Netherlands, which lost 4 wickets in 45 runs. He hit 4 fours and a six off 21 balls. Along with him, Aryan Dutt remained unbeaten. Aryan scored 17 runs and hit 1 four and 1 six. Safib Zulfiqar scored 14 runs while other batsmen could not reach double figures.