After losing the toss in the tournament in Muscat, Oman, Nepal was invited to bat and scored 147 runs by losing 9 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs.
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Nepal has given a target of 148 runs to Qatar in the Super Six of the Twenty-20 World Cup Asia-East Asia Pacific Qualifiers on Monday. After losing the toss in the tournament in Muscat, Oman, Nepal was invited to bat and scored 147 runs by losing 9 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs.
After Kushal Bhurtel 6, Asif Sheikh 11 and Kushal Malla were dismissed for 8 runs, captain Rohit Paudel and Dipendrasingh Airi scored 62 runs off 44 balls in the fourth wicket for Nepal. But after Nepal lost 4 wickets with a gap of 6 runs, Nepal could not take its score above 147 runs.
After Dipendra got out in the last ball of the 15th over, Nepal's wicket began to fall . Dipendra played 22 balls and scored 26 runs with 1 boundary. Adil Alam Ansari, who got his first chance in this World Cup Qualifier, was dismissed for just 2 runs in 6 balls. 
Captain Rohit Paudel played an innings of 58 runs. This is Poudel's eighth fifty in Twenty20 internationals. Rohit played 41 balls and hit 7 fours and 1 six. Sandeep Zora was out for 1 run. Gulshan Jha scored 16 with 2 sixes in 8 balls and Sompal Kami, who was run out in an attempt to get 2 runs in the last ball of the innings, scored 14 runs with 1 six in 9 balls. Nandan Yadav played 2 balls and remained unbeaten in 1 run.
Qatar captain Mirza Baig and Daniel Archer took 3 wickets each. Baig spent 29 runs in 4 overs and Archer spent 22 runs in 3 overs . If Nepal wins this match, the chances of reaching the World Cup will be even stronger. Nepal defeated UAE by 1 run in the first match of Super Six the previous day.
