This is the third win for Nepal 'A', coached by Raju Basnyat, against the visiting team.
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Nepal 'A' defeated the United States, which is preparing for the Cricket World Cup League 2, by 3 wickets on Friday. Nepal 'A' had defeated Scotland by 45 runs just the day before.
This is the third win for Nepal 'A', coached by Raju Basnyat, against a team that has visited Nepal. Nepal 'A' had also defeated Oman earlier. Nepal 'A' will face Scotland again on Saturday.
After winning the toss, the United States, which came to bat, scored 262 runs in the stipulated 50 overs at the upper cricket ground in Mulpani for the loss of 8 wickets. Nepal achieved the target with 5 balls to spare after Mayan Yadav scored 72 runs.
Player of the Match Mayan hit 4 fours and 2 sixes in 80 balls. He and Kushal Malla made a 95-run partnership for the fifth wicket to give Nepal victory. Kushal scored 33 runs in 49 balls, including 1 six. When Nepal was close to victory, both of them were dismissed by off-spinner Milind Kumar. Milind had taken a brilliant catch of Kushal in his own bowling and had Mayan caught on the boundary line.
Then, Bashir Ahmed came in and scored 18 runs in 16 balls, hitting 1 six. Pawan Saraf remained unbeaten on 2 runs in 15 balls and Deepak Dumre remained unbeaten on 2 runs. Pawan hit two sixes and a four in consecutive balls to Nosathus Kenjige in the 48th over, and Nepal came close to victory.
In the top order, Tritaraj Das scored 23 with 3 fours in 30 balls, captain Anil Sah scored 27 with 2 fours and a six in 31 balls, Dev Khanal scored 17, Sandeep Jora scored 36 runs in 52 balls, hitting 4 fours. Milind took 2 wickets for America, while Saurabh Netrabhalkar, Kenjige, Rusil Ugarkar, Harmit Singh and Sanjay Krishnamurthy took 1 wicket each.
Earlier, Smith Patel had scored a century for America. Although he scored 116 runs, the US could not score a big score on a good wicket due to the middle order not working. He hit 10 fours and 5 sixes in 108 balls. But then Sayan Jahangir was out for 9, captain Monak Patel for 20, Saiteja Mukamalla for 10, Milind for 7, Shubham Ranjan for 16, Krishnamurthy for 15 and Sehan Jayasuriya for 7.
It was only after Harmit and Jasdeep Singh put on an unbeaten partnership of 54 runs in 44 balls for the ninth wicket that America reached a score above 250. Harmit hit 23 balls and 25 runs, while Jasdeep hit 1 four and 3 sixes in 28 balls and remained unbeaten on 33 runs. Pawan took 2 wickets for Nepal, while Bipin Khatri, Shahab Alam, Bashir, Sher Malla, Rashid Khan and Narayan Joshi took 1 wicket each.
