Chasing a target of 110 runs, Nepal were bowled out for 40 in just 13.3 overs at the College Tuenku Jaffer Oval in Kuala Lumpur. This is Nepal's lowest score in a Women's Twenty20 International.
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Nepal has suffered a bitter defeat to Hong Kong in the ACC Women's Premier Cup cricket. Hong Kong defeated Nepal by 69 runs on Saturday in the ongoing competition in Malaysia.
Chasing a target of 110 runs, Nepal was bowled out for 40 runs in just 13.3 overs at the College Tuenku Jaffer Oval in Kuala Lumpur. This is Nepal's lowest score in a women's Twenty20 International.
Nepal was bowled out for 50 runs both times, against Bangladesh in the 2019 South Asian Games in Pokhara and against Malaysia in Bangi in 2023, which was Nepal's previous lowest score in a women's Twenty20 International.
Nepal defeated China by 8 wickets on Wednesday and Bhutan by 51 runs on Thursday in the first day's match. However, after the defeat to Hong Kong, Nepal has become the runner-up in Group 'D'. Hong Kong has surpassed Nepal in the group. Nepal and Hong Kong had already reached the quarterfinals. Nepal had a very bad start. Opener Bindu Rawal was dismissed in the first over on the first ball she faced. Another opener Samjhana Khadka could also score only 3 runs. Vice-captain Pooja Mahato could also not open her account. Ruby Podar was the third player to be dismissed for a duck. After Bindu, Pooja and Ruby, Hong Kong's Ikra Sahar also dismissed captain Indu Verma. Indu could only score 6 runs. Sahar took 4 wickets for just 4 runs in 4 overs. Soni Pakhrin was out for 12 off 23 balls and Rubina Chhetri was out for 10 off 12 balls. Both hit 2 fours each. Sita Rana Magar and Riya Sharma could also score 1 run each. Manisha Upadhyay became the fourth player to be dismissed for duck in the Nepali innings. Kavita Kunwar remained unbeaten on 4 runs off 8 balls. Apart from Shahar, Chan Carey and Maryam Bibi took 2 wickets each for Hong Kong.
Earlier, Hong Kong, which was invited to bat after Nepal won the toss, scored 109 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Captain and opener Natasha Mills was run out for 6 runs. Another opener Mariko Hill scored 29 runs. She hit 4 fours off 36 balls.
Yasmin Daswani remained unbeaten on 42 runs. She hit 2 fours off 44 balls. Chan Carey was out for 11 runs off 8 balls with 1 six. Marina Lampalgh remained unbeaten on 18 runs off 18 balls with 2 fours. For Nepal, Rubina took 20 runs in 4 overs and Riya Sharma took 1 wicket each for 27 runs in 4 overs.
