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2020–21 Nepal Tri-Nation Series

2020–21 Nepal Tri-Nation Series
Date	17–24 April 2021
Location	Nepal
Result	Nepal won the series
Player of the series	Kushal Bhurtel
Teams  Malaysia    Nepal  Netherlands Captains Ahmad Faiz Gyanendra Malla Pieter Seelaar Most runs Virandeep Singh (120) Kushal Bhurtel (278) Max O'Dowd (172) Most wickets Muhammad Wafiq (3) Anwar Rahman (3) Sandeep Lamichhane (13) Sebastiaan Braat (5)
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The 2020–21 Nepal Tri-Nation Series was a Twenty20 international cricket tournament that took place in April 2021 in Nepal.^[1][2] The participating teams were Nepal, Malaysia and the Netherlands.^[3] The matches were all played at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket GroundinKirtipur.^[4][5] The tournament was played in a double round-robin format, followed by a final between the top two sides.^[6][7]

The penultimate round-robin match, between Malaysia and the Netherlands, ended in a tie.^[8] It was a rain-curtailed game with no Super Over taking place due to the lost time.^[9] This result meant that the Netherlands and Nepal advanced to the final.^[10] Nepal defeated the Netherlands in the final by 142 runs to win the series.^[11][12]

Squads[edit]

Malaysia[13]	Nepal[14]	Netherlands[15]
Ahmad Faiz (c) Virandeep Singh (vc) Anwar Arudin Syed Aziz Ainool Hafizs Khizar Hayat Syazrul Idrus Dhivendran Mogan Sharvin Muniandy Anwar Rahman Aminuddin Ramly Fitri Sham Shafiq Sharif Pavandeep Singh Muhammad Wafiq	Gyanendra Malla (c) Dipendra Singh Airee (vc) Kamal Singh Airee Shahab Alam Binod Bhandari Sushan Bhari Kushal Bhurtel Abinash Bohara Sundeep Jora Sompal Kami Karan KC Paras Khadka Sandeep Lamichhane Kushal Malla Aarif Sheikh Aasif Sheikh	Pieter Seelaar (c) Philippe Boissevain Sebastiaan Braat Ben Cooper Bas de Leede Julian de Mey Aryan Dutt Scott Edwards Vivian Kingma Max O'Dowd Vikramjit Singh Antonius Staal Paul van Meekeren Tobias Visee

Netherlands coach Ryan Campbell selected a squad missing several English county-based players and the New Zealand-based Logan van Beek.^[16] Malaysia's coach Bilal Asad named an experienced squad including captain Ahmad Faiz, vice-captain Virandeep Singh and former national captain Anwar Arudin.^[17] The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) initially named a preliminary squad of twenty players, with senior players Basant Regmi and Sharad Vesawkar rested.^[18] Nepal announced their final squad of fifteen players on 14 April.^[19][20] The day before the tournament, Paras Khadka was ruled out of the series due to a shoulder injury and replaced by Sundeep Jora.^[21]

Round robin[edit]

Points table[edit]

Team	P	W	L	T	NR	Pts	NRR
Nepal	4	3	1	0	0	6	+2.507
Netherlands	4	2	1	1	0	5	–0.425
Malaysia	4	0	3	1	0	1	–2.359

Source: ESPN Cricinfo

Fixtures[edit]

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Shahab Alam, Kushal Bhurtel, Aasif Sheikh (Nep), Julian de Mey and Aryan Dutt (Ned) all made their T20I debuts.

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
• Max O'Dowd became the first batsman for the Netherlands to score a century in T20Is.^[22]

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.

• Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.
• Kushal Bhurtel became the first player to score a half century in each of his first three T20I matches.^[23]

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to field.
• Malaysia were set a revised target of 92 runs from 10 overs due to rain.

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to field.
• Kamal Singh Airee (Nep) made his T20I debut.

Final[edit]

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.
• Kushal Malla became the youngest player to score a half century in a T20I; he already held the record in ODI matches.^[24]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo