Nepali team win first practice match in New Zealand
AUSTRALIA, JAN 02 - Nepali National Cricket Team has registered an easy eight wicket victory over a local team of New Zealand , Canterbury Selection Team, at Christchurch on Thursday. The Nepali team registered a victory against the local team during a practice match prior to the World-cup qualifiers.
The Canterbury team which opted to bat first scored 204 runs losing all of their wickets at the 49.3 over. Jeff Case put up 88 runs for the locals followed by Simon Keen contributing 47 runs in the scoreboard.
Sagar Pun and Sompal Kami of the Nepali team took four wickets each of the home team and Basanta Regmi pocketed two wickets in his name.
Meanwhile, the Nepali national team chased down the target in 33.2 over with the loss of two wickets. For Nepal's win Anil Mandal scored 99 runs without loosing his wicket while Gyanendra Malla contributed 51 runs and Subash Khakurel added another 31 with captain Paras Khadka's 5 runs not out. The match played with the much celebrated local team was scheduled earlier which had to be rescheduled for today due to whether conditions.
Speaking with eKantipur after the match, Nepali Cricket team manager Purna Lama said the match played today was an important one hence the match was scheduled with the local team. After a few more matches with the local teams Nepal will be playing other practice match es with the National teams of Namibia and Kenya on 10 and 11 January.
The World-cup qualifier matches kicks off at 13 January.
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