In their first group match under the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, Nepal lost to the Netherlands by 6 wickets.
The target of 107 runs given by Nepal was completed by the Netherlands by losing 4 wickets in 18.4 overs. For the Netherlands, opener Max O’Dowd scored the highest 54 runs while remaining unbeaten. He played 48 balls and hit 4 fours and 1 six. Similarly, Bikramjit Singh added 22 runs and Saebrand Engelbrecht added 14 runs. Bas de Lied scored 11 unbeaten runs.
For Nepal, Sompal Kami, Dipendra Singh Airi and Abhinash Bohra took one wicket each.
Before that, Nepal, who lost the toss and batted first at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas, scored 106 runs after losing all wickets in 19.2 overs.
Nepal, which is playing the T20 World Cup for the second time after a decade, was aiming to get off to a good start in the first match. But Nepal’s batting was not good against the strong team of Associate Cricket, Netherlands.