2020–21 Nepal Tri-Nation Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date | 17–24 April 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Nepal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Result | Nepal won the series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Player of the series | Kushal Bhurtel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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 Ground in Kirtipur. [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]
Malaysia [13] | Nepal [14] | Netherlands [15] |
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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]
Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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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
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