Tri-Nation Series: Nepal playing against Papua New Guinea today

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Kathmandu – Nepal is playing against with Papua New Guinea (PNG) today in the tri-nations ODI series in the ICC World Cup Cricket League-2.

The match will start at 9.30 am at the Trivi Cricket Ground, Kirtipur. This is the last series of ICC World Cup Cricket League-2.

Nepal, remaining in the top three, will have to win all the remaining 4 matches to directly qualify for the World Cup in Zimbabwe in June/July.

UAE and Papua New Guinea are in the series along with home team Nepal. Nepal will play the same 2/2 match against UAE and Papua New Guinea.

Nepal will play UAE on Sunday, PNG on Monday and the last match will be against UAE on Thursday. The third, fourth and fifth place teams from the final series will be decided.

If Nepal wins these four matches, it will reach 40 points. Which will be enough to directly qualify for the World Cup and maintain the ODI status.

If Nepal is not in the top three of the rankings, they will have to play a qualifier playoff for World Cup qualification. From which the top two teams will be able to play the World Cup qualifiers.

Likewise, if Nepal fails to finish in the top five in League-2, it will have to finish in the top four in the playoff qualifiers to preserve the ODI status.

To finish in the top five, they will win 2 of the next 4 matches. Nepal has 32 points in 32 games and UAE has 31 points. In the table, Scotland is at the top with 50 points and Oman is at the second position with 44 points.

Papua New Guinea is at the bottom with 9 points from 32 matches. Now Namibia is third with 39 points and America is fourth with 35 points.

Nepal Squad

  1. Rohit Paudel(C),
  2. Dipendrasinh Airey,
  3. Gyanendra Malla,
  4. Asif Sheikh,
  5. Karan KC,
  6. Sompal Kami,
  7. Kushal Bhurtel,
  8. Lalitnarayan Rajvanshi,
  9. Bhim Sarki,
  10. Kushal Malla,
  11. Sandeep Lamichhane,
  12. Gulshan Jha,
  13. Arif Sheikh and
  14. Pratish Jisi
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