Nepal beat Oman by six wickets at Unity, Kuwait to register the second in the ACC Trophy Elite 2010 on Friday.
Paras Khadka takes man of the match trophy. Photo by CricketKuwait.com
Oman scored 169/9 in 50 overs after electing to bat first. Nepal needed 38.3 overs to overcome the score and lost four wickets.
Anil Mandal and Mahesh Chhetri once again provided a solid opening partnership adding 63 runs. Anil, who had scored 72 two days earlier against Hong Kong, was caught behind at 39 off Aamir Ali.
Anil played 45 balls and his seven fours in his innings.
Mahesh made 35 off 69 with four boundaries before becoming the second victim for Ali.
A run-a-ball 53-run partnership came from Basant Regmi, who was elevated in the batting order, and captain Paras Khadka.
Paras was run out at 29 off 28 balls with six fours. Basant made 29 off 32 with five fours before falling at 135. Ali completed three wickets.
Sharad Vesawkar (22 not out off 31) and Dipendra Chaudhary (14 not out off 26) completed the victory for Nepal with 11.3 overs remaining.
Earlier, opening pacers Mehboob Alam and Amrit Bhattarai, who replaced Binod Das, took a wicket each to put Oman on backfoot at 4/2.
A half-century from Vaibhav Wategaonkar and handy contributions from Adnan Ilyas (22), Sultan Ahmed (20) and Ali (24) helped their score.
Wategaonkar scored 56 off 104 balls with four boundaries. Rahul BK was pick of the bowlers taking three wickets (3/32) while Shakti Gauchan grabbed two. Sanjam Regmi got one.
Paras Khadka was named man of the match for his 29 runs and a wicket. He also held two catches.
| Round | League |
| Toss | Oman |
| Umpires | Riaz Chaudhry ( Kuwait) & Muhammad Irfan Adil ( Kuwait) |
| Scorers | Shahnawaz Soomro (Pakistan) & Naveed Mehboob ( Pak |
| Player / Match | Paras Khadka |
| Match referee | Kaleem ul Hasan ( Kuwait) |
| Oman Innings 169/9 (Overs 50) |
| Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Bls | 4s | 6s |
| H Desai | b M Alam | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| D Trividi | b A Bhattarai | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| V Wategaonkar | c A Bhattarai | b SP Gauchan | 56 | 104 | 4 | 0 |
| A Ilyas | c A Bhattarai | b SP Gauchan | 22 | 52 | 3 | 0 |
| S Ahmed*+ | run out A Bhattarai | 20 | 31 | 0 | 0 | |
| A Ali | c P Khadka | b R Biwhwakarma | 24 | 42 | 2 | 0 |
| A Khan | c P Khadka | b R Biwhwakarma | 8 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| S Mehmood | b S Regmi | 9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| ST Hussain | st M Chhetri | b R Biwhwakarma | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| K Rashid | not out | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| H Ali | not out | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| extras | (b0 lb2 w5 nb0) | 7 | ||||
| TOTAL | 9 wickets for | 169 |
| FOW |
| 1-0 2-4 3-53 4-98 5-119 6-140 7-147 8-151 9-153 |
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | wd | nb |
| M Alam | 6 | 1 | 22 | 1 | 3 | – |
| A Bhattarai | 7 | 2 | 22 | 1 | – | – |
| P Khadka | 3 | 0 | 8 | 0 | – | – |
| SP Gauchan | 9 | 0 | 23 | 2 | 1 | – |
| S Regmi | 9 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 1 | – |
| B Regmi | 8 | 0 | 27 | 0 | – | – |
| R Biwhwakarma | 8 | 1 | 32 | 3 | 1 | – |
| Nepal Innings 172/4 (Overs 38.3) |
| Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Bls | 4s | 6s |
| M Chhetri+ | c&b A Ali | 35 | 69 | 4 | 0 | |
| A Mandal | c S Ahmed | b A Ali | 39 | 45 | 7 | 0 |
| B Regmi | st S Ahmed | b A Ali | 29 | 32 | 5 | 0 |
| P Khadka* | run out A Khan | 29 | 28 | 6 | 0 | |
| S Vesawkar | not out | 22 | 31 | 2 | 0 | |
| D Chaudhary | not out | 14 | 26 | 1 | 0 | |
| SP Gauchan | dnb | – | ||||
| M Alam | dnb | – | ||||
| A Bhattarai | dnb | – | ||||
| S Regmi | dnb | – | ||||
| R Biwhwakarma | dnb | – | ||||
| extras | (b0 lb2 w2 nb0) | 4 | ||||
| TOTAL | 4 wickets for | 172 |
| FOW |
| 1-63(A Mandal) 2-80(M Chhetri) 3-133(P Khadka) 4-135(B Regmi) |
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | wd | nb |
| H Ali | 9 | 2 | 41 | 0 | – | – |
| H Desai | 2 | 0 | 11 | 0 | – | – |
| K Rashid | 6 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 1 | – |
| D Trividi | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | – | – |
| ST Hussain | 7.3 | 1 | 27 | 0 | – | – |
| A Ali | 10 | 0 | 48 | 3 | 1 | – |
| A Khan | 3 | 0 | 17 | 0 | – | – |