Nepal will take on Kuwait on Friday at the Bayuemas Oval Cricket Ground in their first match of the second edition of the ACC U-16 Elite Cup being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Nepal are placed in the group B of the tournament along with Malaysia, Kuwait, Iran and Bahrain. Nepali team under the coach Manjur Alam Khan and captain Dipendra Chand is participating in the tournament.
Nepal had defeated Kuwait in the first edition of the ACC U-16 Elite Cup held in Nepal in 2010. Nepal had won the match by 101 runs then as Nischal Pandey had scored 59 runs and taken five wickets in the match.
Current U-16 captain Dipendra Chand and his teammate Jagdish Chand were also the part of the Nepali U-16 team that beat Kuwait in 2010.
Nepal had lost to Singapore in the final of the first edition.