Nepal wrapped up its ICC World Cup Qualifiers campaign with a consolation win on Tuesday thumping Uganda by 160 runs in the ninth place playoff played at the Bay Oval 2 in New Zealand.
Nepal elected to bat first and scored 240 runs losing all the wickets with two balls to spare and bowled out Uganda for 80 runs in 36.3 overs. The first victory in the last match of the Qualifiers campaign put a brake on Nepal’s five match losing streak in the tournament.
Earlier, Nepal had lost all four matches of the group stage against UAE, Scotland, Hong Kong and Canada and finished at the rock bottom of five team group. Similarly, Nepal had gone down by seven wickets against the Netherlands in the seventh place playoff match on Sunday.
Middle order batsmen Prtihu Baskota (59) and Sharad Vesawkar (41) were the highest run contributors for Nepal.
On Tuesday as well, Nepali failed to get bright start as it lost openers Mahesh Chhetri (19) and Pradeep Airee (23) and third batsmen Gyanedra Malla (8) with 70 runs on board. Captain Paras Khadka gave some resistance scoring 30 off 56 that included two fours.
Binod Bhandari fired 35 off 21.
Charles Waiswa claimed three wickets of Nepal while Faruk Ochimi and Davis Karashani picked two wickets apiece.
In the Uganda´s run chase, all rounder Sagar Pun claimed three wickets as only three batsmen managed to step on double digit figure.
Sompal Kami and Shakti Guachan pocketed two wickets each.