Nepal women's cricket team win over Hong Kong

UPDATED at 2: 37 pm

KATHMANDU: Nepal women's cricket team have won their fourth match against Hong Kong by 6 runs during the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifying Series Asia Region at Kowloon Cricket Club of Hong Kong, on Thursday.

Hong Kong's innings concluded at 69 runs when they lost all their wickets in 17.4 overs. They fell short of 7 runs from reaching the target of 76 runs Nepal had posted.

Nepal's Karuna Bhandari took three wickets including that of Kanwardeep Keenu Gill, Marina Lamplough and Jenefer Davies. She was named the player of the match.

Kary Chan scored 18 runs off 22 balls, Mariko Hill scored 13 off 16 balls and Keenu Gill scored 10 off 19 balls.

Hong Kong had 10 extras.

This is Nepal's second win in the series.

In the last match with Hong Kong on October 9, Nepal had lost by six wickets.

Fall of wickets:

1-9 (Sze Wan Yip, 2.1 ov), 2-33 (Chan, 7.3 ov), 3-33 (Gill, 8.1 ov), 4-37 (Shanzeen Shahzad, 9.3 ov), 5-41 (Lamplough, 10.2 ov), 6-44 (Chan Sau Har, 10.5 ov), 7-52 (Gidwani, 12.3 ov), 8-52 (Davies, 12.4 ov), 9-58 (Hill, 13.4 ov), 10-69 (Chan Ka Man, 17.4 ov)

Nepal women's cricket team post 76-run target to Hong Kong

KATHMANDU: Nepal women's cricket team have posted a 76-run target to the Hong Kong team during their fourth match of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifying Series Asia Region at Kowloon Cricket Club of Hong Kong, on Thursday.

Nepal completed the first innings making 75 runs in the 20 overs at a loss of eight wickets.

The Nepali team had won the toss and elected to bat first.

Much like their previous matches, the Nepali team failed to score more and most of them were not able to contribute more than 15 runs to the scoreboard. Karuna Bhandari (not out) scored 19 runs from 27 balls.

Indu Verma scored 15 runs off 26 balls, Jyoti Pandey 11 off 22 balls and Nary Thapa scored 10 off 12 balls. Others were restricted within five runs.

The innings had 5 extras.

For Hong Kong, Chan Ka Man took three wickets, Kanwardeep Keenu Gill took two and Mariko Hill took one.

In another match played earlier today, China beat Thailand in a close contest. Winning the toss, Thailand had batted first and made 86/7 in 20 overs. China had met the target with four balls to spare.

After losing two previous matches to Hong Kong and Thailand, Nepal had beaten China in their match on Tuesday.

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Fall of wickets:

1-2 (SR Magar, 1.2 ov), 2-5 (Shahi, 2.1 ov), 3-9 (Shrestha, 3.3 ov), 4-29 (Pandey, 8.2 ov), 5-46 (Verma, 12.1 ov), 6-47 (Nary Thapa, 13.1 ov), 7-61 (S Magar, 17.4 ov), 8-71 (Belbashi, 19.3 ov)