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KATHMANDU: The Cricket Association of Nepal on Sunday announced 14-member squad for the Asia Qualifiers of the ICC U-19 Men's Cricket World Cup.

The Qualifiers will be held in the United Arab Emirates next month.

Aakash Tripathi, Arjun Kumal, Dipak Bohara, Deepak Bohara, Uttam Thapa Magar, Dipak Dumbre, Dipesh Kandel, Hemant Dhami, Durgesh Gupta, Gulshan Jha, Dev Khanal, Subash Bhandari, Bishal KC and Milan Bohara were included in the final squad, while Prajwal Thapa, Tul Bahadur Thapa, Nirmal Thapa and Rajesh Yadav have been kept as reserves.

Six teams - Nepal, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Kuwait - will fight for a place in the U-19 World Cup to be held in Sri Lanka next year.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 23, 2023, of The Himalayan Times.