Nepal register enormous wins over Singapore with help of record setting partnership of 135 runs between opener duo Anil Mandal and Mahesh Chhetri. Both misses ton but ease the path for semifinal. The previous best partnership for all wickets was between Paras Khadka and Sharad Vesawkar. Paras and Vesawkar had put on 130-run for the fourth wicket against Fiji during the ICC World Cricket League Division-V in Kathmandu.
Batting first, Singapore manage the good total of 216 runs in 49 overs but fail to defend as Nepal achieve the total in 43.2 overs losing 3 wickets. Philip Childs top score 40 off 51 delivery included 3 hits to fence. Buddhika Mendis, Chetan Suryabanshi, Munish Arora, Saad Januja and Dharmichand Mulema contributed 36, 32, 31, 29 and 17 runs respectively. Shakti Gauchan took 2 wickets for Nepal. Rahul BK, Basanta Regmi and Sanjam Regmi shared one wicket each. Nepali fielders effects 5 run out with their brilliant fielding.
Besides Anil (83) and Mahesh (87), Paras Khadka scored 8 runs. Sharad Vesawkar and Dipendra Chaudhary remain unbeaten in 18 and 9 runs. Mahesh Chhetri declared Man of Match for his big score. Nepal will face Kuwait in the last league match on April 6.
Full scoreboard
NEPAL v SINGAPORE at KOC Unity April 3, 2010 |
Singapore won the toss and chose to bat
| SINGAPORE | R | B | 4s | 6s | ||
| †Chetan Suryawanshi | c Bhattarai b B.Regmi | 32 | 41 | 3 | 1 | |
| Buddhika Mendis | run out (Bhattarai) | 36 | 72 | 4 | 0 | |
| Munish Arora | c Chettri b Gauchan | 31 | 55 | 1 | 1 | |
| Philip Childs | c+b Gauchan | 40 | 51 | 3 | 0 | |
| Narender Reddy | st Chettri b Vishvakarma | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sagar Kulkarni | run out (Bhattarai) | 8 | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| *Saad Janjua | run out (S.Regmi) | 29 | 22 | 4 | 0 | |
| Pramodh Raja | run out (Khadka) | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dharmichand Mulewa | c Alam b S.Regmi | 17 | 17 | 1 | 1 | |
| Muhammad Ali | not out | 6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Shoib Razzak | run out (Gauchan) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extras: w10 | 10 | |||||
| Total | 216 all out off 49 overs | |||||
1-66 (14.1 overs, Mendis 27*), 2-88 (23.4 overs, Arora 12*), 3-122 (31.2 overs, Childs 14*), 4-143 (34.4 overs, Childs 27*), 5-157 (37.5 overs, Childs 34*), 6-166 (39.5 overs, Janjua 2*), 7-168 (41.3 overs, Janjua 4*), 8-197 (45.3 overs, Janjua 16*), 9-216 (48.5 overs, Ali 6*)
| NEPAL | O | M | R | W |
| Mahaboob Alam | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| Amrit Bhattarai | 5 | 1 | 20 | 0 |
| Paras Khadka | 9 | 1 | 26 | 0 |
| Basant Regmi | 10 | 0 | 45 | 1 |
| Sanjam Regmi | 9 | 0 | 41 | 1 |
| Shakti Gauchan | 5 | 0 | 26 | 2 |
| Rahul Vishvakarma | 6 | 0 | 32 | 1 |
| NEPAL | R | B | 4s | 6s | ||
| †Mahesh Chettri | c Razzak b Childs | 87 | 111 | 8 | 0 | |
| Anil Mandal | b S.Janjua | 83 | 93 | 7 | 1 | |
| *Paras Khadka | c Suryawanshi b Raja | 8 | 13 | 1 | 0 | |
| Sharad Vesawkar | not out | 18 | 38 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dipendra Choudhry | not out | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | |
| Basant Regmi | DNB | |||||
| Shakti Gauchan | DNB | |||||
| Mahaboob Alam | DNB | |||||
| Amrit Bhattarai | DNB | |||||
| Sanjam Regmi | DNB | |||||
| Rahul Vishvakarma | DNB | |||||
| Extras: nb1, w9, lb2, b1 | 12 | |||||
| Total | 217 for 3 off 43.2 overs | |||||
1-135 (26.5 overs), 2-159 (31.1 overs), 3-204 (41.1 overs)
| SINGAPORE | O | M | R | W |
| Saad Janjua | 9 | 2 | 46 | 0 |
| Muhammad Ali | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Philip Childs | 3.2 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
| Shoib Razzak | 6 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Buddhika Mendis | 4 | 1 | 17 | 0 |
| Narender Reddy | 3 | 0 | 26 | 0 |
| Dharmichand Mulewa | 7 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
| Pramodh Raja | 7 | 0 | 21 | 1 |
NEPAL WON BY SEVEN WICKETS
Man of the Match: Mahesh Chhetri (Nepal)
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