KATHMANDU –\u00a0 Nepal has defeated Malaysia in today’s playoff match held under ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup. In the match held at Johar Cricket Academy Oval in Malaysia, Nepal won the match by seven wickets.<\/p>\n
Nepal won the toss and chose to bawl first. Malaysia gathered 45 runs in 16.5 overs at the loss of five wickets. Chasing the target of 46 runs, Nepal completed it in 11.3 overs losing three wickets.<\/p>\n
For Nepal, Captain Puja Mahato contributed 23 runs (not out) in 32 balls while Jyotsinka Marasini and Simana KC seven and four runs respectively. Towards bawling, Marsya Qistina Binti Abdullah of Malaysia took three wickets. Earlier, Nuriman Hidayah of Malaysia made the highest 15 runs while other batters could not make double digit runs.<\/p>\n
Similarly, Puja took four wickets while Rachana Chaudhary three wickets, Riya Sharma and Simana KC one wicket each for Nepal.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Nepal, which is in Group D of the world cup, had lost three group-phase matches to Scotland, Australia and Bangladesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KATHMANDU –\u00a0 Nepal has defeated Malaysia in today’s playoff match held under ICC U-19 Women’s T20 World Cup. In the match held at Johar Cricket Academy Oval in Malaysia, Nepal won the match by seven wickets. Nepal won the toss and chose to bawl first. Malaysia gathered 45 runs in 16.5 overs at the loss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n