Nepal defeated Hong Kong by 118 runs in the opening match of the ACC Trophy 2010 Elite at the Unity Ground, Kuwait on Wednesday.
Winning the toss, Nepal decided to bat first and scored 236/7 in 50 overs. Defending champions Hong Kong could only manage 118 in 33.3 overs.
Anil Mandal and Shakti Gauchan scored half-centuries for Nepal. They added 118 runs for the second wicket – the best partnership for that wicket to create the foundation.
Man of the match Anil got 72 while Shakti scored 68.
Mehboob Alam (31) and Dipendra Chaudhary (28 not out) got quick runs to accelerate the run-rate. Binod Das got 11 not out. Hong Kong´s Nadeem Ahmed grabbed three wickets.
In reply, Hong Kong were on the back foot as Mehboob Alam grabbed three and Binod Das got one. Basant Regmi later took two wickets while Paras Khadka and Shakti Gauchan each claimed a wicket.
“We just need to keep on winning,” Paras who felt that Nepal scored a little less said. “In other competitions we’ve just lost one game and found ourselves out. We just need to win all of them this time.”
Roy Lamsam, Hong Kong’s captain felt his batsmen let him down, “There was too much inexperience. On this track we should have scored a lot more. We bowled and fielded well but we really need to play better”
Nepal will next meet Oman at the same venue on April 2.
| Round | League |
| Toss | Nepal |
| Umpires | Irfan Adil (Kuwait) & Younis Rasheed (Bahrain) |
| Scorers | Waseem Abbas (Pakistan) Maznah Maulod (Singapore) |
| MoM | Mandal, Anil Kumar |
| Match Ref | Kaleem ul Hassan (Kuwait) |
| Nepal Innings 236/7 (Overs 50) |
| Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Bls | 4s | 6s |
| M Chhetri+ | lbw | b A Khan | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| A Mandal | run out J Iqbal | 72 | 96 | 8 | 3 | |
| SP Gauchan | b N Ahmed | 65 | 93 | 6 | 0 | |
| P Khadka* | b M Ahmed | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| S Vesawkar | c&b M Ahmed | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| M Alam | b N Ahmed | 31 | 36 | 1 | 2 | |
| D Chaudhary | not out | 28 | 24 | 1 | 1 | |
| B Regmi | c N Khan | b N Ahmed | 10 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| B Das | not out | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| S Regmi | dnb | – | ||||
| R Biwhwakarma | dnb | – | ||||
| extras | (b3 lb3 w6 nb0) | 12 | ||||
| TOTAL | 7 wickets for | 236 |
| FOW |
| 1-2(M Chhetri) 2-120(A Mandal) 3-126(P Khadka) 4-132(S Vesawkar) 5-171(SP Gauchan) 6-186(M Alam) 7-215(B Regmi) |
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | wd | nb |
| A Khan | 5 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 1 | – |
| I Ahmad | 6 | 1 | 28 | 0 | – | – |
| Asif Khan | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 1 | – |
| N Ahmed | 10 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 2 | – |
| J Iqbal | 10 | 0 | 48 | 0 | – | – |
| M Ahmed | 9 | 2 | 23 | 2 | – | – |
| MI Gull | 7 | 0 | 42 | 0 | 1 | – |
| Hong Kong Innings 118 All Out (Overs 33.3) |
| Batsman | Fieldsman | Bowler | Runs | Bls | 4s | 6s |
| R Lamsam* | c M Chhetri | b M Alam | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| M Ahmed | b M Alam | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| KH Butt | b B Das | 15 | 19 | 2 | 0 | |
| MI Gull | c SP Gauchan | b M Alam | 27 | 29 | 5 | 0 |
| N Khan | b P Khadka | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| I Ahmad | c M Alam | b SP Gauchan | 19 | 31 | 1 | 0 |
| W Barkat+ | run out P Khadka | 19 | 41 | 0 | 0 | |
| J Iqbal | c P Khadka | b R Biwhwakarma | 16 | 30 | 1 | 0 |
| N Ahmed | c S Regmi | b B Regmi | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| A Khan | c D Chaudhary | b B Regmi | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 |
| Asif Khan | not out | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| extras | (b0 lb3 w6 nb0) | 9 | ||||
| TOTAL | 10 wickets for | 118 |
| FOW |
| 1-1(M Ahmed) 2-13(M Ahmed) 3-31(KH Butt) 4-54(MI Gull) 5-56(N Khan) 6-91(I Ahmad) 7-98(W Barkat) 8-99(N Ahmed) 9-112(A Khan) 10-118(J Iqbal) |
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | wd | nb |
| M Alam | 7 | 1 | 33 | 3 | – | – |
| B Das | 5 | 0 | 27 | 1 | – | – |
| P Khadka | 4 | 0 | 12 | 1 | – | – |
| B Regmi | 8 | 1 | 17 | 2 | – | – |
| SP Gauchan | 5 | 1 | 13 | 1 | – | – |
| S Regmi | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | – | – |
| R Biwhwakarma | 2.3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | – | – |