In the triangular series under the ICC World Cup Cricket League Two, Nepal won the second consecutive victory over Namibia.
Nepal won their second consecutive victory over Namibia by winning by 3 wickets at the TU Cricket Ground in Kirtipur on Saturday.
This is Nepal's third consecutive win in the ongoing series at home. In the first match of the series, Nepal defeated Namibia by 2 wickets. In the second match, Nepal defeated Scotland by 3 wickets.
Nepal completed the target of 275 runs given by Namibia by losing 7 wickets in 47 overs of 3 balls.
Kushal Malla, Asif Sheikh and former captain Gyanendra Malla scored half-centuries in Nepal's victory.
Asif scored 81 runs off 98 balls with the help of 8 fours and 2 sixes. Asif completed his half century in 62 balls. Asif's sixth half-century for Nepal in ODI.
Gyanendra scored 65 runs off 74 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes. Gyanendra completed his half century in 64 balls.
This is Gyanendra's seventh fifty in ODIs for Nepal. With this half-century, Malla has become the cricketer with the most half-centuries for Nepal.
Kushal scored a half-century in 41 balls with the help of 4 fours and 4 sixes. This is Kushal's third fifty in ODIs.
Gyanendra Malla and Asif Sheikh shared 139 runs for the second wicket for Nepal, who lost the first wicket after scoring 9 runs.
For Nepal, the former captain Malla and opener Sheikh shared the biggest partnership in Nepal's one-day internationals.
There was a record partnership of 139 runs between them for the second wicket.
Before this, Kushal Bhurtel and Rohit Kumar Poudel shared a partnership of 133 runs for the third wicket in the match against Namibia last Tuesday.
Captain Rohit Paudel scored 39 runs off 43 balls. Ruben Trumpelman and Bernard Schott took 2 wickets each for Namibia.
Before that, Namibia, who batted first, scored 2 runs for 74 runs after losing 6 wickets in 50 overs.
John Green played a half-century of 75 runs in 63 balls for him. He hit 11 fours and 1 six. France scored 49 runs.
Lohard Lawrence was out for 41 and Michael Vaughn was out for 22 runs, while Carl Brickstock scored 20 runs. Captain Gerhard Erasmus and Jan Nicol scored 15/15 runs apiece. Namibia scored 84 runs in the last 5 overs.
Nepal's Sandeep Lamichhane took 3 wickets with 46 runs in 10 overs. In addition, Sandeep Lamichhane has completed 50 wickets in World Cup League Two. He is the third overall and the first player from Nepal to complete 50 wickets. Karan KC took 1 wicket.
Nepal also defeated Namibia in the first match on Tuesday. When Nepal won the third match in the Nepal series, Namibia was also defeated in the third match.
Nepal will play Scotland in the last match on Tuesday.
In the series, Nepal is in the sixth position with 24 points in 27 matches. Namibia is third with 37 points from 33 matches.