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Nepal shocked the West Indies by a grounds 90 runs and won their Twenty20 bid with a lucifer to spare.
Nepal played the two-time satellite champion for the archetypal clip connected Saturday (September 27, 2025) and earned an historical triumph by 19 runs and its archetypal triumph implicit an ICC afloat member.
Monday's (September 29, 2025) effect was adjacent much impressive.
Nepal made 173-6 with career-best 60s from Aasif Sheikh and Sundeep Jora, past West Indies was bowled retired for 83 successful 17.1 overs.
Medium-pacer Mohammad Aadil Alam took a career-best 4-24 successful his ninth T20.
A second-string West Indies debuted a 5th subordinate successful the series, 19-year-old leg-spinner Zishan Motara, and plunged to a caller low.
In July, the trial squad was each retired for 27 against Australia successful Kingston, the 2nd lowest full successful men's trial history.
The 83 connected Monday (September 29, 2025) was the lowest full by a afloat subordinate broadside against an subordinate squad successful T20s, 5 little than England made against the Netherlands successful the 2014 T20 World Cup.
Nepal's 90-run triumph was the biggest by runs by an subordinate squad against a afloat subordinate successful T20s.
“For us, it's conscionable astir knowing truly accelerated that this is planetary cricket,” West Indies skipper Akeal Hosein said. “If you effort to benchmark yourself present and can't lucifer the level, past you request to look successful the reflector and inquire yourself if you're truly planetary material.”
Hosein's 2 wickets helped to trim Nepal to 43-3, past Sheikh and Jora combined for 100 runs successful 11 overs.
Opening batter Sheikh struck an unbeaten 68 disconnected 47 balls and Jora deed 63 disconnected 39 with 5 sixes.
Only 3 West Indies players got into treble figures, led by Jason Holder's 21.
“We are precise happy,” Nepal skipper Rohit Paudel said. "It took a batch to triumph against a test-playing country.
“This was a precise important bid for america to showcase our cricket and endowment to the world. The mode we've been playing the past 2 oregon 3 years, tons of eyes are connected us. The information is to implicit a cleanable sweep.”
The 3rd and past T20 is connected Tuesday (September 30, 2025).
