Canada Set To Host Nepal!

Canada’s National Men’s Senior Team will oppose their Nepal counterpart in two 50 Overs matches during the first week of July. 2022. The matches, which have been scheduled to take place on July 5th and 6th, will both be played at King City’s Maple Leaf Cricket Club.
Canada’s team for the two matches is expected to be led by its current Captain Navneet Dhaliwal.
As an Associate Member since 1996, Nepal is now 19th ranked as an ICC ODI team. Nicknamed the “Rhinos”Nepal plays in the ICC’s League 2 under its captain Sandeep Lamichhane and recently reappointed Head Coach Pubudu Dassanayake.
Unlike some other smaller cricketing nations, where teams are largely made up of expatriates, Nepal’s national team comprises indigenous players who have usually come through the ranks playing age-group cricket.
On 15 March 2018 Nepal claimed One Day International (ODI) status for the first time with a win over Papua New Guinea in the 2018 Cricket World Cup Qualifier 9th place play-off encounter. In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Nepal and other ICC members after 1 January 2019 became full T20I matches.

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