Nepal certified for final yr’s T20 World Cup and got here inside a whisker of beating South Africa, who went on to achieve the ultimate.
Underneath the steerage of latest coach Stuart Regulation they’re bidding to achieve each the 2026 T20 World Cup and the 50-over model in 2027 and are at the moment in Glasgow for a tri-series with Scotland and the Netherlands.
The dramatic performances by Nepal throughout a latest spherical of Cricket World Cup League 2 matches – a part of the qualifying pathway for the following 50-over World Cup – with the identical opponents in Dundee underlined their nickname the ‘Cardiac youngsters’.
Anyone who witnessed their last-ball heroics towards Scotland, and the following pitch invasion by passionate Nepalese followers, will testify to its accuracy.
“I assume it is the way in which we’ve performed our cricket for the previous 10 years or so. Each sport appears to go all the way down to the wire,” Nepal skipper Rohit Paudel instructed BBC Sport.
“So I believe the title ‘cardiac youngsters’ comes since you by no means know the way we will come again from a nasty place to win a sport. We’re all the time preventing proper till the tip of a match even when the prospect of successful is perhaps small.
“Nepal performed towards MCC in 2016 and we received that sport at Lord’s so it will be nice if we may play England there in a Check match sooner or later. It might be a proud day not only for cricket, however for our nation as a complete.”
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