Nepal has suffered a third consecutive defeat in the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup. The Nepalese team were beaten by Australia by a big margin of 83 runs in the final group stage game.
Chasing a big target of 140 runs, Nepal finished the allotted 20 overs at 56/8. Captain Puja Mahato scored a sluggish 18 runs from 42 balls while no other batters managed to cross a double-digit score against a strong Aussie bowling unit.
Nepal were 52/4 until the 18th over but lost four wickets managing only four runs. Lily Bassingthwaighte, Hasrat Gill and Juliette Morton grabbed a couple of wickets each for Australia.
With this, Nepal finished at the bottom of Group D and will face the team that finishes at the bottom of Group A on January 24.
They started a tournament with a five-wicket defeat against Bangladesh and suffered a heartbreaking one-wicket loss in the second match.
AUS-WMN U19139/6 (20)
NEP-WMN U1956/8 (20)Earlier, Australia posted a decent total of 139/6 in 20 overs after opting to bat first.
Australia were in trouble early on – courtesy of Puja Mahato’s fiery opening spell. She picked up one wicket in the first over and two in the third as Australia were 14/3 in the third over. Caoimhe Bray and Eleanor Larosa then shared 72 runs for the fourth wicket with Bray scoring a powerful 45 runs.
Seemana KC picked up two wickets in the 18th over, yet Nepal couldn’t stop the run flow. They added 29 runs from the last two overs. Eleanor Larosa scored 31 whereas Hasrat Gill made a quick unbeaten 30 runs, supported by Chloe Ainsworth’s 16 runs.
For Nepal Puja Mahato was a pick of a bowler with three wickets (4-0-31-3). Seemana KC grabbed two whereas Riya Sharma grabbed one scalp.
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