Nepalese cricket team in Malaysia in 2019

The Nepal cricket team toured Malaysia in July 2019 to play a two-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series.^[1][2] The fixtures were part of both teams' preparation for the Asian Regional Qualifying Finals tournament for the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier.^[1][2] Both matches were played at the Kinrara Oval in Kuala Lumpur.^[1][2] Ahead of the tour, Nepal's captain Paras Khadka named a twenty five-man preliminary squad for the Asian Regional Qualifying Finals,^[3][4] which was trimmed down to the final fourteen players.^[5] Nepal won the series 2–0, their first ever series whitewash.^[6] Malaysia retained the same squad for Asian Regional Qualifying Finals.^[7]

Nepalese cricket team in Malaysia in 2019
	Malaysia	Nepal
Dates	13 – 14 July 2019
Captains	Ahmad Faiz	Paras Khadka
Twenty20 International series
Results	Nepal won the 2-match series 2–0
Most runs	Virandeep Singh (80)	Paras Khadka (109)
Most wickets	Fitri Sham (4)	Karan KC (4) Sandeep Lamichhane (4)

Squads

Malaysia[2]	Nepal[8]
Ahmad Faiz (c) Anwar Arudin Syed Aziz Neville Liyanage Sharvin Muniandy Anwar Rahman Nazril Rahman Aminuddin Ramly Fitri Sham Shafiq Sharif (wk) Pavandeep Singh Virandeep Singh Pasha Syafiq Ali (wk) Muhamad Syahadat	Paras Khadka (c) Gyanendra Malla (vc) Dipendra Singh Airee Pradeep Airee (wk) Binod Bhandari (wk) Abinash Bohara Karan KC Sompal Kami Sandeep Lamichhane Rohit Paudel Lalit Rajbanshi Basanta Regmi Pawan Sarraf Sharad Vesawkar

T20I series

1st T20I

13 July 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Malaysia  128/9 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 129/3 (18.3 overs)
Virandeep Singh 57 (49) Karan KC 3/27 (4 overs)		Paras Khadka 86* (50) Anwar Rahman 2/20 (4 overs)

Nepal won by 7 wickets Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Denish Sevakumaran (Mas) Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Nep)

• Malaysia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Pavandeep Singh (Mas) made his T20I debut.

2nd T20I

14 July 2019 10:00 Scorecard

Nepal    173/6 (20 overs)	v	Malaysia 167/7 (20 overs)
Binod Bhandari 51* (25) Fitri Sham 3/26 (3 overs)		Syed Aziz 50 (37) Sompal Kami 2/25 (4 overs)

Nepal won by 6 runs Kinrara Oval, Kuala Lumpur Umpires: Viswanadan Kalidas (Mas) and Narayanan Sivan (Mas) Player of the match: Binod Bhandari (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.