Nepalese cricket team in the United Arab Emirates in 2018–19

The Nepal cricket team toured the United Arab Emirates in January and February 2019 to play three One Day Internationals (ODIs) and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches,^[1] with all the fixtures taking place at the ICC Academy Ground in Dubai.^[2]

Nepalese cricket team in the UAE in 2018–19
	United Arab Emirates	Nepal
Dates	25 January – 3 February 2019
Captains	Mohammad Naveed	Paras Khadka
One Day International series
Results	Nepal won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Shaiman Anwar (98)	Paras Khadka (156)
Most wickets	Imran Haider (7)	Sompal Kami (7) Sandeep Lamichhane (7)
Twenty20 International series
Results	Nepal won the 3-match series 2–1
Most runs	Shaiman Anwar (103)	Sundeep Jora (82)
Most wickets	Mohammad Naveed (5) Sultan Ahmed (5)	Abinash Bohara (6)
Player of the series	Abinash Bohara (Nep)

Nepal played their first ever ODI series against the Netherlands in August 2018, drawing the two-match series 1–1.^[3] Nepal and the United Arab Emirates also played an ODI match against each other later the same month, in the 2018 Asia Cup Qualifier, with the UAE winning by 78 runs.^[4] On 1 January 2019, Nepal's head coach Jagat Tamata and captain Paras Khadka named a twenty-man preliminary squad for the tour.^[5][6]

The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) announced their squad without their regular captain Rohan Mustafa, as he was suspended for breaching the ECB's Player's Code of Conduct. Mohammad Naveed replaced him as the captain of the team for the series.^[7][8]

Nepal won the ODI series 2–1, their first-ever ODI series win.^[9] In the third match, Nepal's captain, Paras Khadka, scored the first ODI century by a batsman for Nepal.^[10] Nepal also won the T20I series 2–1.^[11]

Squads

ODIs		T20Is
United Arab Emirates[12]	Nepal[13]	United Arab Emirates[14]	Nepal[13]
Mohammad Naveed (c) Muhammad Usman (vc) Ashfaq Ahmed Qadeer Ahmed Sultan Ahmed Shaiman Anwar Mohammad Boota Imran Haider Amir Hayat Zahoor Khan Tahir Mughal Fahad Nawaz Chundangapoyil Rizwan Ghulam Shabber Abdul Shakoor Chirag Suri	Paras Khadka (c) Gyanendra Malla (vc) Dipendra Singh Airee Pradeep Airee Binod Bhandari Abinash Bohara Sundeep Jora Sompal Kami Karan KC Sandeep Lamichhane Rohit Paudel Lalit Rajbanshi Basanta Regmi Pawan Sarraf Bhim Sharki Aarif Sheikh	Mohammad Naveed (c) Muhammad Usman (vc) Ashfaq Ahmed Qadeer Ahmed Sultan Ahmed Shaiman Anwar Mohammad Boota Imran Haider Amir Hayat Zahoor Khan Fahad Nawaz Chundangapoyil Rizwan Ghulam Shabber Abdul Shakoor Chirag Suri	Paras Khadka (c) Gyanendra Malla (vc) Dipendra Singh Airee Pradeep Airee Binod Bhandari Abinash Bohara Sundeep Jora Sompal Kami Karan KC Sandeep Lamichhane Rohit Paudel Lalit Rajbanshi Basanta Regmi Pawan Sarraf Bhim Sharki Aarif Sheikh

ODI series

1st ODI

25 January 2019 09:30 Scorecard

Nepal    113 (33.5 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 116/7 (32.1 overs)
Sompal Kami 30 (47) Amir Hayat 3/19 (7.5 overs)		Ghulam Shabber 30 (48) Paras Khadka 2/23 (7 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 3 wickets ICC Academy Ground, Dubai Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Amir Hayat (UAE)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
• Fahad Nawaz (UAE), Binod Bhandari, Lalit Rajbanshi and Pawan Sarraf (Nep) all made their ODI debuts.
• Mohammad Naveed captained the United Arab Emirates for the first time in ODIs.^[15]

2nd ODI

26 January 2019 09:30 Scorecard

Nepal    242/9 (50 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 97 (19.3 overs)
Rohit Paudel 55 (58) Amir Hayat 3/41 (10 overs)		Muhammad Usman 26 (39) Sompal Kami 5/33 (6.3 overs)

Nepal won by 145 runs ICC Academy Ground, Dubai Umpires: Iftikhar Ali (UAE) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Sompal Kami (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.
• Chundangapoyil Rizwan (UAE) made his ODI debut.
• Rohit Paudel (Nep), at the age of 16 years and 146 days, became the youngest male cricketer to score an international half-century.^[16]
• Sompal Kami took the first five-wicket haul by a bowler for Nepal in ODIs.^[17]

3rd ODI

28 January 2019 09:30 Scorecard

United Arab Emirates  254/6 (50 overs)	v	Nepal 255/6 (44.4 overs)
Shaiman Anwar 87 (70) Paras Khadka 2/44 (10 overs)		Paras Khadka 115 (109) Imran Haider 2/50 (10 overs)

Nepal won by 4 wickets ICC Academy Ground, Dubai Umpires: Iftikhar Ali (UAE) and Nitin Menon (Ind) Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Nep)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Sundeep Jora (Nep) made his ODI debut.
• Paras Khadka became the first batsman for Nepal to score a century in an ODI.^[18]

T20I series

1st T20I

31 January 2019 13:00 Scorecard

United Arab Emirates  153/6 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 132/7 (20 overs)
Shaiman Anwar 59 (38) Basanta Regmi 2/23 (4 overs)		Sundeep Jora 53* (46) Zahoor Khan 2/17 (4 overs)

United Arab Emirates won by 21 runs ICC Academy Ground, Dubai Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Iftikhar Ali (UAE) Player of the match: Shaiman Anwar (UAE)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Mohammad Boota, Chundangapoyil Rizwan (UAE), Abinash Bohara, Sundeep Jora and Rohit Paudel (Nep) all made their T20I debuts.
• Sundeep Jora (Nep), at the age of 17 years and 103 days, became the youngest male cricketer to score a half-century in a T20I.^[19]

2nd T20I

1 February 2019 13:00 Scorecard

United Arab Emirates  107 (19.2 overs)	v	Nepal 111/6 (19.3 overs)
Chundangapoyil Rizwan 44 (43) Abinash Bohara 3/20 (4 overs)		Dipendra Singh Airee 47* (41) Sultan Ahmed 2/9 (4 overs)

Nepal won by 4 wickets ICC Academy Ground, Dubai Umpires: Iftikhar Ali (UAE) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Dipendra Singh Airee (Nep)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to bat.
• Pawan Sarraf (Nep) made his T20I debut.

3rd T20I

3 February 2019 13:00 Scorecard

Nepal    104/8 (10 overs)	v	United Arab Emirates 90/8 (10 overs)
Paras Khadka 29 (14) Mohammad Naveed 2/6 (2 overs)		Shaiman Anwar 30 (20) Karan KC 2/13 (2 overs)

Nepal won by 14 runs ICC Academy Ground, Dubai Umpires: Akbar Ali (UAE) and Shiju Sam (UAE) Player of the match: Karan KC (Nep)

• United Arab Emirates won the toss and elected to field.
• The match was reduced to 10 overs per side due to rain.