Nepalese cricket team in the Netherlands in 2015

Nepalese cricket team in the Netherlands in 2015
		Netherlands		Nepal
Dates		30 June 2015 – 3 July 2015
Captains		Peter Borren		Paras Khadka
Twenty20 International series
Result		Netherlands won the 4-match series 3–1
Most runs		Stephan Myburgh (138)		Paras Khadka (137)
Most wickets		Ahsan Malik (11)		Basant Regmi (5)
Player of the series		Ahsan Malik (Ned) and Paras Khadka (Nep)

The Nepalese cricket team toured the Netherlands from 30 June to 3 July 2015 to play four Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.^[1] The Netherlands won the series 3–1. The tour was a warm-up for the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier which took place in Ireland later in July.

Squads

Netherlands[2][3]	Nepal[4]
Peter Borren (c) Wesley Barresi (vc) Rahil Ahmed Mudassar Bukhari Ben Cooper Ahsan Malik Roelof van der Merwe Stephan Myburgh Max O'Dowd Michael Rippon Pieter Seelaar Michael Swart Timm van der Gugten Paul van Meekeren Thijs van Schelven Tobias Visee	Paras Khadka (c) Gyanendra Malla (vc) Pradeep Airee Binod Bhandari Shakti Gauchan Karan KC Sompal Kami Avinash Karn Subash Khakurel Siddhant Lohani Gyanendra Malla Anil Mandal Jitendra Mukhiya Sagar Pun Rajesh Pulami Basanta Regmi Sharad Vesawkar

T20I series

1st T20I

30 June 2015 Scorecard

Netherlands  134/5 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 116/7 (20 overs)
Stephan Myburgh 67* (60) Basant Regmi 2/34 (4 overs)		Paras Khadka 45* (42) Ahsan Malik 3/23 (4 overs)

Netherlands won by 18 runs VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen Umpires: Sarika Prasad (Sin) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
• Pradeep Airee, Karan KC and Avinash Karn (all Nep) made their T20I debuts.

2nd T20I

1 July 2015 Scorecard

Netherlands  172/4 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 69 (17.4 overs)
Michael Swart 76* (59) Sompal Kami 2/24 (4 overs)		Sharad Vesawkar 18 (31) Michael Rippon 3/11 (4 overs)

Netherlands won by 103 runs VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen Umpires: Sarika Prasad (Sin) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)

• Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
• Max O'Dowd, Thijs van Schelven and Tobias Visee (all Ned) made their T20I debuts.
• This was the biggest win in T20Is for the Netherlands.^[5]

3rd T20I

2 July 2015 Scorecard

Netherlands  149/6 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 131/9 (20 overs)
Stephan Myburgh 71* (56) Karan KC 2/24 (3 overs)		Paras Khadka 36 (28) Ahsan Malik 4/21 (4 overs)

Netherlands won by 18 runs Hazelaarweg Stadion, Rotterdam Umpires: Sarika Prasad (Sin) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
• Rahil Ahmed (Ned) made his T20I debut.

4th T20I

3 July 2015 Scorecard

Netherlands  139/7 (20 overs)	v	Nepal 141/7 (19.4 overs)
Roelof van der Merwe 40* (27) Sagar Pun 3/26 (4 overs)		Paras Khadka 54 (40) Ahsan Malik 3/25 (3.4 overs)

Nepal won by 3 wickets Hazelaarweg Stadion, Rotterdam Umpires: Sarika Prasad (Sin) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (Ind)

• Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
• Anil Mandal (Nep) made his T20I debut.
• Roelof van der Merwe made his T20I debut for the Netherlands. He previously played T20I and ODI cricket for South Africa.^[6]

References

1. "Nepal in Netherlands T20I Series, 2015". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
2. "Netherlands Squad". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
3. "Van der Merwe switches to Netherlands". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
4. "Nepal Squad". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
5. "Swart, Cooper power Netherlands' biggest win". ESPNcricinfo. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
6. "Van der Merwe switches to Netherlands". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 30 June 2015.

External links

• Series home at ESPN Cricinfo