Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 15 (ANI): Jason Holder’s four-fer and skipper Shai Hope’s 61 off 44 balls helped West Indies defeat Nepal by 9 wickets in match 25 of the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2026 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday because the Caribbean aspect turned the primary staff to enter the Tremendous Eights. Nepal are formally eradicated from the race of Tremendous Eights.
The Shai Hope-led Windies chased down a modest goal of 134 runs in simply 15.2 overs to safe a cushty win over the Asian nation.
Brandon King (22 off 17 balls) and Hope (61 not out off 44 balls) added 43 runs for the primary wicket. After that, Shimron Hetmyer (46 not out off 32 balls) joined Hope and took the Windies previous the road comfortably.
Earlier, the West Indies opted to bowl after profitable the toss and began their bowling with spinner Akeal Hosein.
Kushal Bhurtel and Aasif Sheikh opened the innings for Nepal. It was a messy begin for Nepal as they misplaced Kushal Bhurtel on the rating of 1 to Hosein on the fifth ball of the very first over of the match.
The captain Rohit Paudel was despatched again to the pavilion for simply 5 runs within the fourth over, after getting hit on the pad for lbw by Matthew Forde. The Rhinos misplaced their third wicket within the powerplay to Jason Holder within the type of Aasif Sheikh (11), who hit a few boundaries firstly.
Nepal crumbled to 22 runs for the lack of three essential wickets on the finish of powerplay. Following the powerplay, Aarif Skeikh was dismissed for 2 runs by in-form bowler Jason Holder.
Nepal was 46-5 within the eleventh over after Lokesh Bam’s dismissal on the tally of 13 runs by Shamar Joseph. A small partnership of 23 runs came about between Dipendra Singh Airee and Gulsan Jha for the sixth wicket earlier than Gulsan was cleaned up by Roston Chase at 11 runs.
Dipendra was the one constructive from Nepal’s innings. He performed a significant position in probably the most essential partnership of 54 runs for the seventh wicket with Sompal Kami. The partnership ended when Dipendra was dismissed by Holder for 58 runs off 47 balls. Nepal ended the innings at 133/8.
Transient Rating: Nepal 133/8 in 20 overs (Dipendra Singh Airee 58, Sompal Kami 26; Jason Holder 27/4) vs West Indies 134/1 in 15.2 overs (Shai Hope 61, Shimron Hetmyer 46; Nandan Yadav 24/1). (ANI)
