{"id":169357,"date":"2025-09-30T01:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169357\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:19:07","slug":"nepal-skittle-west-indies-for-83-in-historic-t20-cricket-series-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169357\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal skittle West Indies for 83 in historic T20 cricket series win"},"content":{"rendered":"

West Indies suffered a new low as they were bowled out for just 83 to lose their T20 series with minnows Nepal in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

Nepal, who are ranked 18th in the world, had never played a T20 series against a full member nation before this week but have won the three-match series with a game to spare.<\/p>\n

Windies’ total of 83 is the lowest a full member nation has scored against an associate and the 90-run winning margin is also the biggest for an associate against a full member.<\/p>\n

It comes after West Indies’ Test team suffered a crushing defeat by Australia in July, being bowled out for just 27 – the second-lowest score in Test history, and the worst since 1955.<\/p>\n

After losing that series 3-0, Cricket West Indies president Dr Kishore Shallow called for an emergency meeting <\/a>to review the series and enlisted the help of legendary former players Sir Viv Richards, Sir Clive Lloyd and Brian Lara.<\/p>\n

They also failed to qualify for the 50-over World Cup in 2023 and they are currently outside the qualifying places for 2027 edition. <\/p>\n

Nepal posted a decent score of 173-6 in their 20 overs thanks to a 100-run fourth-wicket partnership between Aasif Sheikh and Sundeep Jora, with Jora hitting five sixes in Sharjah.<\/p>\n

West Indies, who are sixth in the T20 rankings, never got going in the chase, with only three batters reaching double figures.<\/p>\n

They were 63-4 in the 12th over before collapsing to just 83 all out.<\/p>\n

Nepal, who are coached by Australian Stuart Law, take part in qualifiers for the 2026 T20 World Cup next month – they played at the 2024 and 2014 tournaments.<\/p>\n

The series concludes with the third T20 on Tuesday (15:30 BST). <\/p>\n

West Indies fast bowler Alzarri Joseph, meanwhile, has been ruled out of next month’s two-Test series against India due to the recurrence of a back injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies suffered a new low as they were bowled out for just 83 to lose their T20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-169357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}