{"id":590552,"date":"2026-05-18T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590552\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:30:08","slug":"cricket-world-cup-league-2-nepal-beat-scotland-by-six-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/590552\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket World Cup League 2: Nepal beat Scotland by six wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hosts Nepal defeated Scotland by six wickets in the teams&#8217; second Cricket World Cup League 2 meeting of the ongoing tri-series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scotland batted first in Kirtipur and were 194 all out after Brandon McMullen&#8217;s big-hitting 73 from 44 balls and a steady 51 from Michael English.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lalit Rajbanshi took four wickets, including those of Scotland captain Richie Berrington (12) and Michael Leask (one).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Nepal&#8217;s reply, Khushal Bhurtel fell lbw to McMullen for 28 and Aasif Sheikh was run out for 29 after an early flurry of boundaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Ishan Pandey&#8217;s 55 and Rohit Paudel&#8217;s unbeaten 74 put Nepal firmly on top as they finished on 199-4, Paudel finishing the contest with a six.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Scots had beaten Nepal and the United States earlier in the series and play the latter again on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nepal also have two wins in the tri-series before their final match with the United States on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hosts Nepal defeated Scotland by six wickets in the teams&#8217; second Cricket World Cup League 2 meeting of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-590552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590552","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=590552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}