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West Indies vs Nepal, 3rd T20I

West Indies won by 10 wkts
NEP
122(19.5)
WI
123/0(12.2)
PLAYER OF THE MATCH
PLAYER OF THE SERIES
A landmark series win for Nepal and in these conditions, especially in the first two games, they showed terrific awareness and fielded just out of this world to stun West Indies. This series could be their coming of age moment as the world recognises their talent and also credit to West Indies for coming over to play a series against them. Not many Full Member sides do that so one has to appreciate West Indies. The men from the Caribbean though would be really disappointed to have lost to an Associate Nation even though they did not come with a full-strength side. Nepal's focus will now turn to the World Cup Qualifiers for the 2026 T20 World Cup. While West Indies travel to India for a Test series. That's it from us for now from here. We will see you soon for more action. Till then be safe and take care. Bye.
The Unity Cup is presented to Rohit Paudel who poses with it and then walks to his players. Gives the Trophy to Aasif Sheikh who then passes it to Nandan Yadav. Paudel meanwhile goes at the back as the team poses in front of the Champions hoarding. Lots of smiles and lots of happy faces there. A series and moment that Nepal will never forget.
Akeal Hosein | West Indies captain: To come out and give that sort of performance after losing two games was excellent and quite clinical as well. When we looked at the pitch today, totally different pitch, the guys were pleased at the amount of grass on it. They just went out and executed. A new opening combination, even though it was a small score, we need to set the platform and take on the powerplay, that's what the guys did. (to the fans back home) We owe everything to them, we have been disappointing them for a while now, hope we can give a positive message with such a clinical performance, hopefully we can make a turn before the World Cup. They did pretty well, I must commend Nepal, it meant a lot to them, meant a lot to the country as well, shining a positive light on things. They did well in batting, bowling and fielding, first two games, their home conditions, the pitches were low and slow and it suited them. Once they secured that, they played on a greentop, probably to try to accustom to conditions and it was totally a different match. They did well and that's why they are the winners. (if he enjoyed captaincy) I did, I did.
Kushal Bhurtel is the Player of the Series. Again no interview.
Ramon Simmonds is the Player of the Match. There's no interview of him. Not sure why.
Rohit Paudel | Nepal captain: Overall, the way we played in this tournament, I'm very proud of the unit in the first two games. We did not turn up today. Winning a first bilateral series, gives us a lot of happiness and thankful and grateful to the players. The way we started our batting, the partnership was missing. We gave wickets in regular intervals and rotation of strike was not there. In bowling, we did not execute our plans, credit to the West Indies openers, they were taking risks and it paid off. The way we fielded in the tournament, and the way we absorbed the pressure, even when things were not going our way. Overall, batting, bowling and fielding we did well. This series will give a lot of confidence to the boys and we would love to take this momentum to the World Cup qualifiers, want to qualify for the World Cup. On behalf of the team, (on the Nepal fans who turned up) I want to thank them, grateful that you are supporting each one of us.
100-plus opening partnerships against Nepal in T20Is
123* - Ackeem Auguste & Amir Jangoo (WI), Sharjah, 2025
103 - Ruturaj Gaikwad & Y Jaiswal (IND), Hangzhou, 2023
STAT: This is the first time the West Indies have won a T20I game by 10 wickets. They have won by nine wickets on four occasions. Also, the first 10-wicket victory over Nepal in T20Is.
21:28 Local Time, 17:28 GMT, 22:58 IST: West Indies have battered Nepal here. They also avoid the whitewash as a result. A 10-wicket win for them and it's their maiden one in T20Is. The openers came out with intent right from ball one and Nepal never recovered after that early assault. A total contrast to the first two games when Nepal choked West Indies out of the game in the powerplay. Tonight there was no Airee to build pressure and both Jangoo and Ackeem Auguste stepped on the accelerator. The former was intent on hitting sixes and ended the game with one that sent the ball out of the ground. At one stage he was 22 off 25 but just went berserk after that. A proper thrashing and one must say Nepal looked down on motivation for this one - understandable after all the euphoria of their series win. Nepal now go around the ground, thanking their supporters who respond. Stay tuned for the post-match stuff...
12.2
6
Sompal Kami to Jangoo, SIX, over the roof at deep backward square-leg and that's the game. Someone outside the ground will have this ball as a souvenir. This is a short of length delivery on middle, Jangoo shuffles across and pulls meatily, the ball just flies and that's a crushing win for West Indies
12.1
Sompal Kami to Ackeem Auguste, 1 run, full outside off, Ackeem Auguste gets forward to loft and it bounces away to sweeper cover
Sompal Kami [2.0-0-10-0] is back into the attack
12
6 Wd2 1 L4 6 2 0 (21 runs)
WI 116-0
Amir Jangoo
68(44)
Ackeem Auguste
40(28)
Shahab Alam
2-0-24-0
11.6
Shahab Alam to Jangoo, no run, Jangoo shuffles across and exposes his stumps, fired full on middle, flicked to short fine
11.5
Shahab Alam to Jangoo, 2 runs, low full-toss on the pads, Jangoo makes room and drives inside-out, wide of long-off and they come back for two
11.4
6
Shahab Alam to Jangoo, SIX, Jangoo wants to end this now. He comes down the track and gets to the pitch of the ball, goes with the angle and heaves all the way over deep mid-wicket, clean clean strike
11.3
4
Shahab Alam to Jangoo, leg byes, FOUR, given as legbyes. It turns in from a good length and cuts Jangoo in half who was looking to cut, the turn in beat the shot, may have flicked the trouser, runs away and beats the run and dive of short fine, just misses the top of middle and leg stumps
11.2
Shahab Alam to Ackeem Auguste, 1 run, quicker good length on leg-stump, Ackeem Auguste goes on the back foot and tucks it to deep mid-wicket
11.2
Shahab Alam to Jangoo, 2 wides, just misses leg-stump as Jangoo sweeps and misses, dips the low full-toss and Lokesh Bam fumbles too, given as wides
Shahab Alam round the wicket.
11.1
6
Shahab Alam to Jangoo, SIX, poor delivery and Jangoo won't miss out. Sliding down leg, Jangoo pulls and clears the deep backward square-leg fence, large gaps there