Oman men’s national squad headed to UAE for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers with utmost confidence in themselves as they remained unbeaten throughout the 5-nation T20I series held at home, as they won the games against Ireland, Netherlands, Hong Kong and Nepal.
Ireland managed to win their final game against Nepal to finish 2nd on the points table, with their only loss coming against the host’s. Nepal, who had the most horrendous of outings in the final game of the series against the host’s, finished 3rd in the overall points table, with 2 wins to their name. Netherlands broke their loss-spree in the tournament, as they won the final game of the series against Hong Kong, who in turn remained winless in the tournament.
The tournament was the final preparatory assignments for all the team’s except Nepal, and with conditions at Al Amerat to somewhat be similar to what is expected in UAE during the qualifiers, the team’s will be happy with the outcome of the matches during the tournament (both positive and negative).
Brief Scores
07th Match: Netherlands 94 all out in 15.3 overs (Maxwell O’Dowd 24, Antonius Staal 19 , Zeeshan Maqsood 4/7, Khawar Ali 4/16, Mohammad Nadeem 1/12) lost to Oman 95/3 in 14 overs (Aqib Ilyas 44, Khawar Ali 20, Amir Kaleem 15 n.o, Pieter Seelar 2/20, Paul van Meekeren 1/11) by 7 wickets
08th Match: Ireland 145/8 in 20 overs (Paul Stirling 59, Andy Bilbirnie 38, Stuart Thompson 21 n.o, Sandeep Lamichhane 2/21, Abinash Bohara 2/22, Lalit Rajbanshi 1/23) beat Nepal 132 all out in 19.5 overs (Aarif Sheikh 26, Paras Khadka 25, Ishan Pandey 22, Mark Adair 3/22, George Dockerell 3/23, Gareth Delany 2/30) by 13 runs
09th Match: Netherlands 185/4 in 20 overs (Tobias Visee 68, Roelof van der Merwe 50 n.o, Scott Edwards 42 n.o, Kinchit Shah 1/25, Raag Kapur 1/26) beat Hong Kong 148/7 in 20 overs (Haroon Arshad 68, Shahid Wasif 22 n.o, Brandon Glover 4/26, Pieter Seelaar 2/26, Colin Ackermann 1/15) by 37 runs
10th Match: Nepal 64 all out in 11 overs (Aarif Sheikh 20, Aamir Kaleem 5/15, Bilal Khan 2/14, Khawar Ali 1/3) lost to Oman 65/4 in 11.4 overs (Suraj Kumar 42 n.o, Karan KC 2/27, Sompal Kami 1/7, Sandeep Lamichhane 1/23) by 6 wickets
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