{"id":41641,"date":"2026-02-05T18:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=41641"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:50:16","slug":"nepal-defeats-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nepal-defeats-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal defeats Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Feb 5: Nepal defeated Canada by six wickets in the second warm up match held today in the lead up to the ICC T20 Men&#8217;s World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n<p>In the match held in Chennai, India, the team Canada chose to bat first after winning the toss, and gathered 161 runs in 20 overs by losing 6 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal met the target of 162 runs in 18 overs by losing four wickets.<br \/>\nNepal&#8217;s Ashif Sheikh contributed 58 runs with six fours and three sixes in 29 balls.<br \/>\nFor bowling, Sandeep Lamichhane and Kushal Bhurtel took two wickets each, while Sompal Kami and Nandan Yadav took one each.<\/p>\n<p>In the first match, Nepal had defeated UAE by seven wickets.<br \/>\nNepal is scheduled to play its maiden match of the ICC T20 World Cup against England on February 8 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Feb 5: Nepal defeated Canada by six wickets in the second warm up match held today in the lead up to the ICC T20 Men&#8217;s World Cup 2026. In the match held in Chennai, India, the team Canada chose to bat first after winning the toss, and gathered 161 runs in 20 overs by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41643,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41641\/revisions\/41643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}