{"id":46214,"date":"2026-04-19T22:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=46214"},"modified":"2026-04-19T22:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:04:30","slug":"icc-womens-t20-challenge-trophy-nepal-defeats-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/icc-womens-t20-challenge-trophy-nepal-defeats-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Women&#8217;s T20 Challenge Trophy: Nepal defeats Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, April 19: Nepal has defeated Italy to register its first win in the ICC Women&#8217;s Twenty20 Challenge Trophy being held in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal defeated Italy by 50 runs in the match played at the Rwanda Cricket Stadium today. Chasing a target of 113 runs set by Nepal, Italy were all out for 62 runs in 18.4 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Chathurika Mahamalage scored 22 runs and Pasindi Kanankege added 12 runs, only two batswomen to reach double figures.<\/p>\n<p>For Nepal, Rubina Chhetri took four wickets, Kabita Kunwar took two, and Manisha Upadhyaya, Riya Sharma and Rachana Chaudhary took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Nepal batted first to score 112 runs for the loss of 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Vice-captain Pooja Mahato scored the highest score of 48 runs for Nepal. Similarly, Samjhana Khadka scored 16 runs, Bindu Rawal scored 15 and captain Indu Verma scored 10 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Emilia Bartram took three wickets. In the first match on Saturday, Nepal lost to the United States of America by 44 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, April 19: Nepal has defeated Italy to register its first win in the ICC Women&#8217;s Twenty20 Challenge Trophy being held in Rwanda. Nepal defeated Italy by 50 runs in the match played at the Rwanda Cricket Stadium today. Chasing a target of 113 runs set by Nepal, Italy were all out for 62 runs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46214","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\/46214"}],"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=46214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46217,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46214\/revisions\/46217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}