Oman vs Nepal: Nepal bat first in CWC League 2 finale needing a win to finish above Canada

Oman vs Nepal (OMA vs NEP), ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2, Monday 19 October: Nepal were 134 for 3 after 31.4 overs at Al Amerat after winning the toss and batting first, ESPNcricinfo's live scorecard showed at about 12:30pm PKT. Dev Khanal top-scored with 57 off 65 balls, and captain Rohit Paudel (17 not out) and Dipendra Singh Airee (22 not out off 19) were rebuilding. It is Nepal's last match of the League 2 cycle, and the result decides where they finish.

This page is updated with the result. Play started at 9:30am in Oman (10:30am PKT) and the second session runs to 5pm Oman time, 6pm PKT.

What the result means for Nepal

Nepal went into the game on 28 points from 35 matches, the Kathmandu Post reported after their 24-run defeat by Canada on Saturday. Canada have finished their campaign on 29 points. A win in League 2 is worth two points, so:

• Nepal win: 30 points, one ahead of Canada.
• Nepal lose: they stay on 28, one behind Canada.

The race matters because a top-six finish keeps a team's ODI status for the next League 2 cycle, the Kathmandu Post and Ratopati reported before this tri-series. The top three, the USA, Scotland and the Netherlands, have already qualified for the World Cup Qualifier, according to Ratopati, and Nepal were already out of that race.

How this tri-series has gone

The first meeting with Oman was one-sided. Nepal made 263 for 8 and bowled Oman out for 150, with Sandeep Lamichhane and Nandan Yadav taking three wickets each; Oman's Vinayak Shukla made 77, according to the Kathmandu Post. Canada's win over Oman two days later, reported by Ekantipur, kept Canada in the hunt, and Yuvraj Samra's maiden ODI hundred (105 off 117) beat Nepal on Saturday despite Lalit Rajbanshi's 4 for 39 and Arjun Kumal's 87.

Today's match so far

Khanal shared 64 for the second wicket with Ishan Pandey and was third out, at 99 in the 26th over. Airee then hit a six off Samay Shrivastava as Nepal took 31 runs from five overs. For Oman, Hassnain Shah had 0 for 33 from 4.4 overs. The umpires are Masudur Rahman and Vinod Babu, with Wendell Labrooy as match referee.

Also this week

It is the last League 2 game of the cycle and a near neighbour's ODI future rides on it. For Pakistan's own cricket this week, see the Pakistan tri-series schedule and results (Pakistan vs England, Tuesday 1:30pm PKT) and our cricket match centre. Anyone who works in Muscat and sends money home can check today's rate on our currency converter.