2018 MCC Tri-Nation Series
2018 MCC Tri-nation series was a cricket tournament that was held on 29 July 2018 at Lord's in England. The series featured Nepal, Netherlands and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), with the matches played as Twenty20 fixtures. The third fixture, between Nepal and the Netherlands, was given full Twenty20 International (T20I) status by the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Rain affected all three matches. The first two fixtures were both reduced to six overs per side. In the third and final match, only 16.4 overs of play was possible, with the game ending in a no result. Nepal and the Netherlands shared the series.
Squads
Points table
T20 series
1st T20
v | MCC 62/2 (6 overs) | |
- Marylebone Cricket Club won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to 6 overs per side due to rain.
- Kashif Ali, Daniel Douthwaite (MCC), Hidde Overdijk and Antonius Staal (Ned) all made their T20 debuts.
2nd T20
MCC 40/4 (6 overs) | v | |
- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to 6 overs per side due to rain.
- Tom Smith (MCC), Lalit Bhandari, Rohit Paudel, Anil Sah and Aarif Sheikh (Nep) all made their T20 debuts.
3rd T20
v | ||
- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- No further play was possible due to rain.
- This was a full T20I match.
- Dipendra Singh Airee, Lalit Rajbanshi, Anil Sah, Aarif Sheikh (Nep) and Hidde Overdijk (Ned) all made their T20I debuts.
- Sandeep Lamichhane made his T20I debut for Nepal. He had previously made his T20I debut for the ICC Rest of the World XI team in the Hurricane Relief T20 Challenge match in May 2018.