Nepal face UAE in the ACC Premier Cup 2026 final at Bayuemas Oval on September 12, with a direct 2027 Asia Cup berth for the winner. Form, history and what's at stake.
Winning the ACC Premier Cup 2026 final sends Nepal straight to the 2027 Asia Cup with no further qualifying needed. Here's exactly how that pathway works, and who else is chasing it.
Dipendra Singh Airee was Player of the Match in Nepal's ACC Premier Cup semi-final with 51 and 3/11, capping a tournament in which he's been Nepal's most important cricketer with bat and ball.
Nepal won three of four Group A matches at the ACC Premier Cup 2026 — beating Bahrain, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia before a shock loss to Hong Kong. Every result reviewed.
From an ACC Premier Cup final to the Asian Games in Japan, Nepal are in the middle of the busiest and highest-stakes stretch of cricket in the program's history. Full guide.
Straight after the ACC Premier Cup final, Nepal head to Japan for the 2026 Asian Games — Group A against Afghanistan and hosts Japan, from September 24.
Babar Hayat's unbeaten 117 powered Hong Kong to a 15-run win over Nepal in the ACC Premier Cup 2026 group stage — the one result that exposed a real weakness before the final.
Dipendra Singh Airee's 51 and 3/11 led Nepal to a crushing 87-run win over Oman in Kuala Lumpur, bowling out the 2024 champions for just 60 to reach the ACC Premier Cup 2026 final.
Nepal beat the UAE in the 2023 ACC Premier Cup final to reach that year's Asia Cup. Three years later, the same two teams meet in the same final for the same prize.
Sandeep Lamichhane took 5 wickets for just 14 runs off ten overs against Bahrain to open Nepal's ACC Premier Cup 2026 campaign — a return to the form that made him Nepal's biggest cricket export.
UAE chased down Hong Kong's 70 in just 11.1 overs to reach the ACC Premier Cup 2026 final, ending the run of the side that had beaten Nepal in the group stage.
The ACC Premier Cup is Asian associate cricket's top tier and the last step before the Asia Cup. Format, teams and why Nepal's 2026 final matters, explained.
India and Sri Lanka are through. Both remaining semi-final places go to a single match, and one of them puts the UAE against Bangladesh with a last-four spot on it.
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Cricket returns to the Asian Games from September 17 in Japan, and half the men's field is Associate nations. Full team lists, format, venue and what is actually at stake.
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Eight Associate teams, 36 ODIs each, one table that decides who reaches the World Cup Qualifier. How CWC League 2 works, where the standings sit, and what Nepal needs.
Duckworth-Lewis-Stern in plain English — what resources mean, why the par score jumps around, why chasing teams often benefit, and how to read a rain-hit target.
How the Decision Review System actually works — the three technologies behind it, what umpire's call really means, how many reviews you get, and the mistakes teams keep making.
The Hundred 2026 is complete: Manchester Super Giants took a maiden men's title and Trent Rockets won the women's, both at Lord's on August 16. Plus the mid-season table that got it wrong.
The 2026 Lanka Premier League runs July 17 to August 8 with five franchises in a double round-robin format, as four-time defending champions Jaffna Kings chase an unprecedented fifth straight title.
The Hundred's 2026 season runs July 21 to August 16 with a new combined men's-and-women's trophy, a ban on betting sponsors, and late squad changes including Joe Weatherley's call-up at Birmingham Phoenix.
Nepal lost all four matches of the 2026 Netherlands Tri-Nation Series — twice to Namibia, twice to the Netherlands — in Utrecht, undoing a six-match winning run and complicating their World Cup League 2 automatic-qualification bid.
A round-up of every major cricket storyline running right now — Nepal's tough Netherlands tour, Kohli and Bumrah back for India in England, The Hundred, the Lanka Premier League, and Ashes 2027 dates.
England and Australia will meet in concurrent men's and women's Ashes series on English soil in 2027, with the men's first Test at Trent Bridge on June 18 as England look to avenge a 4-1 defeat down under.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are back in India's squad for the England ODIs after Shubman Gill's side lost the T20I series 4-0, while Jasprit Bumrah marked his return from a 968-day ODI absence by reaching 150 wickets in the format.
India whitewashed Zimbabwe 3-0 in a three-match T20I series in Harare, with teenager Vaibhav Sooryavanshi named Player of the Series after scoring 151 runs across the three games.
Australia's six titles, Kohli's 765-run tournament, Rohit's five hundreds, McGrath's 71 wickets, Markram's 49-ball final blitz — every ODI and T20 World Cup record that matters.
From Bradman's 99.94 to Lara's 400*, Muralitharan's 1,347 wickets and the 27-ball T20I century — every major cricket world record, who holds it, and which ones might actually fall.
Sahil Chauhan's 27-ball T20I hundred, AB de Villiers' 31-ball ODI century, Brendon McCullum's 54-ball Test ton and Gayle's 30-ball IPL blitz — every fastest-century record explained.
Brian Lara's 400* and 501*, Rohit Sharma's 264, Chris Gayle's 175* and every other highest-score record across formats — the full list with the stories behind the numbers.
Muralitharan's 1,347 international wickets, Warne's 708, Anderson's 704 as a pacer, Laker's 19 in a match and Malinga's five hat-tricks — the complete guide to cricket's bowling records.
Nepal play four World Cup League 2 matches in Utrecht between July 21–29, 2026, facing Namibia twice and the Netherlands twice. Here's what's at stake and the key battles to watch.
Nepal posted 250/8 and bowled Jersey out for 169 to take a 1-0 lead in the ODI series on July 13, 2026 — a statement win ahead of crucial World Cup League 2 fixtures.
Nepal beating Scotland at the T20 World Cup, a Canadian scoring the first Associate century at the tournament, and three Asian Associates qualifying together: why 2026 is a turning point for cricket beyond the Full Members.
From central contracts worth a few hundred dollars a month to million-dollar franchise deals: a clear-eyed explainer of how players from Nepal, UAE, Ireland and other Associate nations make a living from cricket.
Australia chased 151 with 17 balls to spare in the Women's T20 World Cup 2026 final at Lord's on July 5, restricting England to 150/4 and cruising home at 153/3.