Nepal U19 cricket team has reached South Africa to take part in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2024 and has already took part in the training. 

Nepal played a practice match against Scotland U19 and emerged victorous 135 runs thanks to a brilliant hundered from Gulshan Jha. 

Nepal will  now take on Namibia U19 in the second practice match on 11th January. 

Nepal are placed in group D alongside Pakistan, New Zealand and Afghanistan. Nepal has already played with Pakistan U19 and Afghanistan U19 in the U19 Asia Cup few weeks ago. 

The match between Nepal U19 and Namibia U19 will start from 1:45 pm Nepali time.

Before going into the main tournament, team Nepal will play two official warm-up matches in South Africa. The first practice match will be against Scotland and second will be against West Indies.

Squads 

Nepal U19: Dev Khanal (c), Dipesh Kandel, Gulshan Jha, Durgesh Gupta, Subash Bhandari, Aakash Tripathi, Arjun Kumal, Deepak Bohara, Uttam Thapa Magar (wk), Dipak Dumre, Aakash Chand, Bishal KC, Tilak Raj Bhandari, Bipin Rawal (wk), Dipak Bohara.

Namibia U19: Alex Volschenk (c), Gerhard Janse van Rensburg, Hansie de Villiers, JW Visagie, Ben Brassell, Jack Brassell, Henry van Wyk, Zacheo van Vuuren, Nico Pieters, Faf du Plessis, Woutie Niehaus, PD Blignaut, Hanro Badenhorst, Junior Kariata, Ryan Moffett.