Nepal qualified for last year’s T20 World Cup and came within a whisker of beating South Africa, who went on to reach the final.
Under the guidance of new coach Stuart Law they are bidding to reach both the 2026 T20 World Cup and the 50-over version in 2027 and are currently in Glasgow for a tri-series with Scotland and the Netherlands.
The dramatic performances by Nepal during a recent round of Cricket World Cup League 2 matches – part of the qualifying pathway for the next 50-over World Cup – with the same opponents in Dundee underlined their nickname the ‘Cardiac kids’.
Anybody who witnessed their last-ball heroics against Scotland, and the subsequent pitch invasion by passionate Nepalese fans, will testify to its accuracy.
“I guess it’s the way we have played our cricket for the past 10 years or so. Every game seems to go down to the wire,” Nepal skipper Rohit Paudel told BBC Sport.
“So I think the name ‘cardiac kids’ comes because you never know how we can come back from a bad position to win a game. We are always fighting right until the end of a match even when the chance of winning might be small.
“Nepal played against MCC in 2016 and we won that game at Lord’s so it would be great if we could play England there in a Test match one day. It would be a proud day not just for cricket, but for our country as a whole.”
