The 2026 Nepal Tri-Nation Series in April was the seventeenth round of the 2024–2026 Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament, which was held in Nepal from 25 April to 5 May 2026. It was a tri-nation series contested by the men's national teams of Nepal, Oman and the United Arab Emirates. The series was originally scheduled to take place from 10 to 20 March 2026, but was postponed due to the West Asia conflict. All the matches were played as One Day International (ODI) fixtures.
All matches, excluding the warm-up matches, were played at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur.
T20I series Ahead of the League 2 fixtures, Nepal played two Twenty20 International (T20I) matches against United Arab Emirates. The series was drawn 1–1.
Squads Dipendra Singh Airee (c) Basir Ahamad Shahab Alam Kushal Bhurtel Lokesh Bam (wk) Hemant Dhami Gulshan Jha Sundeep Jora Sandeep Lamichhane Kushal Malla Sher Malla Arjun Saud (wk) Aarif Sheikh Nandan Yadav Santosh Yadav Muhammad Waseem (c) Muhammad Arfan Haider Ali Jash Giyanani Muhammad Jawadullah Nilansh Keswani Sohaib Khan Khuzaima Tanveer Ajay Kumar Akshdeep Nath Muhammad Shahdad Alishan Sharafu Aryansh Sharma (wk) Junaid Siddique Harpreet Singh Adeeb Usmani (wk) Zuhaib Zubair Nepal named Pratish GC, Narayan Joshi and Rashid Khan as reserves. The United Arab Emirates squad for the tour included five players who became the first cricketers to be granted citizenship through naturalisation (rather than becoming eligible through residency): Khuzaima Tanveer, Ajay Kumar, Akshdeep Nath, Harpreet Singh and Adeeb Usmani.
Fixtures The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced the schedule for the series on 10 April 2026.
1st T20I
2nd T20I
Tour matches Ahead of the League 2 series, Oman played two 50-over warm-up matches against Nepal A at the Mulpani International Cricket Ground. The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced the fixtures on 9 April 2026.
League 2 series Squads Rohit Paudel (c) Dipendra Singh Airee (vc) Basir Ahamad Binod Bhandari (wk) Kushal Bhurtel Gulshan Jha Sompal Kami Karan KC Arjun Kumal Sandeep Lamichhane Lalit Rajbanshi Bhim Sharki Aarif Sheikh Aasif Sheikh (wk) Nandan Yadav Jatinder Singh (c) Vinayak Shukla (vc, wk) Shakeel Ahmed Mujibur Ali Wasim Ali Hashir Dafedar Shah Faisal Hasnain Ul Wahab Muhammed Imran Nadeem Khan Pruthvikumar Machhi Hammad Mirza (wk) Ashish Odedara Jiten Ramanandi Hassnain Shah Bukkapatnam Siddharth Muhammad Waseem (c) Haider Ali Jash Giyanani Muhammad Jawadullah Nilansh Keswani Sohaib Khan Khuzaima Tanveer Ajay Kumar Akshdeep Nath Muhammad Shahdad Aryansh Sharma (wk) Junaid Siddique Harpreet Singh Adeeb Usmani (wk) Zuhaib Zubair Nepal named Rijan Dhakal, Hemant Dhami, Dev Khanal, Sher Malla and Ishan Pandey as reserves.
The United Arab Emirates squad for the tour included five players who became the first cricketers to be granted citizenship through naturalisation (rather than becoming eligible through residency): Khuzaima Tanveer, Ajay Kumar, Akshdeep Nath, Harpreet Singh and Adeeb Usmani.
Despite not being named in the squad announcement, Hasnain Ul Wahab made his ODI debut against Nepal in the 6th ODI.
Fixtures
The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced the revised fixtures on 7 April 2026.
1st ODI
2nd ODI
3rd ODI
4th ODI
5th ODI
6th ODI
References
External links T20I series home at ESPNcricinfo CWCL2 home at ESPNcricinfo