This article is about the Men's team. For the Women's team, see Nepal women's national cricket team.
Nickname(s)
Rhinos, Gorkhalis
Association
Cricket Association of Nepal
Captain
Rohit Paudel
Coach
Vacant
ICC status
Associate member with ODI status (1988)
ICC region
ACC
First ODI
v Netherlands at VRA Cricket Ground, Amstelveen; 1 August 2018
Last ODI
v Scotland at Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas; 4 November 2024
ODIs
Played
Won/Lost
Total
73
35/35 (1 tie, 2 no results)
This year
0
0/0 (0 ties, 0 no results)
World Cup Qualifier appearances
3 (first in 2001)
Best result
8th (2018, 2023)
First T20I
v Hong Kong at Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong; 16 March 2014
Last T20I
v United States at Grand Prairie Stadium, Dallas; 20 October 2024
T20Is
Played
Won/Lost
Total
95
53/38 (2 ties, 2 no results)
This year
0
0/0 (0 ties, 0 no results)
T20 World Cup appearances
2 (first in 2014)
Best result
First round (2014)
T20 World Cup Qualifier appearances
5 (first in 2012)
Best result
Runners-up (2023)
Official website
cricketnepal.org.np
As of 8 November 2024
The Nepal men's national cricket team (Nepali: नेपाल पुरुष राष्ट्रिय क्रिकेट टोली) represents Nepal in men's International cricket and is governed by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). They have been a Associate Member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1996. Nepal were awarded Twenty20 International (T20I) status by the ICC in June 2014 until the 2015 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier and earned One Day International (ODI) status in 2018.
Nepal has played 73 ODI matches, winning 35, losing 35, tying 1 and with 2 ending in a no-result. As of November 2024, Nepal is ranked 18t
ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings
One Day International team rankings
The ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings (formerly known as the ICC ODI Championship) is an international One Day International (ODI) cricket rankings system of the International Cricket Council (ICC). After every ODI match, the two teams involved receive points based on a mathematical formula. Each team's points total is divided by their total number of matches played to give a rating, and all the teams are ranked in a table in order of rating.
By analogy to cricket batting averages, the points for winning an ODI match are always greater than the team's rating, increasing the rating, and the points for losing an ODI match are always less than the rating, reducing the rating. A drawn match between higher and lower rated teams will benefit the lower-rated team at the expense of the higher-rated team. An "average" team that wins as often as it loses while playing a mix of stronger and weaker teams should have a rating of 100.
As of 7 August 2024, India leads the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings, with a rating of 118 from 45 weighted matches, while the lowest rated team, UAE, has a rating of 12 from 30 weighted matches.[1]
Until 2013, the team ranked number one at the annual 1 April cut-off date received the ICC ODI Championship Shield and prize money. The rankings were used to award direct qualification for the Cricket World Cup in 2019 and 2027.
Current rankings
Associate rankings
Main articles: ICC Associate Team Rankings and World Cricket League
In late 2005, the International Cricket Council ranked the top non-Test nations from 11–30 to complement the Test nations' rankings in the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings. The ICC used the results from the 2005 ICC Trophy and WCQS Division 2 competition (i.e. the primary qualification mechanisms for the 2007 Cricket World Cup) to rank the nations.