The match is set to start this morning at the Mong Kok Ground in Hong Kong, with Nepal, Hong Kong, and PNG participating.

After the series opener on Sunday got interrupted by rain, Nepal and Hong Kong are tied with one point each.

In the first match, Hong Kong batted first after losing the toss and scored 65 runs for the loss of two wickets in eight overs. Unfortunately, rain stopped play once again, leading to the match being canceled.

As a result, Nepal and Hong Kong each got one point from the canceled match.

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The series will run until Wednesday and serves as important preparation for the Nepalese team ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in June.

Under the leadership of Rohit Paudel, the Nepali team includes players like Kushal Bhurtel, Binod Bhandari, Gulshan Jha, Sandeep Zora, Arif Sheikh, Bibek Yadav, Karan KC, Abinash Bohora, Rashid Khan, Pratish JC, Sagar Dhakal, Akash Chand, and Lokesh Bam.

Notably, some players like Dipendra Singh Aire, Asif Sheikh, Sompal Kami, Kushal Malla, Anil Shah, and Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi are given rest and are excluded from the series.

Before the triangular T20 series, Nepal faced defeat in the Friendship Cup against the host team, Hong Kong, last Saturday.

A single-judge bench of the Kathmandu District Court has convicted Sandeep Lamichhane of a sexual offence following hearings that started on Sunday, the Kathmandu Post has reported. ESPNcricinfo has not been able to independently verify the information.

The court, however, has concluded that the victim was not a minor at the time of the incident, as had been reported earlier. The next hearing on the matter will determine Lamichhane’s sentence. Lamichhane is currently out on bail.

On Friday, the day of his conviction, Sandeep Lamichhane had led PARSA Club XI to a win over Nepal Army Club in a Nepal Pro Club Championship match in Birgunj.

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In early September last year, Lamichhane, then the Nepal captain, was suspended by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) after an arrest warrant was issued against him in Kathmandu over the matter. It followed the news that a complaint against Lamichhane had been lodged in a Kathmandu police station.

At the time, Lamichhane was in the West Indies with Jamaica Tallawahs taking part in CPL 2022. The club announced that Lamichhane would be leaving the tournament with immediate effect. Upon landing at the airport in Kathmandu in early October, he had been taken into custody.

Shortly before being arrested, Lamichhane had written on Facebook that he would “fully cooperate in all stages of the investigation and will fight a legal battle to prove my innocence” and called it a “conspiracy and wrongful allegation”.

He returned to the Nepal side in February this year – amid protests from rights groups at home – for a Cricket World Cup League 2 tri-series at home, against Namibia and Scotland, where no player from the opposition teams shook his hand at any stage. Subsequently, he was not considered for Nepal’s squad for the Cricket World Cup League 2 tri-series in Dubai in early 2023, but joined the team later as an injury replacement. He has continued to turn out for Nepal since, including at the ODI World Cup qualifier in Zimbabwe and the ODI Asia Cup.