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Kathmandu, Oct 17: Nepal was defeated by Canada by 24 runs in today's match under the ICC World Cup League 2 series. The Canadian team set a victory target of 257 runs, but the Nepal team was all out for 232 runs in 46 overs.

Even though opener Arjun Kumal played an excellent innings for Nepal, he could not lead the team to victory. He scored 87 runs off 112 balls, including four fours. Similarly, Dipendra Singh Airee scored 27, Ishan Pandey and Gulshan Jha scored 21 each, Asif Sheikh made 20, Rohit Kumar Paudel scored 18, and Karan KC remained not out with 17 runs.

For Canada, in bowling, Sukhjinder Singh took three wickets, while Kaleem Sana and Sheel Patel took two wickets each.

Before that, at Al Amarat Cricket Ground, Canada won the toss and batted first, scoring 256 runs in the allotted 50 overs after losing all their wickets.

Opener Yuvraaj Samra played a century for Canada. He scored 105 runs off 117 balls, including 11 fours and four sixes. This is Yuvraaj's first century in One Day Internationals. Aaron Johnson added 36, Harsha Thakur 34, captain Hamza Tariq 30, and Sumit Goyal 17 runs.

For Nepal, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi took four wickets, captain Sandeep Lamichhane took three, Dipendra Singh Airee took two, and Rohit Kumar Paudel took one wicket.

After this loss, Nepal has dropped to seventh place in the World Cup League-2 standings. To get into the top six, Nepal now has no choice but to win the final game against Oman. The match between Nepal and Oman is scheduled for Monday.