Nepal cruise into final

Nepal 41 for 1 beat China 40 (Chaudhari 3-5) by nine wickets
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Nepal celebrate their passage to the final © ACC

Nepal eased into the final with a nine-wicket victory against China at the Johor Cricket Academy.

China's one chance of victory was to hope to put up a score big enough to force Nepal to go for their strokes for the first time in the tournament and thus create wicket-taking chances. Nepal however, were never remotely in danger and - but for two dropped chances - played a close to faultless game in the field.

Only one four was struck by China after they batted, that a heave over midwicket by Sun Meng Yao, who made 18 of their 40. China's batsmen were not allowed to play any strokes as delivery after delivery pinned them to the crease in defence.

China were all out in the 29th over and Nepal's batsmen, not overly capable of attack themselves, took their own sweet time in chasing down the target. Extras did the work; 21 of them, surpassing by one the runs off the bat.

Nepal now play Bangladesh in the final for which Bangladesh - in spite of all the application shown by Nepal - are the overwhelming favourites.