Nepal registered a nine-run victory over UAE in their previous rain-curtailed ICC Cricket World Cup League Two match on Thursday in Kirtipur

Announcing the final 14-member final squad for the Triangular Series of ICC World Cup League 2, Lamichhane is out on bail in charge of raping a minor and is under investigation while his bail is also challenged in the Apex Court.

Sandeep Lamichhane is accused of raping a 17-year-old minor on August 21 last year and was released on bail on January 13 by Patan High Court.

Nepal's cricket board lifted the suspension of its top player on Wednesday even as the Himalayan republic's top law officer sought to have him sent back to custody on rape charges

On September 8, a court in Nepal issued an arrest warrant for national cricket team captain Lamichhane after a 17-year-old girl alleged that he raped her in a hotel room in Kathmandu.

A girl, 17, filed a case alleging that Lamichhane took her to various places in Kathmandu and Bhaktapur all day on August 21 and brought her to a hotel in Sinamangal of Kathmandu where she was raped the same night.

Sandeep Lamichhane: Rape-accused cricket star Sandeep Lamichhane has been taken into custody, said Nepal Police on Thursday.

A Nepali court issued the warrant on September 8 following an allegation by a 17-year-old girl, but Sandeep Lamichhane is thought to have remained in the Caribbean, where he was playing in a tournament

A Nepali court issued an arrest warrant forLamichhane earlier this month following an allegation of rape by a 17-year-old girl. But the leg-spinner is thought to have remained in the Caribbean where he was playing in a tournament

Sandeep Lamichhane, who has been recently accused of a sexual assault by a minor, hopes to return to his country, as soon as possible