Bangladesh successfully defended 106, the lowest total ever defended in the men's T20 World Cup, to beat Nepal by 21 runs on Monday

The Nepal star had been facing an eight-year prison sentence before his rape conviction.

Heavy rain and a waterlogged outfield led to the abandonment of the T20 World Cup match between Sri Lanka and Nepal on Tuesday in Florida.

Denied US visa, Nepal's most high-profile cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane is joining his team for its Caribbean leg of the T20 World Cup campaign.

Nepal had originally wanted to select former skipper Sandeep Lamichhane, who had an eight-year sentence for rape quashed on appeal, but his US visa was denied twice despite intense lobbying.

Nepal leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane is set to miss the upcoming ICC Men's T20 World 2024 which is scheduled to take place in the West Indies and the United States, as his US visa application was rejected for the second time

Exactly a week ago, the 23-year-old leg-spinner was acquitted of rape charges by an appeals court following which the ICC allowed his country's cricket board to add him to the World Cup squad.

The Patan High Court acquitted Nepal cricketer Sandeep Lamichhane in the rape case after the Kathmandu District Court sentenced him eight years in jail in January.

Nepal spinner Sandeep Lamichhane was on Thursday suspended by the country's cricket body after being sentenced to eight years in prison for raping an 18-year-old woman.

Sandeep Lamichhane has been sentenced to eight years in jail by a Kathmandu court after being convicted of rape