2018 MCC Tri-nation series was a cricket tournament that was held on 29 July 2018 at Lord's in England.[1] The series featured Nepal, Netherlands and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), with the matches played as Twenty20 fixtures.[2] The third fixture, between Nepal and the Netherlands, was given full Twenty20 International (T20I) status by the International Cricket Council (ICC).[3]
| 2018 MCC Tri-Nation Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | 29 July 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location |  England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result |  Nepal and  Netherlands shared the series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rain affected all three matches. The first two fixtures were both reduced to six overs per side.[4] In the third and final match, only 16.4 overs of play was possible, with the game ending in a no result.[5] Nepal and the Netherlands shared the series.[6]
Squads
| MCC[7] | Nepal[8] | Netherlands[9] |
|---|---|---|
Points table
| Team | P | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nepal | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | +2.652 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | +1.667 |
| MCC | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –2.365 |
T20 series
1st T20
v | MCC 62/2 (6 overs) | |
- Marylebone Cricket Club won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to six overs per side due to rain.
- Kashif Ali, Daniel Douthwaite (MCC), Hidde Overdijk and Antonius Staal (Ned) all made their T20 debuts.
2nd T20
MCC 40/4 (6 overs) | v | |
- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to six overs per side due to rain.
- Tom Smith (MCC), Lalit Bhandari, Rohit Paudel, Anil Sah and Aarif Sheikh (Nep) all made their T20 debuts.
3rd T20
v | ||
- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain during Netherlands innings prevented any further play.
- This was a full T20I match.[3]
- Dipendra Singh Airee, Lalit Rajbanshi, Anil Sah, Aarif Sheikh (Nep) and Hidde Overdijk (Ned) all made their T20I debuts.
- Sandeep Lamichhane made his T20I debut for Nepal.[10] He had previously made his T20I debut for the ICC Rest of the World XI team in the Hurricane Relief T20 Challenge match in May 2018.[11]