The 2020 Nepal Tri-Nation Series was the fifth round of the 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament and took place in Nepal in February 2020.[1][2] It was a tri-nation series between Nepal, Oman and the United States cricket teams,[3] with the matches played as One Day International (ODI) fixtures.[1] The ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 formed part of the qualification pathway to the 2023 Cricket World Cup.[4][5] The matches were the first ODIs to be played in Nepal.[6][7] On 20 January 2020, the United States confirmed their squad for the series, with Steven Taylor stripped of his vice-captaincy role for disciplinary issues, but being retained in the squad.[8]
| 2020 Nepal Tri-Nation Series | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Part of 2019–2023 ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 5–12 February 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Nepal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Oman won their first three matches.[9] In the last fixture of the series, the United States were bowled out for 35 runs, the joint-lowest total in an ODI match.[10]
Squads
 Nepal[11] |  Oman[12] |  United States[13] |
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In the first match, Nepal's Sharad Vesawkar suffered an injury and was ruled out of the rest of the series, with Subash Khakurel replacing him.[14]
Fixtures
1st ODI
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- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- Sushan Bhari, Abinash Bohara (Nep) and Badal Singh (Oma) all made their ODI debuts.
- This was the first ODI match to be played at this ground.[15]
2nd ODI
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- Oman won the toss and elected to field.
3rd ODI
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- United States won the toss and elected to field.
- Kushal Malla (Nep) made his ODI debut, and at the age of 15 years and 340 days, became the youngest male cricketer to score an international half-century.[16]
4th ODI
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- Oman won the toss and elected to field.
- Kamal Singh Airee (Nep) made his ODI debut.
- Aqib Ilyas scored the first century for Oman in ODIs.[17]
5th ODI
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- United States won the toss and elected to field.
- Zeeshan Maqsood (Oma) scored his first century in ODIs.[18]
6th ODI
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- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- Sandeep Lamichhane (Nep) took his first five-wicket haul in ODIs.[19]
- United States' score of 35 was the joint-lowest total in ODIs.[20]
- This was also the shortest innings by a team in ODIs, in terms of the number of balls played in an innings (72).[21] It was also the shortest match in ODIs, in terms of the number of balls faced (104).[22]