Nepal had lost its first match against DDCA U-25 by four wickets on Monday but won the second by 36 runs on Tuesday.
Electing to field first, Nepal restricted DDCA U-25 to 123/6 in the T20 match and met the target in 19.4 overs losing five wickets.[break]
Nipun Malhotra of DDCA U-25 scored a run-a-ball 25 and Akarshit Gomil added 24 runs off 17 balls. Ankur Julka (19 runs), Kuldeep Rawat (unbeaten 19 runs), Jaideep Chauhan (15 runs) were the other contributors for the Delhi team.
Sagar Pun claimed two wickets and Amrit Bhattarai, Avinash Karn, Paras Khadka and Shakti Gauchan took a wicket each.
Chasing the total, Nepal lost opener Subash Khakurel in the very first ball of the innings while another opener Pun hit 19 runs off 27 balls. Binod Bhandari scored an unbeaten 26 runs off 14 balls and Pradeep Airee garnered 26 runs off 31 balls. Similarly, skipper Paras Khadka added 23 runs off 21 balls and Gyanendra Malla scored 18 runs off 24 balls. Sharad Vesawkar struck a six off the only delivery he faced.
Kuldeep Rawat and Puneet Mehra claimed two wickets each and Abhishek Sharma picked up one wicket for DDCA U-25.
Nepal will take on Railways XI at the Roshanara Club Ground in the next practice match on Friday.
The Nepali team is scheduled to play seven practice matches during its Delhi tour.
Nepal is touring the Indian capital as part of preparations for the upcoming ICC World T20 Qualifiers to be held in the United Arab Emirates from November 15 to 30. Nepal is pitted against Afghanistan, Scotland, the Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, Bermuda and Denmark in Group B of the qualifiers.
The top six teams of the qualifiers will progress to the World T20 to be held in Bangladesh in 2014.
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