2025 Scotland Tri-Nation Series
Thirteenth tri-nation series round in 2024-26 WCL2
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The 2025 Scotland Tri-Nation Series was the thirteenth round of the 2024–2026 Cricket World Cup League 2 cricket tournament that took place in Scotland in June 2025.[1] It was a tri-nation series contested by the men's national teams of the Netherlands, Nepal and Scotland.[2] The matches were played as One Day International (ODI) fixtures.[3]
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| Part of 2024–2026 Cricket World Cup League 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 2 – 12 June 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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After the League 2 series, the participating teams also played a tri-nation Twenty20 International (T20I) series.[4] Scotland won the series on net run rate after all three teams finished with equal points.[5]
Warm-up matches
Before the start of the League 2 series, the Nepal men's team toured England and Scotland in May 2025 to play various warm-up matches.[6][7][8]
Newport 212 (42.3 overs) |
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Nepal XI 214/7 (37.5 overs) |
William Tripcony 118 (124) Kushal Bhurtel 4/30 (9 overs) |
Gulsan Jha 80 (72) Alfie Cutmore 3/44 (8 overs) |
- Newport won the toss and elected to bat.
Nepal XI 335/4 (50 overs) |
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MCC 212 (35.3 overs) |
Travis Norris 56 (68) Sompal Kami 3/24 (5 overs) |
- MCC won the toss and elected to field.
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Gloucestershire 2nd XI 121 (17.3 overs) | |
James Matravers 37 (21) Basir Ahamad 2/8 (1 over) |
- Toss uncostested.
Gloucestershire 2nd XI 168/6 (20 overs) |
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Daaryoush Ahmed 52 (29) Sompal Kami 3/38 (4 overs) |
- Toss uncontested.
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Glamorgan 2nd XI 182 (30.4 overs) | |
Henry Hurle 42 (49) Kushal Bhurtel 4/19 (5 overs) |
- Glamorgan 2nd XI won the toss and elected to field.
- Glamorgan 2nd XI were set a revised target of 233 from 34 overs due to rain.
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Aarif Sheikh 44 (56) Zainullah Ihsan 4/18 (5 overs) |
- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- The match was reduced to 40 overs per side due to rain.
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Gulsan Jha 64 (47) Ollie Davidson 2/39 (7 overs) |
Lloyd Brown 30 (33) Sompal Kami 2/30 (5 overs) |
- Nepal won the toss and elected to bat.
- The match was reduced to 45 overs per side due to rain.
- No further play was possible due to rain.
League 2 series
Squads
Fixtures
1st ODI
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- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
2nd ODI
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- Netherlands won the toss and elected to bat.
3rd ODI
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- Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.
4th ODI
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Bhim Sharki 73 (85) Mackenzie Jones 3/55 (9 overs) |
- Scotland won the toss and elected to bat.
- Mackenzie Jones (Sco) made his ODI debut.
5th ODI
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Wesley Barresi 36 (60) Nandan Yadav 3/39 (9 overs) |
- Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.
- Nandan Yadav (Nep) made his ODI debut.
6th ODI
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- Scotland won the toss and elected to bat.
- George Munsey recorded the highest individual score for Scotland in men's ODIs.[12]
- Max O'Dowd (Ned) scored his first century in ODIs and the highest individual score for the Netherlands in men's ODIs.[13][14]
T20I series
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| Date | 15–20 June 2025 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Scotland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Result |  Scotland won the series | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Squads
Gulsan Jha and Sompal Kami were released from Nepal's squad before the start of the series.[18] Also before the series, Charlie Cassell replaced Gavin Main in Scotland's squad.[19] During the series, Ryan Klein was added to Netherlands' squad.[20]
Points table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| 1 | Scotland |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0.672 |
| 2 |  Nepal |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −0.291 |
| 3 |  Netherlands |
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −0.385 |
Fixtures
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- Netherlands won the toss and elected to field.
- Christopher McBride, Finlay McCreath and Liam Naylor (Sco) all made their T20I debuts.
- This was the first men's T20I to be played at this venue.[22]
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- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- Ben Fletcher (Ned), Rupesh Singh and Kiran Thagunna (Nep) all made their T20I debuts.
- Super Over 1: Nepal 19/1, Netherlands 19/0
- Super Over 2: Netherlands 17/1, Nepal 17/0
- Super Over 3: Nepal 0/2, Netherlands 6/0
- This was the first professional men's match (T20 or List A) to go into a third Super Over.[23][24]
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Kushal Bhurtel 65 (51) Ben Fletcher 1/20 (2 overs) |
- Nepal won the toss and elected to field.
- Bhim Sharki (Nep) made his T20I debut.
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- Scotland won the toss and elected to bat.
Notes
- Max O'Dowd captained Netherlands in their second match of the series.
- Matthew Cross captained Scotland in their fourth match of the series.
- Matthew Cross captained Scotland in their first two matches of the series.