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Captains of Nepal and Hong Kong toss before their match under the ICC World Cricket League Championship, in Hong Kong, on Friday, October 13, 2017. Kathmandu, October 16 It has been certain that Nepal will be relegated to Division 2 as their match with Hong Kong under the ICC World Cricket League Championship cancelled owing to rains today. The match was postponed for today from Sunday due to a tropical storm. But, post-storm rains did not stop and the umpire announced that both the teams receive one point each. Earlier, Nepal were defeated by Hong Kong by 83 runs in the first match played on Friday. Hence, as Nepal earned just one point from the Hong Kong tour, they could not made it to top four teams among the Championship participants and were relegated to the Division Two. Likewise, Namibia and UAE were also relegated to the Division Two. In the current Championship scoreboard, the Netherlands are on the top with 18 points, followed by Papua New Guanea (16), Scotland (1...

Thirty minutes before lunch,  Peter Handscomb  joined  Shaun Marsh  amid a Ranchi tumult. Their captain Steven Smith had just shouldered arms to let Ravindra Jadeja bowl him, symptomatic of a tired mind, the over after Matt Renshaw had also fallen. Australia were still 89 runs short of making India bat again; the hosts were circling hungrily. Five hours later, Handscomb was still there and Marsh not long departed. The Test match was drawn, and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy bout remained locked at 1-1. Through batting of commendable calm and sure-footed technique, the Australian duo had thwarted India in a manner that will be a source of enormous satisfaction to the tourists. By getting out of a predicament few expected them to survive, they took the series to its final match. Equally, India will be left to ponder why they were unable to close out this match in the manner of others during this elongated home season after the sublime innings by Cheteshwar Pujara. Ce...