List of Nepal Twenty20 International cricket records

Nepal played their first Twenty20 International match against Hong Kong on 16 March 2014, and these records date from that match.

Listing criteria 

In general, the top five are listed in each category (except when there is a tie for the last place among the five, in which case, all the tied record holders are noted).

The name of the players who have played at least one match in the last or ongoing series/tournament has been marked in bold.

Team records

Overall record

Team wins, losses, draws and ties

Team scoring records

Highest innings totals 
The highest score for Nepal is 314/3 scored against Mongolia during the 2022 Asian Games, this is the all time highest total by any team in T20Is. Before that, the highest innings total scored in T20Is has been scored twice. The first occasion came in the match between Afghanistan and Ireland when Afghanistan scored 278/3 in the 2nd T20I of the Ireland series in India in February 2019. The Czech Republic national cricket team against Turkey during the 2019 Continental Cup scored 278/4 to equal the record.

Lowest innings totals

Highest match aggregate

Lowest match aggregate

Highest win margins (by wickets)

Highest win margins (by runs) 
Nepal won by 273 runs against Mongolia in the Asian games 2023 group stage match in Hangzhou, China. This is the highest margin of victory in terms of runs in all T20s. The previous biggest margin was Czech Republic's 257-run win against Turkey in 2019.

Highest win margin (by balls remaining)

Lowest win margins (by runs)

Lowest win margin (by wickets)

Lowest win margin (by balls remaining)

Special T20I Team Records 

 Highest Runs scored in an inning: 314 - Nepal's 314 for 3 against Mongolia in the Asian Games is the first such instance where a team scored more than 300 runs in T20s. The highest T20 total before this was 278, scored by Afghanistan against Ireland in 2019 and by Czech Republic against Turkey also in 2019. These are also the highest totals in men's T20 internationals.

 Highest Win Margin by Runs: 273 - Nepal's margin of win first instance where a team scored more than 300 runs in T20. is the highest margin in terms of runs in all T20s. The previous biggest margin was Czech Republic's 257-run win against Turkey in 2019.
 Most 6s in an innings: 26 - Sixes hit by Nepal batters against Mongolia in 2023 Asian games group stage- the most in a T20 international by a team. The previous highest were 22, by Afghanistan against Ireland in Dehradun in 2019 and by West Indies against South Africa in Centurion earlier this year. These are also the most in any T20 match, beating the 23 sixes hit by Balkh Legend batters against Kabul Zwanan in the Afghanistan Premier League in 2018.

Individual records

Batting records

Most career runs

Fastest runs getter

Most runs in each batting position

Most runs against each team

Highest score against each team

Most individual score in each batting position

Highest career average

Highest career strike rate

Highest individual score

Most fifties and over

Most centuries 
A century is a score of 100 or more runs in a single innings.

Most career sixes

Most career fours

Highest strike rate in an innings

Most runs in a calendar year

Most runs in a series

Most ducks 
A duck refers to a batsman being dismissed without scoring a run.

Special batting records 

 Fastest 100: Kushal Malla- 34 - Balls taken to reach his hundred, which is the fastest in T20Is. The previous record of 35 balls was jointly held by David Miller, Rohit Sharma and Czech Republic's Sudesh Wickramasekara.
 Fastest 50: Dipendra Singh Airee- 9 - Balls taken to hit a fifty against mongolia in 2023 Asian games. Airee's innings featured eight sixes and no fours. This is the fastest fifty in all T20s, beating the previous record of 12 balls, which was jointly held by Yuvraj Singh, Chris Gayle and Hazratullah Zazai. While Yuvraj's fifty came in a T20I, the other two were scored in T20s. 

 Most sixes in an over: Dipendra Singh Airee 6 sixes in 6 balls- During the group stage game against Mongolia in the 2023 Asian games, Airee scored 5 consecutive sixes in remaining 5 balls of an over and hit another 6 in the next ball by different bowler in the next over. 
 Highest Strike-rate in an innings: Dipendra Singh Airee- 520 - Airee's strike rate in his unbeaten knock of 52 off 10 balls against Mongolia in 2023 Asian games. This is the first instance in T20s when a batter has scored at a 500-plus strike rate in an innings of 10 or more balls. The previous best was Malcolm Waller's strike rate of 430 in a ten-ball innings against Matabeleland Tuskers in 2016 Zimbabwe's domestic T20 competition.
 Second Youngest batter to score 100 in T20I: Kushal Malla- 19y 206d - Malla's age on Wednesday, making him the second-youngest batter to score a century in men's T20Is. The youngest is Gustav Mckeon of France, who scored two centuries before turning 19 in July 2022
 Highest 5th wicket partnership in T20I: Kushal Malla & Dipendra Singh Airee scored a record partnership of 145 for 5th wicket in T20I against Hong Kong on October 23, 2023, beating previous record of 121* by Mark Chapman & James Neesham of New Zealand against Pakistan.

Individual records (bowling)

Most career wickets

Most wickets against each team

Best Bowling Figure against each team

Best career averages

Best economy rates

Best figures in an innings

Most four (and over) wickets in an innings

Most runs conceded in an innings

Most wickets in a calendar year

Most wickets in a series

Hat-tricks

Individual records (fielding) 
Does not include catches taken by wicket-keepers.

Most catches in career

Most dismissals in career

Individual records (other)

Most matches played in career

Most Matches played as Captain 

♣ denotes current captain.

Partnership records 
Generally, in cricket, there are two batsmen who always present at the crease for batting together in a partnership. This partnership will continue until one of them is dismissed, retires or the innings comes to a close.

Highest partnerships by wicket 
In cricket, A wicket partnership describes the number of runs scored before each wicket falls. The first wicket partnership is between the opening batsmen and continues until the first wicket falls. The second wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the number three batsman. This partnership continues until the second wicket falls. The third wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the new batsman. This continues down to the tenth wicket partnership. When the tenth wicket has fallen, there is no batsman left to partner so the innings is closed.

The 5th wicket partnership between Kushal Malla & Dipendra Singh Airee of 145 runs is the World record in T20I.

Highest partnerships by runs 
The highest T20I partnership by runs for any wicket is held by the Afghani pairing of Hazratullah Zazai and Usman Ghani who put together an opening wicket partnership of 236 runs during the Ireland v Afghanistan series in India in 2019

Notes and references

See also 
Nepal national cricket team
List of Nepal Twenty20 International cricketers
List of Twenty20 International records
List of Nepal One Day International records
List of Nepal women Twenty20 international records

Cricket in Nepal
Twenty20