Nepal defeated Qatar by eight wickets in the opening match of the Quadrangular T20 Series at Mong Kok, Hong Kong, on Wednesday.

Put to bat first after losing the toss, Qatar scored 151 runs in the allotted 20 overs.

Set 152 runs to win, Nepal achieved the target for the loss of two wickets in 17. 2 overs.

Opening batsman for Nepal, Kushal Bhurtel scored highest 32 runs off 19 balls, with four fours and two sixes.

Bhurtel and Asif Sheikh scored 81 runs in partnership for the first wicket. Sheikh scored 33 runs.

Captain Rohit Kumar Paudel and Wasir Ahmed shared a 62-run partnership for the third wicket.

Paudel and Ahmed scored unbeaten 37 and 30 runs respectively.

Mujeeb-ur-Rehman took two wickets for Qatar.

Captain Ikramullah Khan was the top scorer for Qatar with 54 runs off 54 balls including fiver boundaries and two sixes.

Similarly, Shahzaib Jamil made 31 runs off 21 balls with four sixes and Arumugaganesh Nagarajan 13 runs.

Likewise, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman scored unbeaten 20 runs off 19 balls and Mohammed Irshad 18 off 7 balls.

Karan KC, Sompal Kami, Gulsan Jha, Nandan Yadav and Lalit Rajbanshi claimed one wicket each for Nepal.