Bermuda's Under 19 cricket team fell to a heavy defeat in its first official warm-up match of the Under 19 World Cup when they were bowled out for just 68 runs to lose by 188 runs.

At Kilat Club, Nepal won the toss and stacked up 256 for 8 in 50 overs thanks to captain Paresh Khadka's 63 and 37 from Gyanendra Malla.

Bermuda vice captain Malachi Jones took three wickets for 65 runs. Captain Rodney Trott produced the tidiest bowling figures of the day with one wicket for 29 runs.

Bermuda tumbled to all out for 68 in 24.1 overs with Jones top scoring with 15 - the only Bermuda player to get into double figures. Raj Shrestha and Amrit Bhattarai took three wickets each and Khadka chipped in with 2 for 12.

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