Opening ceremony is set to start at 11:15 pm (NST) at Trocadero gardens, Seine river.

Tejbir Bura is the only Nepali to get a gold medal in Nepal’s Olympic history. During the 1924 Winter Olympics, he was part of a multi-national team of mountaineers and the gold was not recognised as official medal for Nepal.

Indu Barma’s side suffer a 82-run defeat against the defending champions to finish Group A in third position.

Openers Gull Feroza (57 off 35) and Muneeba Ali (46 not out off 34) added 105 runs for the opening wicket to take the Pakistanis past 109-run target in just 11.5 overs.

Skipper Indu Barma took three wickets and Samjhana Khadka scored an unbeaten half-century as Nepal defeated the UAE by six wickets in the 2024 Women’s T20 Asia Cup tournament opener that also saw batter Khadka make a number of records.

England moved up to fourth, leapfrogging Brazil after their underwhelming Copa America campaign.

Drawn in Group C, APF Club will play against Nasaf on August 25 and Sabah on August 28 in the preliminary stage of the tournament.

Nepal’s group contains Premier Cup champions UAE, two-time runners-up Pakistan and holders and tournament’s most successful side India.

The win also prevented the host team from sweeping the three-match series. Nepal had lost the first T20 warm up game by 33 runs and the second by four wickets.

Muller has the third most appearances for the national team with 131 caps and 45 goals.

Argentina’s win also ended a record 28-match unbeaten streak for Colombia, whose last defeat also came against ‘La Albiceleste’ in February 2022.

Djokovic’s record-extending 37th Grand Slam final was his chance to emerge from his leanest season for almost two decades and silence those who say his powers are finally diminishing.

The Spaniards also became only the third team in the last nine Euros to win the trophy without coming through a shootout at some point in the tournament following France and Greece.

On Sunday, defending champions Argentina take on Colombia at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, to decide the continental title.

Krejcikova banged down five aces in the deciding set and when Paolini wavered at 3-3 it proved decisive.

Dahal has been drawn alongside Viktor Axelsen of Denmark, Nhat Nguyen of Ireland and Misha Zilberman of Israel.

It was an emphatic answer after the criticism heaped on the English side for some languid showings against underwhelming opposition earlier in the tournament.

Uruguay will play Canada a day earlier in the third-place playoff.

The preparatory series will serve as Nepal’s preparation for the upcoming 2024 ACC Women’s T20 Asia Cup, which is set to take place from July 19 to July 28 in Dambulla.

Argentina will take on either Uruguay or Colombia, who meet on Wednesday, in the final in Florida on Sunday.