Batter Max O’Dowd, who played a pivotal role (54 not out in 48 balls)w in guiding the Netherlands to a six-wicket victory over Nepal in their T20 World Cup Group ‘D’ opener, acknowledged the challenge posed by the Asian side saying, “it wasn’t an easy win.”

The Grand Prairie Stadium was awash with the colors and sounds of Nepal on Tuesday, as their fans turned up in droves for their T20 World Cup opener. On Chasing a modest target of 106, O’Dowd remarked, “I definitely wouldn’t say it was easy and a World Cup win is amazing, any World Cup win is great. I think our bowlers bowled extremely well to restrict them to 106 but you see Nepal have so much fight and spirit that they managed to bring it down to what it was. I don’t think it was ever a case of it being an easy win,” O’Dowd said after the match.