Kathmandu, April 21 -- Kushal Bhurtel loves the TU International Cricket Ground, and it is two-sided.

It was five years ago when a young Bhurtel entered the home of Nepali cricket for the first time as a player of the senior team.

In his first T20I debut, Bhurtel, who came as an opener, smashed 62 off 46 in the nine-wicket win over the Netherlands in the first match of a friendly tri-series, comprising Malaysia, on April 17, 2021.

It was a double round-robin friendly series, with a final between the top two teams. Nepal won the series, defeating the Netherlands by 142 runs in the final on April 24. Nepal had posted a mammoth target of 239 on the back of Bhurtel's 77 off 53.

It was not Bhurtel's second fifty, though. It was his fourth....