Match officials deemed the pitch at Rangiri Dambulla Internationals Cricket Stadium, Sri Lanka, unplayable without a single ball being bowled.

The second T20 match will be played tomorrow while the third and last one on Novermber 22. Both matches will be played in the same venue.

The series carries huge importance to Nepal who are aiming to sneak into the ICC rankings by playing a minimum requirement of eight Twenty20 Internationalss. Nepal has, so far, played three T20 Internationalss, all of them in the ICC World Twenty20 in Bangladesh in March.