Manoj Prabhakar steps down as Nepal men's team head coach

Former India allrounder Manoj Prabhakar has stepped down as the head coach of the Nepal men's national team, the country's cricket board said in a statement. He had been appointed to the role in August this year.

Prabhakar only worked five T20Is and seven ODIs with Nepal, including four matches in the World Cup Super League 2.

Nepal had a successful tour of Kenya under Prabkhakar, winning a five-match T20I series 3-2 and then sweeping the one-dayers 3-0. A 2-1 home ODI series win against UAE followed in November.

In the World Cup Super League, they suffered two defeats to Scotland and one to Namibia, with their other game against Namibia ending in a no result.

Nepal currently sit second from bottom in the World Cup Super League 2 table, with just eight wins from 24 matches.

A bowling allrounder, Prabhakar played 39 Test matches and 130 ODIs for India. He has coached the Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh teams, and was the bowling coach of Delhi when they won the Ranji Trophy in 2008. Prabhakar has also worked with Afghanistan when he joined them as their bowling coach in 2015, continuing on to the 2016 T20 World Cup.