Ian Harvey named as Nepal consultant for T20 World Cup and will work with fellow Australian Stuart Law, who is their head coach.
Ian Harvey, a former seamer for Australia, has been named the men’s “bowling consultant coach” for Nepal ahead of the 2026 T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka.
Harvey will collaborate with fellow Australian Stuart Law, who is now Nepal’s head coach.
The 53-year-old Harvey has coached Gloucestershire, a team he previously represented as a professional abroad. In 73 ODIs, he scored 715 runs while taking 85 wickets. He played for Australia, which won the ODI World Cup in South Africa in 2003.
With his variations, which included the yorker and a variety of slower balls, as well as his strong hitting with the bat down the order, Harvey established himself as a T20 all-rounder.
He has played in 54 Twenty20 matches, taking 52 wickets and scoring 1470 runs. He scored the first century in England’s groundbreaking Twenty20 Cup in 2003. Then, in the inaugural Indian Cricket League (ICL) in 2007, he won Player of the Tournament.
Nepal will play all of their group matches at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, where they will begin their T20 World Cup campaign on February 8 against England. They participated in four games at the 2024 T20 World Cup, and although they did not win any of them, they came close against Bangladesh and South Africa.