Howzthat : Nepali Cricket

New club formed with high aim

2011-11-13T20:39:00.002+05:30

November 12

Cricket, growing sports with craze in Nepal got a new club with high intend to develop cricket. Formation of ‘South West Cricket Club’ being revealed at press meets in Kathmandu on November 12. To develop cricket from grass root in South and West Part of Kathmandu, the club mean to introduce cricket in 20-30 private and government schools. At begin practice net in 3-4 school, club aims to increase this with time passes. Likewise club aspire to appoint coaches at school levels and will conduct the regular School Level, College Level and Club level tournament in future, said at press meet.

Normally, In Nepal cricket clubs not playing proper matches and Cricket Board also lack of Club cricket. In this situation commitment by newly established 'South West Cricket Club' came up with big plans. Just we have to wait and watch of this club's behavior and contribution toward Nepali cricket. Nepali sports lovers will warmly welcome cricket club which intended to generate cricketer for high level.

Executive Committee is as follows:

President : Prof. Dr. Ramkrishna Maharjan
V. President : Mr. Lakpa Sherpa (Principal Lab Scool)
Secretary : Mr. Dilman Maharjan
Joint Secretary : Mr. Navin Maharjan
Tresurer : Mr. Shyam Khadka
Members : Prof. Dr. Shyam Krishna Maharjan
: Mr. Mahesh Shrestha (Principal Puspa Sadan School)
: Mr. Vinay Kumar Jha (Technical)
: Mr. Bhim Shreesh
: Mr. Rabin Joshi

Nepal dominates USA

2011-11-11T19:14:00.002+05:30

August 9

Last match of ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier 2011, Ireland for Nepal ends with happy note as South Asian Nation dominates United State of America.Nepal batted first and posted a competitive 264 for nine in its 50 overs. The top-scorers for Nepal were Naresh Budayair (76: 94b, 5x4, 3x6) and Pradeep Airee (57: 57b, 3x4, 3x6). USA needed to win to confirm its berth at the World Cup.

But USA lost two wickets in the first over and the chase went out of control. Steven Taylor held the key to the chase. But once he fell for 52, USA’s dreams of qualifying ended.

Budayair’s knock fetched him the Man of the Match award: “I had to stay at the wicket and control the innings. I am glad, I was able to do that today. It all went well for us. I thought we had enough on the board. But till Steven Taylor was at the crease, we were a bit wary. Once Steven fell, we were certain of a win.’’ Report: ICC

Nepal register win over PNG

2011-11-11T19:13:00.005+05:30

August 7

At the Coleraine Cricket Club, Nepal posted its most impressive performance yet with the bat. Nepal made 277 for seven in its stipulated 50 overs. Sagar Pun (67: 81b, 8x4, 1x6), Rajesh Pulami Magar (91: 100b, 8x4, 1x6) and Pradeep Airee (59: 57b, 6x4) made worthwhile contributions with the bat for Nepal.

In its reply, Vagi Oala led the charge first for PNG making 64 off 58 balls with five boundaries and hitting a six. Skipper Christopher Kent (80: 99b, 4x4) played brilliantly yet again, but PNG lost wickets at regular intervals as Nepal won by 29 runs.

An excited Pulami Magar won the Man of the Match award for his impressive display with the bat: “We lost a few wickets early on. I had to stay at the wicket and build a partnership. PNg chased down Canada’s score of 266 yesterday. So we were a bit wary of their ability to chase the score. But our bowlers bowled brilliantly and restricted them (PNG) very well.’’ Report: ICC

Vishvakarma spins Nepal to win over Ireland

2011-11-11T19:13:00.003+05:30

August 6

Nepal registered win on the

seventh day of the ICC U19

Cricket World Cup Qualifier in

Derry. On a day when rains

affected the game, plenty of

action was witnessed as the

jostling for the supremacy at

the ICC U19 Cricket World

Cup qualifier.

Hosts Ireland featured in

another last over finish, this

time against Nepal at the

Bready Cricket Club. Nepal

batted first and was restricted

to 187 for seven in 46 overs as

rains forced reduction in the

number of overs. Ireland

skipper George Dockrell picked

up 3-15 even as Sagar Pun

made 50 off 100 balls with three

boundaries and a six.

In the chase, the home team lost

early wickets, but Dockrell (55:

86b, 3x4) and Adam Coughlan

(48:86b, 1x4) added 107 runs

for the fifth wicket.

Once the partnership was

broken, the chase fell apart.

Nepal’s left-arm spinner Rahul

Vishvakarma picked up four

wickets in the final over to bowl

out Ireland for 175 and earned

his side a 10-run win.

Dockrell’s all-round effort

earned him the Man of the

Match award, but the skipper

was a disappointed man: “We

bowled well to restrict them, but

they got a few runs towards the

end which helped them a lot.

The match was in the balance

and we seemed to be getting

close. But we lost wickets

towards the end. We still have

two more games to end the

tournament well.” Report: ICC

Nepal registered win on the seventh day of the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Derry. On a day when rains affected the game, plenty of action was witnessed as the jostling for the supremacy at the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup qualifier.

Hosts Ireland featured in another last over finish, this time against Nepal at the Bready Cricket Club. Nepal batted first and was restricted to 187 for seven in 46 overs as rains forced reduction in the number of overs. Ireland skipper George Dockrell picked up 3-15 even as Sagar Pun made 50 off 100 balls with three boundaries and a six.

In the chase, the home team lost early wickets, but Dockrell (55: 86b, 3x4) and Adam Coughlan (48:86b, 1x4) added 107 runs for the fifth wicket.

Once the partnership was broken, the chase fell apart. Nepal’s left-arm spinner Rahul Vishvakarma picked up four wickets in the final over to bowl out Ireland for 175 and earned his side a 10-run win.

Dockrell’s all-round effort earned him the Man of the Match award, but the skipper was a disappointed man: “We bowled well to restrict them, but they got a few runs towards the end which helped them a lot. The match was in the balance and we seemed to be getting close. But we lost wickets towards the end. We still have two more games to end the tournament well.” Report: ICC

Nepal keeps Namibia at bay in a close game

2011-11-11T19:13:00.001+05:30

August 5

At the Drummond Cricket Club, Nepal and Namibia played out a closely fought match. Nepal posted 217 thanks to Naresh Budayair’s 51 (82b, 1x4, 1x6). Christopher Coombe picked up his career best haul of 6-41 to run through the Nepal middle and lower-order. Namibia’s chase appeared to be faltering, but Merwe Erasmus (63: 77b, 1x4, 3x6) revived the innings first with Coombe (30) and then with Shalako Groenewald (44). In the end, Nepal’s varied attack managed to make the breakthroughs at the right moments to claim a nine-run win.

Coombe won the Man of the Match award for his all-round spell. But he said that a win would have satisfied him more: “This (6-41) was my best spell at any level. The pitch assisted me a bit. While batting, I thought, we could win the game. I had to stay there long enough. Unfortunately, that was not the case today. But hopefully we can come back stronger.” Report: ICC

Second lost for Nepal

2011-11-11T19:12:00.003+05:30

August 3

Canada Under-19s edged past Nepal Under-19s in an attritional thriller at the Bready Cricket Club. Bowlers ruled the roost in a game where only 213 runs were scored in 91.1 overs. Kesavan Juvarajan and Trevor Manoosingh scalped three wickets apiece as Nepal cobbled together a score of 106, with extras - 24 - the highest contribution to the total. The Nepal bowlers were almost as generous, conceding 19 extras in the chase, but Canada owed their victory to Kyle Edghill's dour unbeaten 52 off 133 balls. Seven wickets fell and no other batsman managed to get past 17, but Edghill ensured he saw his side home in the 49th over. Report: cricinfo

Vanuatu surrender against Nepal

2011-11-11T19:12:00.000+05:30

August 1, 2011

Nepal Under-19s went to the top of the table with a crushing 159-run win over Vanuatu at YMCA Club. Half-centuries from opener Sagar Pun and No. 3 Naresh Budayair, and a generous 34 wides from Vanuatu, powered Nepal to 250. Seamer Shem Sala was the most successful Vanuatu bowler, taking three wickets for 49. Vanuatu's chase never got going as medium-pacer Krishna Karki sliced through the top order, leaving them at 20 for 4. Nalin Nipiko was the only batsman to put up any resistance, remaining unbeaten on 36, as his side were rolled over for 91, with left-arm spinner Rahul Vishwakarma taking four late wickets.ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier 2011, Ireland . Report: ICC

Nepal register second win at WC qualifier

2011-11-11T19:11:00.001+05:30

July 31

Nepal defeated Kenya at the match of ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier 2011 at Dublin. Nepal’s bowlers continued to impress and varied attack which limits Kenya for a meagre 107 in 48.5 overs at the Railway Union Cricket Club. Avinash Karn (3-27), Krishna Karki (3-27), Bhuvan Karki (2-9) and Rahul Vishvakarma (2-26) shared the wickets for Nepal.

Nepal lost quick wickets, but skipper Prithu Baskota (31 n.o.) calmed frayed nerves to steer to an easy six-wicket win in 19.2 overs. Karn’s spell earned him the Man of the Match award. Karn was thrilled to have played a part in the win: “Unlike in the subcontinent, the pitches here offer some assistance. It swung a bit and seamed off the surface for me. We wanted to get them for as low a target as possible. It was a tricky chase but the captain got us through.’’ Report:- ICC

Nepal lost to Scotland

2011-11-11T19:10:00.004+05:30

July 29, 2011

In second match of Nepal at ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier 2011, Nepal lost the match against Scotland by 57 runs. Scotland, an ODI nation proved to be too strong for Nepal at the Merrion Cricket Club. Scotland batted first after a rain delay and was bowled out for 214 in 49 overs. Freddie Coleman’s 81 off 102 balls with six boundaries negated Nepal bowler Bhuwan Karki’s 5 for 41. Nepal captain Prithu Baskota (67: 117b, 5x4, 2x6) played a lone hand in the chase as wickets fell at regular intervals.

Man of the Match Coleman was happy to have played a part in the win: ''Conditions were pretty tough. We needed to handle a lot of spinners, because it skidded off a lot. We looked to hit to down the ground and hit as straight as we could. I looked to bat through the innings and play low risk cricket. I thought 200 would be par a score. The chase was tough because it taking a lot more spin towards the end. This makes up for yesterday's loss to Canada.'' Report:- ICC

Nepal defeated Afghanistan in WC qualifier

2011-11-11T19:10:00.002+05:30

July 28, 2011

First day of ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier, Nepal prevailed over Afghanistan in one of the keenly awaited contests of the day at the Leinster Cricket Club. Nepal’s wicketkeeper-batsman Subash Khakurel held the innings together with a 92 ball-54

studded with five boundaries. Nepal was bowled out for 154 in 44.3 overs as Afghanistan bowlers shared the wickets around.

In its chase, Afghanistan was cruising at 57 for one in the 19th over when the match turned on its head. Afghanistan lost wickets at regular intervals and were soon bowled out for 112 in 38.5 overs. The best bowler for Nepal was left-arm spinner Rahul Vishvakarma (4-23) and skipper Prithu Baskota (3-19).

Man of the Match Khakurel considered his knock as a good learning experience: ``It was my first experience of playing in these kinds of conditions. I wanted to bat through the innings. I felt 180 was a par score, but we ended with 154. I was confident that our spinners especially Rahul (Vishvakarma) can be lethal here. We turned it around very well. This win has given us confidence that we can beat any team because of our spinners.’’

In other matches, Ireland win over USA by 1 wicket, Canada defeated Scotland by 6 runs, Kenya tasted 133 runs victory over Vanuatu and Papua surrender against Namibia, as Nam

Captains look ahead to ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier

2011-11-11T19:09:00.002+05:30

July 27, 2011

The captains of the ten teams taking part in the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier tournament in Dublin and the North-West spoke today of their excitement of taking part in the event which begins tomorrow.

Teams from Afghanistan, Canada, Kenya, Namibia, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Scotland, USA and Vanuatu join hosts Ireland for the tournament which is being played from 28 July to 9 August. The top six sides of the tournament will qualify for a place at the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup to be held in Australia next year. The 10 ICC Full Members automatically qualify.The tournament will be played on 14 grounds in Dublin and the North-West - Merrion, The Hills, North County, Leinster, Clontarf, YMCA, Oakhill, Coleraine, Bready 1, Bready 2, Limavady, Strabane, Eglinton and Drummond.

Nepal captain Prithu Baskota leads a side capable of springing a few surprises.``We are just trying to qualify for the ICC u19 World Cup and make it to the top six. If we play to our potential, then definitely we will qualify. We have some really raw talents in our side and the guys are the confident and are hopeful that they will do well.``We have a balanced all-round side. We have played sides like Afghanistan before, they are a good side. We have not seen Ireland and Scotland playing but we have a rough sketch of how they play. If we play to our strengths and stick to the basics, we can go to Australia,’’ says Baskota.

George Dockrell of Ireland said: ``It is definitely a big thing. Last year at the Under 19 Europeans we did well. I want to lead this team to the World Cup next year, that’s the big goal. We have a strong bowling attack and our batting has a lot of depth. It is great for me as a captain that we have a good range of bowlers to choose from. ``My experience at the World Cup will definitely help the squad. I have been talking to the team about my experience. But such is the quality of the squad that we feel confident that we can go forward. Little things are going to be very important, if we want to go through.’ The Ireland captain believes his side will face tough challenge from the sides that it does not play regularly. ``We are looking forward to play sides like Nepal, Afghanistan, Vanuatu. These sides have different styles. It will be a great challenge. But if we do our skills well, we will do well,’’ adds Dockrell.

Afghanistan captain Shir M. Shirzi is happy to go into the tournament as one of the favourites. ``We want to play well. The pitches here will be very good and we will enjoy ourselves playing here. The performances of the senior team gives us hope to do well in the tournament. Few of our players like Jawed Ahmadi, Aftab Alam and Najibullah Zadran have played for the senior team as well. That experience should help. ``There is massive interest back home in the progress of this team. We played our senior team recently and also a team in Pakistan. Both times we performed well. So that gives us a lot of confidence,’’ says Shirzi.

Papua New Guinea Captain Chris Kent leads a team that aims to be the surprise package of the tournament with the addition of former Australia international Andy Bichel as team coach.``Springing surprises is a good thing. The presence of Andy Bichel as our coach has been a great boost. Things have started looking up since the time he has come in. We have got new funding and new coaches. It is a big opportunity for us to get involved with professionals. He has taught us about how to act outside. We now know more subtlety of cricket and the modern game. It is really good for Cricket PNG and for the whole group,’’ says Kent.
Report by:-International Cricket Council (ICC) (Dublin, 27 July 2011)

Players selected for U-19 WC Qualifier

2011-11-11T19:07:00.002+05:30

July 5- 2011, Kathmandu

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) selected 14 members squad for ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier schedule to 28 July to August 9, held at Ireland.Prithu Banskota retained his captaincy, under his captaincy Nepal selected for this global

qualifier after being runner up at ACC U-19 Elite Cup held in Thailand. Other players are Sagar Pun, Bhuwan Karki, Naresh Budhayer, Faizrul Rehman Khan, Subhash Khakurel, Rahul Biswokarma, Avinash Karna, Krishna Karki, Pradep Airee, Suvendu Pandey, , Nischal Pandey, Rupesh Shrivastav and Rajesh Pulami.

Four players Amit Dahal, Amrit Shrestha, Amit Shrestha, Jitendra Mukhiya were named as reserve. Jagat Tamata also retained as coach and CAN member Chhatra Prasad Adhikari appointed Manager of team. 10 teams will participate in the Qualifiers with top six making it to the 2012 World Cup. Apart from Nepal, Namibia, Kenya, Scotland, Ireland, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, USA and Canada are the other teams in the Qualifiers.

Nepal’s matches

Nepal vs Afghanistan July 28

Nepal vs Scotland July 29

Nepal vs Kenya July 31

Nepal vs Vanuatu August 1

Nepal vs Canada August 3

Nepal vs Namibia August 5

Nepal vs Ireland August 6

Nepal vs PNG August

Nepal vs USA August 9

Squad of U-19 WC qualifier

2011-11-11T19:06:00.000+05:30

June 1- 2011, Kathmandu

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announces 18 members squad for closed-camp training. Nepal will participate in ICC U-19 Cricket World Cup Qualifier held in Ireland starting from 28 July to 9 August 2011. In this tournament Nepal along with Afghanistan (Asia region), Namibia, Kenya (Africa region), Scotland, host Ireland (European region), Papua New Guinea,

Vanuatu (East Asia Pacific) and United States of America, Canada (Ameica region) will participate in this single qualifying process for ICC U-19 World Cup Cricket 2012. Top six nations move forward to global tournament.

The players selected by National selection committee under Bijay Kumar Sharma are, Prithu Banskota, Sagar Pun, Bhuwan Karki, Naresh Budhayer, Faizrul Rehman Khan, Subhash Khakurel, Rahul Biswokarma, Avinash Karna, Krishna Karki, Pradep Airee, Jitendra Mukhiya, Suvendu Pandey, Amit Dahal, Amrit Shrestha, Amit Shrestha, Nischal Pandey and Rajesh Pulami.

Close camp will start from June 6 at Kathmandu. Nischal Pandey, Rupesh Shreevastav, Amit Shrestha, Suvendu Pandey, Jitendra Mukhiya and Amrit Shrestha selected for first time to represent U-19 level in International cricket for Nepal.

Biratnagar crowned T-20 Champion

2010-06-10T16:17:00.002+05:30

On the final day of the Pepsi T-20 National League Cricket Tournament, Region No 1 Biratnagar team proved they are best team in this tournament as they clamied titled defeating Bhairahawa by 15 runs at Pulchowk Engineering Campus Cricket Ground, Lalitpur.

Batting first, Region No 1 Biratnagar manages to score respectable 132-7 in their alloted 20 overs. Opener Mehboob Alam blasted with 8 fours in his 53 balls 58 runs. Pushpa Thapa and Santosh Baral scord 17 and 15 runs repectively.Sunny Pun 8 runs and Ajya Rajbanshi 7 runs are other major contributor.
For Bhairahawa, Rahul Kumar BK grabbed 3 wickets in his 4 over spell. Antim Thapa, Bijay Thapa and Hemant Acharya shared 1 wicket each. In reply, Region No 4 Bhairahawa packed for 117 runs loss of 9 wickets. Skipper Antim Thapa stay solid till the Man of the Match Mehboob Alam run out him on 20 runs. Rahul Kumar BK and Durgesh Rajali scored 18 runs each. Faizal Khan, Rijan Prajoo and Subash Pradhan scored 12, 10 and 9 runs respectively. Mehboob Alam took 2 wickets. Manjeet Shrestha, Santosh Baral, Ajay Rajbanshi and Kundan Singha grabbed 1 wicket apiece.

Gyanendra Malla of Region No 3 Kathmandu declared Best Batsmen as he scored 135 runs in 5 matches. Malla manages the average of 68 runs. Binod Das of Region No 2 Birgunj adjudged the Best Bowler of tournament for his 13 wickets in 5 matches. Das manage every wicket conceeding 6.31 runs. Mehboob Alam of Region No 1 Biratnagar declared the Player of the Series as he scored 155 runs in 135 balls in his 6 matches and took 11 wickets. Prizes were given by Chief Guest Pitamber Timalsina (Vice President of National Sports Council), Binaya Raj Pandey (President of CAN), Upendra Prasad Bhattrai (Vice President of CAN), Tarak Dixit (Secretary of CAN), Naresh Shrestha (Member of CAN), Arun Satyal (Member of CAN), Shailesh Chaudhary (Member of CAN), Krishna Kaniaya (Member of CAN), Naresh Rana (Secretary of Region No. 3), Suranjan Deo (CEO of Pepsi), Diwakar Poudel (Head, Corporate Affairs Standard Chartered Bank), Durga Prasad Sangroula (Campus Chief, Pulchowk Engineering Campus).

Bhairawaha lost the game and Kathmandu can’t make final

2010-06-10T10:35:00.001+05:30

Regional no 1 Biratnagar won the match against Bhairahawa by 15 runs and make the final birth at the Pepsi T-20 National League Cricket Tournament at Pulchwok Engineering Campus Cricket Ground, Lalitpur.
Batting first Biratnagar scored decent 132-7 in their allotted 20 overs.Mehoob Alam top scored 58 runs of 53 balls with 8 fours. Pushpa Thapa contributed 17 runs and good finisher of Biratnagar Santosh Baral scored 15 runs with 2 huge hit over the rope. Left arm spinner Rahul Kumar BK took 3 wickets in his 4 four overs. Antim Thapa,Bijay Thapa and Hemant Acharya took 1 wicket each. In reply, Bhairahawa team limited on just 117 runs. Skipper Antim Thapa scored 20 runs with 3 fours. Rahul Kumar BK, Durgesh Rajali and Faizal Khan scored 18, 18 and 12 runs respectively. Rijan Prajoo chipped 10 runs. Mehboob Alam grabbed 2 wickets. Manjeet Shrestha, Santosh Baral, Ajay Rajbanshi and Kundan Singh took 1 wicket apiece. Mehboob Alam of Region No 1 Biratnagar declared Man of the match for his all round performance. Both the team reached the final after equal 4 wins out of 5 matches.

In other match, Kathmandu manages win but fail to secure final and limited in 3rd position in point tally after just 3 wins in 5 games. Batting first, Baitadi manages to score respected 119 runs. Naresh Budhayer scored 35 runs. Pradeep Ayree, Sher Singh Khatri and Kuldeep Khadka scored 24, 18 and 13 runs respectively. Pramod Basnet and Rikesh Lama grabbed 2 wickets each. Sunam Gautam picked 1 wicket. In reply, Kathmandu surpasses the target in just 14 overs with help of Gyanenral Malla’s 50 not out in just 39 balls. Paresh Lohani scored 35 runs and Paras Khadka hits quick fire 28 rusn in just 11 balls. Bhuwan Karki ruturns with 4-1-8-1 figure but can’t avoid the defeat. Gyanendra Malla selected Man of the Match for his dashing half century.

Biratnagar and Bhairahawa triumph

2010-06-10T10:34:00.003+05:30

Region No 1 Biratnagar won the match against Region No 6 Baitadi at the Pepsi T-20 National League Cricket Tournament at Pulchowk Engineering Campus Cricket Ground, Lalitpur.
Batting first, Biratnagar manages the 132-8 in allotted 17 overs. Mehboob Alam fired with bat and scored 52 runs in 28 balls with 2 four and 5 sixes. Ajay Rajbanshi contributed 24 runs and Manjeet Shrestha and Prashant Das scored 15 and 10 runs respectively. Pradeep Ayree, Shakti Bhandari and Prem Budal shared 2 wickets each. Bhuwan Karki took 1 wicket for Baitadi. In reply, Region No 6 couldn’t hold the nerves and hand over the game to Biratnagar. Wicket batsman Binod Bhandari scored fluent 62 runs in 47 balls with 6 four and 3 big sixes. Shakti Bhandari scored quickfire 43 runs of 34 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes but not been able to guide their team to victory. Player of the match Mehboob Alam returns with 4-1-9-3 figure for Biratnagar. Manjeet Shrestha and Ajay Rajbanshi took 2 and 1 wicket respectively.
In the following match of the same day, Bhairahawa dominates Birgunj by 89 runs. Shakti Gauchan scored 40 runs with four hit to fence. Skipper Antim Thapa hits 28 runs and Dipesh Khatri scored quickie 24 runs in 17 balls. For Birgunj, Binod Das and Sanjam Regmi grabbed 3 wickets each. Raj Mohammad got 1 wicket in his name. At second inning, Birgunj shows the poorest batting against the strong bowling attack of Bhairahawa. None single batmen of their playing 11 reached the double figure. Dipendra Shan and Ajay Mandal both scored 7 runs each. Krishna Karki grabbed 3 wickets conceding just 8 runs in his four over spell. Amrit Bhttarai and Rahul Kumar BK took two wickets each. Hemanta Acharya, Vijay Thapa and Shakti Gauchan shared 1 wicket apiece.

Gyanendra power Kathmandu to victory

2010-06-10T10:34:00.001+05:30

Gyanendra Malla of Kathmandu scored impressive half century help Region No 3 Kathmandu to register victory over Nepalgunj.
Batting first Nepalgunj scored 103-7 in allotted 20 overs and Kathmandu surpasses the total in 16.5 overs. Kathmandu batsmen finished the game in style with the huge six at the second last ball of 17th over. For Nepalgunj, Subendu Pandey scored 36 runs in 30 balls with 4 four and 1 six. Mahesh Chhetri contributed patient 54 balls 31 runs. Sitanshu Pandey and Sandeep Shrestha scored 12 and 10 runs respectively. Rikesh Lama of Kathmandu took 2 wickets. Pramod Basnet, Paras Khadka and Sunam Gautam shared one wicket apiece. In reply Gyanendra Malla (65 not out) anchored the inning and Subash Khakurel (21) supported for the team’s victory. Skipper Paras Khadka remains unbeaten in 9 runs in just 4 balls. Sandeep Shrestha took 2 wickets and Hasan Raja grab one. Gyanendra Malla declared tha Man of the Match for his brilliant knock with the bat.

Bhairahawa and Birgunj at top of the point table

2010-06-10T10:33:00.001+05:30

Skipper Binod Das return with 3-0-6-6 figure help Birgunj to dominate Baitadi by 3 wickets at the Pepsi Twenty20 National League Cricket Tournament in Pulchowk Engineering College grounds, Lalitpur. Batting first, Baitadi scored 106-8 and Birgunj surpasses the target 6.1 over to spare.
Binod Bhandari and Pradeep Ayree both scored 29 runs each. Naresh Budhayer contributed 14 runs. Except Binod Das (6 wickets), Raj Mohammad and Rahul Pratap Singh took one wicket each. For Birgunj, Dipendra Shah scored highest 33 runs. Anil Mandal and Yasin Hawari scored 26 and 14 runs repectively. Pradeep Ayree and Binod Chhetri grab 2 wickets each. Bhuwan Karki and Sher Singh Khatri shared one wicket apiece.

In another following match of the tournament, Bhairahawa toppled the Nepalgunj by 25 runs. Batting first, Bhairahawa scored respectable 112 runs loss of 8 wickets. Shakti Gauchan and Rahul Kumar BK both scored 18 runs each. Skipper Antim Thapa scored 11 runs for his team with 2 hits to the fence. Sandeep Shrestha of Nepalgunj was the peak of Nepalgunj bowler with 4 wickets conceding just 8 runs in his four over spell. Mahesh Chhetri, Sunil Sunar, Navin Shahi and Nasir Ansari took 1 wicket each. In reply, Nepalgunj team collapse in mere 87 runs in 19.5 runs. Rupesh Sharma top scored 23 runs in 23 balls with 4 four. Mahesh Chhetri, Navin Shahi and Sandeep Shrestha scored 17, 15 and 11 runs respectively. Rahul Kumar BK and Krishna Karki took 2 wickets each. Amrit Bhattarai, Dipesh Khatri, Shakti Gauchan and Antim Thapa shared 1 wicket each.

Baitadi and Bhairahawa accomplished

2010-06-07T17:18:00.004+05:30

All rounder Dipesh Khatri help Bhairahawa to win over fancy Kathmandu by 5 wickets at the Pepsi Twenty20 National League Cricket Tournament in Pulchowk Engineering College grounds, Lalitpur. Electing to bat first, Kathmandu only able to gather 84-9 in their allotted 20 overs.
Opening batsman Paresh Lohani hits 3 four and a six in his 26 runs of 29 balls inning. Skipper Paras Khadka scored 13 runs others fail to score significantly to help their total. 8 out of 11 players from Kathmandu represented Nepal previously in International cricket. Man of the match Dipesh grab 3 wickets and Shakti Gauchan got equal to Dipesh in their four over spell of bowling. Rahul Kumar BK and Amrit Bhattarai grab 2 and 1 wicket respectively. In second inning hard hitting opening batsmen Subash Pradhan makes 35 runs with 3 four and 1 sixes for his team. Dipesh Khatri (17) and skipper Antim Thapa (12) are the other major contributor. For Kathmandu, Dipendra Chaudhary took 2 wicket and Pramod Basnet and Rikesh Lama shared 1 wicket each.

In second match of the day, Pradip Ayree anchored the inning with brave 47 not out to take the match from Nepalgunj by 1 wicket in 19.2 over. Nepalgunj fail to impress with bat after winning the toss and choose to bat. No. 7 batsmen Sandeep Shrestha show some talent with 21 not out and Sahil Rana scored 12. Rupesh Sharma (10) is the other key contributor for Nepalgunj where as other fail to reach double numeral. Bhuwan Karki and Shakti Bhandari took 2 wickets each and Binod Chhetri and Santosh Bhatta shared one wicket apiece. After losing the first wicket in 8 runs in 2.1 over, Baitadi never looks comfortable till the Pradeep’s arrival. Ayree hits all over the ground for his terrific inning from one end and saw the nonstop wicket fall in other end till the 9th wicket fall. No 11 Prem Budal supported Man of the match Pradeep Ayree to register the first victory in tournament. For Nepalgunj, Nasir Ansari grab three wickets and Subendu Pandey and Sandeep Shrestha took 2 wickets each. Navin shahi got one.

Mandal shines at Birgunj win; Bhairahawa be the victor

2010-06-07T17:18:00.002+05:30

Anil Mandal scored brilliant 88 runs to register resounding victory over Biratnagar at the Pepsi Twenty20 National League Cricket Tournament at the Pulchowk Engineering College grounds, Lalitpur. Batting first, Biratnagar scored 116-7 in their allotted 20 overs.
Sunny Pun top scored 40 runs of 43 balls and Santosh Baral scored quick fire 23 runs of 13 balls. Sanjam Regmi is the peak of Birgunj bowler with 3-26. Raj Mohammad grab 2 wickets and Binod Das and Anil Mandal shared a wicket each.
In reply, lone performance by Anil Mandal help Birgunj to surpasses the target. Pushpa Thapa took 2 wickets. Manjeet Shrestha and Ajya Rajbanshi grab one wicket each. Mandal declared man of the match for his brilliant batting.

In another match, Region-IV (Bhairahawa) defeated Region-VI (Baitadi) by four wickets. Baitadi could only congregate 78-7 before Bhairahawa overcame the total for the loss of six wickets in 16.3 overs. Binod Chhetri top scored with 16 runs for Baitadi. Skipper Shakti Bhandari (14) and Binod Bhandari (12) were the only Baitadi batsman to score in double digits. Man-of-the-match Rahul Kumar BK grabbed claimed of 3-6 while Dipesh Khatri, Krishna Karki and Shakti Gauchan bagged one wicket apiece for Bhairahawa.
In reply, a 29-run fourth wicket partnership between skipper Antim Thapa (20) and Durgesh Rajali (16) secured win for Bhairahawa. Binod Chhetri returned with figures of 3-9 for Baitadi. Rajendra Bam, Shakti Bhandari and Kuldeep Khadka took one wicket each. Region-V (Nepalgunj) will take on Baitadi and Kathmandu will meet Bhairahawa on Wednesday.

Biratnagar stunned Kathmandu; Birgunj triumph

2010-06-07T17:18:00.000+05:30

Region-I (Biratnagar) register slight 4 runs succeed over Region-3 (Kathmandu) at the Pepsi Twenty20 National League Cricket Tournament in Pulchowk Engineering College Ground, Lalitpur. Put into bat first, Biratnagar scored 113-7 and restricted Kathmandu for 109-9 in 20 overs.
For Biratnagar, Ajay Rajbanshi top scored 38 balls 32 with four hit to fence. Pushpa Thapa, Manjeet Shrestha and Mehboob Alam scored 29, 14 and 10 runs repectively. Paras Khadka, Sunam Gautam and Dipendra Chaudhary took 2 wickets for Kathmandu. Rupesh Shrivastav grab 1 wicket. In reply, patient inning of skipper Paras Khadka of 31balls 31 can’t avoid loss against Biratnagar. Sunam Gautam, Gyanendra Malla and Rikesh Lama scored 21, 18 and 13 runs respectively. Manjeet Shrestha, skipper of Biratnagar declared Man of the Match for his all round performance.

In another match at same day, Birgunj record 4 wickets victory over Nepalgunj in the tournament. Nepalgunj scored 81 runs in loss of six wickets in their allotted 20 over and Birgunj surpasses the target in 17.5 over losing 6 wickets. For Nepalgunj, Sandeep Shrestha, Rupesh Sharma, Anupam Singh and Tajuddin Halwai scored 15, 13, 12 and 10 runs respectively. Raj Mohammad, Biond Das, Rahul Pratap Singh and Sanjam Regmi shared 2 wickets each and Amit Jha took single wicket.
Binod Das scored quickie unbeaten 32 of just 22 balls with 4 huge sixes and a four during the run chase supported by Sanjam Regmi (14) and Suraj Patel (10). Nirmal KC and Sandeep Shrestha took 2 wickets each and Sahid Riza grab 1 wicket for Nepalgunj.

Kathmandu and Biratnagar wins the opener

2010-06-07T17:16:00.001+05:30

Biratnagar register the comprehensive 9 wickets victory over Nepalgunj at the inaugural match of Pepsi Twenty20 National League Cricket tournaments at the Pulchowk Engineering College grounds, Lalitpur. Batting first, Nepalgunj could only assemble 72-9.
Mahesh Chhetri, the wicket keeper batsman of National Cricket team top scored 38 runs in 62 balls. Other batsmen fail to score in double digit. Mehboob Alam and Manjeet Shrestha shared 2 wickets each. Ajay Banshi, Kundan Singh and Pushpa Thapa took 1 wicket apiece.
In reply, Biratnagar manage easy victory in 12.1 overs. Lone wicket fell was the explosive opening batsman Mehboob Alam in 6 runs. Sunny Pun and Pushpa Thapa shared 69 runs of partnership to register easy victory. Sunny scored 35 runs and Man of the match Pushpa scored 29 runs. Navin Shahi took the lone wicket took by Nepalgunj.

In another match, Region No 3 Kathmandu dominates Region No 2 Birgunj by 62 runs at the second match of Pepsi Twenty20 National League Cricket tournaments at the Pulchowk Engineering College grounds, Lalitpur. Electing to bat first, Kathmandu scored colossal 194 losses of 5 wickets. Player of the match Dipendra Chaudhary top scored 68 runs in 45 balls with 5 sixes and 2 fours. Skipper Paras Khadka scored quickfire 47 runs in just 21 balls with 9 fours and 1 sixes. Paresh Lohani and Sanjay Shrestha are other major contributor with 32 runs and 28 runs repectively. Binod Das, Sanjam Regmi, Raj Mohammad and Yasin Hawari shared 1 wicket apiece of Region No 2.
In reply, Birgunj team restricted in mere 132-6 with tough bowling and fielding by Kathmandu. Dipendra Shah scored 47 runs in 41 ball with 3 big sixes. Mohammad Hasim 33 in 30 balls and Binod Das 27 in 25 balls are other major contributor. Pramod Basnet and Sunam Gautam shared 2 wickets each for Kathmandu. Girish Sharma grabs one wicket.

CAN selected preliminary squad

2010-06-01T11:23:00.005+05:30

(2010-4-25)
Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) today named a preliminary 20-member squad for the ICC World Cricket League Division-IV slated for August 14-21 in Italy. This is single way to reach world cup 2015 for Nepal.

The players are Paras Khadka, Gyanendra Malla, Mahesh Chhetri,Shakti Gauchan, Sharad Vesawkar, Anil Kumar Mandal, Dipendra Chaudhary, Basant Regmi, Binod Das, Sanjam Regmi, Rahul Kumar BK, Mehboob Alam, Binod Bhandari, Amrit Bhattarai, Naresh Bahadur Budhayer, Anil Kumar Mandal, Subhash Khakurel, Manjit Shrestha, Prithu Banskota, Sunam Gautam and Pradeep Airee.
Nepal will participate the tournament along with host Italy, Tanzania, Argentina, USA and Cayman Islands.

Nepal became the runner up

2010-06-01T11:23:00.003+05:30

(2010-4-9)

Nepal’s dream to lift most imperative trophy among non-test playing nation, spoil by Afghanistan as they defeated Nepal by 97 runs in final of ACC Trophy Elite 2010 in Kuwait. Batting first, the latest ODI nation
Afghanistan scored respectable 224 in their allotted 50 overs with help of 58 by opener Karim Sadiq. The major boost of their total was 97-run stand between Raees Ahmadzai and Mohabbad Nabi for the seventh wicket. Raees scored 52 and Nabi scored 48 runs. Mirwais Ashraf and Nowroz Mangal scored 24 and 14 runs respectively. Binod Das was peak of Nepali bowler with 3-35. Paras Khadka and Rahul BK shared 2 wickes each and Basanta Regmi claim 1 wicket.

In reply, Nepal never seems comfortable against both pace and spin bowling of Afghanistan. Sharad Vesawkar and Gyanendra Malla shows some fight with 35 and 30 runs respectively, but never troubled the Afghanistan. Skipper Paras Khadka (11) and Sanjam Regmi (10) was other double figure achiever. Nepal threw all the wickets in 129 runs in 40 overs. Nowroz Mangal and Mirwais Ashraf shared 2 wickets each for Afghan. Shahpoor Zadran, Mohammad Nabi, Samiullah Shinwari and Hamid Hassan shared 1 wicket apiece.
Raees Ahmadzai declared Man of the Final for his key contribution through his bat in the ultimate.


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Final: Nepal vs Afghanistan at Hubara
April 9, 2010

Nepal won the toss and elected to field

AFGHANISTAN		R	B	4s	6s
Karim Sadiq	c P. Khadka b R.Vishvakarma	58	105	2	2
Noor Ali Noori	run out G. Malla	5	12	0	0
Muhammad Shahzad	c Chhetri b B. Das	0	2	0	0
Nowroz Mangal	c A. Mandal b B. Das	14	14	3	0
Mirwais Ashraf	c G. Malla b R.Vishvakarma	24	26	1	2
Asghar Stankezai	run out B. Regmi	6	18	0	0
Raees Ahmadzai	c D. Chaudhary b P.Khadka	52	64	5	1
Mohammad Nabi	st Chhetri b B. Regmi	48	46	1	2
Samiullah Shinwari	b P.Khadka	5	4	1	0
Hamid Hassan	not out	5	5	1	0
Shahpoor Zadran	b B. Das	2	4	0	0
Extras: w 2, lb 3		5
Total		224 all out off 49.6 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-14 (5.4 overs, Sadiq 9*), 2-14 (5.6 overs, Sadiq 9*), 3-39 (11.5 overs, Sadiq 17*), 4-98 (24.6 overs, Karim 52*), 5-110 (28.1 overs, Stanekzai 5*), 6-114 (30.1 overs, Ahmadzai 2*), 7-211 (47.2 overs, 51*), 8-217 (48.1 overs, Shinwari 5*), 9-217 (48.3 overs, Hassan 0*),10-224 (49.6 overs, Hassan 5*)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Shakti Gauchan	9	0	44	0
Binod Das	8	2	35	3
Paras Khadka	8	1	35	2
Basant Regmi	10	1	38	1
Rahul Vishvakarma	9	0	40	2
Sanjam Regmi	6	0	29	0

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Mahesh Chettri	c M. Shahzad b M. Ashraf	4	15	0	0
Anil Mandal	c A. Stanekzai b M. Ashraf	5	11	1	0
Shakti Gauchan	c M. Nabi b S.Zadran	6	23	0	0
Paras Khadka	lbw M. Nabi	11	30	0	0
Gyanendra Malla	run out M. Shahzad	30	43	3	0
Sharad Vesawkar	run out M.Ashraf	35	60	3	0
Basant Regmi	b N. Mangal	5	9	0	0
Dipendra Chaudhary	b H. Hassan	0	1	0	0
Binod Das	c M. Shahzad b S. Shinwari	8	20	0	0
Sanjam Regmi	not out	10	24	0	0
Rahul Vishvakarma	b N. Mangal	1	5	0	0
Extras: nb 1, w 12, lb 1		14
Total		129 all out off 40 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-16 (3.2 overs, Mandal 5*), 2-18 (5.5 overs, Gauchan 1*), 3-28 (10.2 overs, Khadka 5*), 4-49 (16.6 overs, Malla 15*), 5-75 (23.3 overs, Vesawkar 10*), 6-85 (25.6 overs, Vesawkar 14*), 7-86 (26.4 overs, Vesawkar 15*), 8-102 (31.6 overs, Vesawkar 22*), 9-124 (37.5 overs, Sanjam 8*),10-129 (39.6 overs, Sanjam 10*)

AFGHANISTAN	O	M	R	W
Shahpoor Zadran	7	3	11	1
Mirwais Ashraf	7	0	31	2
Mohammad Nabi	7	0	22	1
Samiullah Shinwari	10	1	32	1
Hamid Hassan	6	0	23	1
Nowroz Mangal	3	0	9	2

AFGHANISTAN WON BY 95 RUNS

Man of the Match: Raees Ahmadzai (Afghanistan)

Nepal into final with 8 runs victory

2010-06-01T11:23:00.001+05:30

(2010-4-7)
Despite scoring the huge total of 271-6 led by brilliant batting of Sharad Vesawkar’s 97 Not out, Nepal had face Suresh Navaratnam’s scare and almost losses the game before the danger man being out in 257 runs as eighth wicket in 48.2 overs. Which yield 8 run victory over Malaysia in First semi final and make the final date set against Afghanistan, who beat Hong Kong by five wickets in another semi-final today. Chasing 206 to win, Afghanitan overcame the total losing five wickets in 44 overs. Batting first, Nepal had a poor start losing opener Anil Mandal (4) at 11-1 but Mahesh and Shakti guided their team to 98-2 with 87-run second wicket stand. Sharad and Gyanendra then combined to add further 115 runs for the fifth wicket to help post a huge total.

Losing early wicket of Anil meant Mahesh made a patient 43 off 86 ball while Shakti scored quickie 57-ball 52 that included four boundaries. Gyanendra hit two fours in his 61-ball 49 before being bowled by Sharulnizam Yusof. Suresh, Sharulnizam and Eszrafiq Azis took two wickets each for Malaysia.
In second inning, Malaysia were shaky at 45-3 by the 13th over before Suresh and skipper Suhan Kumar consolidated the innings, putting on 82 runs for the fourth wicket. Suhan scored 70 off 89 balls with six boundaries while man-of-the-match Suresh made a terrific 115, hitting six fours and three sixes in his 103-ball knock. Basanta Regmi, Paras Khadka and Sanjam Regmi shared 2 wickets each. Rahul BK, Shakti Gauchan and Mehboob Alam got 1 wicket apiece. Nepal never lost with Malaysia in 50 overs cricket format.

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Semi-Final

Nepal vs Malaysia at Hubara

April 7, 2010

Malaysia won the toss and elected to field

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
†Mahesh Chettri	c wk E. Azis	43	86	3	0
Anil Mandal	c R. Madhavan b S. Navaratnam	4	12	0	0
Shakti Gauchan	c wk S. Yusof	52	57	4	0
Gyanendra Malla	b S. Navaratnam	49	61	2	0
*Paras Khadka	c S. Yusof b E. Azis	2	7	0	0
Sharad Vesawkar	not out	97	66	10	1
Dipendra Chaudhary	st wk S. Yusof	14	10	2	0
Mehboob Alam	not out	1	1	0	0
Sanjam Regmi	DNB
Basant Regmi	DNB
Rahul Vishvakarma	DNB
Extras: w 3, lb 6		9
Total		271 for 6 off 50 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-11 (2.6overs), 2-98 (22.6 overs), 3-116 (27.6 overs), 4-120 (29.3 overs), 5-235 (46.3 overs), 6-268 (49.4 overs)

MALAYSIA	O	M	R	W
Suresh Navaratnam	10	0	59	2
Hassan Ghulam	9	1	51	0
Damith Warusavithana	4	0	18	0
Shahrulnizam Yusof	10	0	48	2
Nik Arifin	8	0	39	0
Eszrafiq Azis	9	0	50	2

MALAYSIA		R	B	4s	6s
Damith Warusavithana	b M. Alam	0	1	0	0
Rakesh Madhavan	c wk S. Regmi	7	34	0	0
Ahmad Faiz	c A. Mandal b P. Khadka	0	6	0	0
*Suhan Kumar	lbw S. Regmi	70	89	6	0
Suresh Navaratnam	c S. Regmi b P. Khadka	115	103	6	3
Anwar Arudin	c P. Khadka b S. Gauchan	7	19	0	0
Eszrafiq Azis	b R.Vishvakarma	1	4	0	0
Hassan Ghulam	c D. Chaudhary b B. Regmi	19	16	0	2
†Shafiq Sharif	run out	31	18	5	0
Sharulnizam Yusof	b B. Regmi	2	3	0	0
Nik Arifin	not out	3	5	0	0
Extras: w 5, lb 2, b 1		8
Total		263 all out off 49.4 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-0 (0.1 overs,), 2-1 (1.3 overs), 3-45 (12.4 overs), 4-127 (30.6 overs), 5-142 (35.5 overs), 6-146 (36.6 overs), 7-173 (40.6 overs), 8-255 (48.2 overs), 9-257 (48.2 overs), 10-263 (49.4 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Mehboob Alam	5	3	16	1
Paras Khadka	10	0	42	2
Sanjam Regmi	10	0	60	2
Basant Regmi	8.4	0	58	2
Shakti Gauchan	10	0	44	1
Rahul Vishvakarma	6	0	40	1

NEPAL WON BY EIGHT RUNS

Man of the Match: Suresh Navaratnam (Malaysia)

Nepal enter semi with easy victory

2010-06-01T11:22:00.005+05:30

(2010-4-6)
Sanjam Regmi and Binod Das demolish the Kuwait inning and gutsy half century by wicketkeeper batsman Mahesh Chhetri made Nepal to register effortless win over Kuwait at the last match of the league. Which yield cent percent result in league, which made become group winner and will play with Malaysia, who stunned the pre-tournament favorites the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by two wickets to advance with Group B toppers Afghanistan. Malaysia piped the UAE on better net run-rate. Afghanistan will meet the Group A runners up Hong Kong also on Wednesday.

Earlier Saud Iqbal, Saad Khalid and Saif Ullah recover after the poor condition of 5-31 in 11.5 over as they scored 26, 24 and 21 respectively. Opener Khalid Butt and Muhammad Akhudzada is other major contributor with 13 and 10 runs. Kuwait manages to score mere 120 in 42 overs and threw all their wickets. Sanjam got 4 wickets and Binod took 3. Mehboob Alam and Paras Khadka return with 2 and 1 wicket.
Besides Mahesh (63) other opener Anil Mandal scored 33 runs. Shakti Gauchan remain unbeaten on 13 runs and Gyanendra Malla at 3 to register 8 wickets win in 26.4 overs.
Sanjam Regmi selected for Man of the Match later. Nepal will play first semi final against Malaysia on April 7.

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Nepal vs Kuwait at Hubara
April 6, 2010

Nepal won the toss and elected to field

KUWAIT		R	B	4s	6s
Khalid Butt	c G. Malla b B. Das	13	30	2	0
Haji Javed	c G. Malla b M. Alam	5	16	1	0
Lasantha Dimuthu	lbw B. Das	1	7	0	0
Muhammad Akhudzada	c S. Regmi b P. Khadka	10	22	1	0
Hisham Mirza	b M. Alam	2	4	0	0
Muhammad Amin	c P. Khadka b B. Das	1	5	0	0
Saif Ullah	lbw S. Regmi	21	52	1	1
Saud Iqbal	c + b S. Regmi	26	48	1	0
Saad Khalid	not out	24	54	3	0
Nalaka Dayan	b S. Regmi	5	12	0	0
Khalid Yamin	c A. Mandal b S. Regmi	0	2	0	0
Extras: w 8, lb 4		12
Total		120 all out off 42 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-13 (4.6 overs), 2-18 (7.4 overs), 3-22 (9.2 overs), 4-26 (10.3 overs), 5-31 (11.5 overs), 6-48 (16.6 overs), 7-73 (23.3 overs), 8-108 (37.6 overs), 9-120 (41.4 overs), 10-120 (41.6 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Mehboob Alam	8	0	25	2
Binod Das	9	1	24	3
Paras Khadka	8	2	9	1
Shakti Gauchan	3	0	11	0
Sanjam Regmi	9	1	26	4
Rahul Vishvakarma	5	0	21	0

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Mahesh Chettri	c + b S. Iqbal	63	83	8	0
Anil Mandal	c S. Ullah b K. Yamin	33	51	3	0
Shakti Gauchan	not out	13	24	1	0
Gyanendra Malla	not out	3	2	0	0
Sharad Vesawkar	DNB
Mehboob Alam	DNB
Dipendra Chaudhary	DNB
Paras Khadka	DNB
Binod Das	DNB
Sanjam Regmi	DNB
Rahul Vishvakarma	DNB
Extras: w 8, lb 1		9
Total		121 for 2 off 26.4 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-80 (3.1 overs), 2-111 (22.5 overs)

KUWAIT	O	M	R	W
Nalaka Dayan	6	0	33	0
Haji Javed	6	0	15	0
Saad Khalid	6	0	35	0
Khalid Yamin	5	0	18	1
Muhammad Amin	2	1	7	0
Saud Iqbal	1	0	8	1
Saif Ullah	0.4	0	4	0

NEPAL WON BY EIGHT WICKETS

Man of the Match: Sanjam Regmi (Nepal)

Nepal dominates Singapore

2010-06-01T11:22:00.003+05:30

(2010-4-3)
Nepal register enormous wins over Singapore with help of record setting partnership of 135 runs between opener duo Anil Mandal and Mahesh Chhetri. Both misses ton but ease the path for semifinal. The previous best partnership for all wickets was between Paras Khadka and Sharad Vesawkar. Paras and Vesawkar had put on 130-run for the fourth wicket against Fiji during the ICC World Cricket League Division-V in Kathmandu.

Batting first, Singapore manage the good total of 216 runs in 49 overs but fail to defend as Nepal achieve the total in 43.2 overs losing 3 wickets. Philip Childs top score 40 off 51 delivery included 3 hits to fence. Buddhika Mendis, Chetan Suryabanshi, Munish Arora, Saad Januja and Dharmichand Mulema contributed 36, 32, 31, 29 and 17 runs respectively. Shakti Gauchan took 2 wickets for Nepal. Rahul BK, Basanta Regmi and Sanjam Regmi shared one wicket each. Nepali fielders effects 5 run out with their brilliant fielding.
Besides Anil (83) and Mahesh (87), Paras Khadka scored 8 runs. Sharad Vesawkar and Dipendra Chaudhary remain unbeaten in 18 and 9 runs. Mahesh Chhetri declared Man of Match for his big score. Nepal will face Kuwait in the last league match on April 6.

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NEPAL v SINGAPORE at KOC Unity
April 3, 2010

Singapore won the toss and chose to bat

SINGAPORE		R	B	4s	6s
†Chetan Suryawanshi	c Bhattarai b B.Regmi	32	41	3	1
Buddhika Mendis	run out (Bhattarai)	36	72	4	0
Munish Arora	c Chettri b Gauchan	31	55	1	1
Philip Childs	c+b Gauchan	40	51	3	0
Narender Reddy	st Chettri b Vishvakarma	7	7	0	0
Sagar Kulkarni	run out (Bhattarai)	8	9	0	0
*Saad Janjua	run out (S.Regmi)	29	22	4	0
Pramodh Raja	run out (Khadka)	0	7	0	0
Dharmichand Mulewa	c Alam b S.Regmi	17	17	1	1
Muhammad Ali	not out	6	13	0	0
Shoib Razzak	run out (Gauchan)	0	1	0	0
Extras: w10		10
Total		216 all out off 49 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-66 (14.1 overs, Mendis 27*), 2-88 (23.4 overs, Arora 12*), 3-122 (31.2 overs, Childs 14*), 4-143 (34.4 overs, Childs 27*), 5-157 (37.5 overs, Childs 34*), 6-166 (39.5 overs, Janjua 2*), 7-168 (41.3 overs, Janjua 4*), 8-197 (45.3 overs, Janjua 16*), 9-216 (48.5 overs, Ali 6*)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Mahaboob Alam	5	0	26	0
Amrit Bhattarai	5	1	20	0
Paras Khadka	9	1	26	0
Basant Regmi	10	0	45	1
Sanjam Regmi	9	0	41	1
Shakti Gauchan	5	0	26	2
Rahul Vishvakarma	6	0	32	1

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
†Mahesh Chettri	c Razzak b Childs	87	111	8	0
Anil Mandal	b S.Janjua	83	93	7	1
*Paras Khadka	c Suryawanshi b Raja	8	13	1	0
Sharad Vesawkar	not out	18	38	0	0
Dipendra Choudhry	not out	9	6	2	0
Basant Regmi	DNB
Shakti Gauchan	DNB
Mahaboob Alam	DNB
Amrit Bhattarai	DNB
Sanjam Regmi	DNB
Rahul Vishvakarma	DNB
Extras: nb1, w9, lb2, b1		12
Total		217 for 3 off 43.2 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-135 (26.5 overs), 2-159 (31.1 overs), 3-204 (41.1 overs)

SINGAPORE	O	M	R	W
Saad Janjua	9	2	46	0
Muhammad Ali	4	0	19	0
Philip Childs	3.2	0	23	1
Shoib Razzak	6	0	30	0
Buddhika Mendis	4	1	17	0
Narender Reddy	3	0	26	0
Dharmichand Mulewa	7	0	33	0
Pramodh Raja	7	0	21	1

NEPAL WON BY SEVEN WICKETS

Man of the Match: Mahesh Chhetri (Nepal)

Two on two for Nepal

2010-06-01T11:22:00.001+05:30

(2010-4-1)
Replying Oman’s modest target of 170 runs, Nepal overcame the target in 39 over losing four wickets. Oman only gather 169-9 in their first inning where they elected to bat after winning the toss.
Vaibhav Wategaonkar scored 56 runs. Aamir Ali, Adnan Ilyas and Sultan Ahmed scored 24, 22 and 20 runs repectively for Oman. Rahul BK took 3 wickets Shakti claimed 2 wickets. Paras Khadka, Amrit Bhattarai and Mehoob Alam shared one wicket each.

Anil Mandal top scored for Nepal with 39 runs. Mahesh Chhetri, Basanta Regmi, Paras Khadka, Sharad Vesawkar and Dipendra Chaudhary scored 35, 29, 29, 22 and 14 runs, which yield easy victory for Nepal. Aamir Ali grab 3 wickets for Oman.

Paras Khadka declared Man of the match for his all round performance. Oman stays above than Nepal in ICC ranking, and hanging at division 3. Nepal will take on Singapore in their next league match on Saturday.

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NEPAL v OMAN at Unity
April 2, 2010

Oman won the toss and chose to bat

OMAN		R	B	4s	6s
Hemin Desai	b M.Alam	0	4	0	0
Deep Trividi	b A.Bhattarai	4	5	1	0
Vaibhav Wategaonkar	c Bhattarai b Gauchan	56	104	4	0
Adnan Ilyas	c Bhattarai b Gauchan	22	52	3	0
*†Sultan Ahmed	run out (A.Bhattarai)	20	31	0	0
Aamir Ali	c P.Khadka b Vishvakarma	24	42	2	0
Awal Khan	c P.Khadka b Vishvakarma	8	19	0	0
Sufiyan Mehmood	b S.Regmi	9	18	0	0
Syed Tariq Hussain	st M.Chettri b Vishvakarma	2	8	0	0
Khalid Rashid	not out	8	12	0	0
H.Ali	not out	9	5	0	0
Extras: w5, lb2		7
Total		169 for 9 off 50 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-0 (0.4 overs), 2-4 (1.5 overs), 3-53 (17.3 overs), 4-98 (30.5 overs), 5-119 (35.3 overs), 6-140 (42.2 overs), 7-147 (44.4 overs), 8-151 (46.3 overs), 9-153 (47.6 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Mahaboob Alam	6	1	22	1
Amrit Bhattarai	7	2	22	1
Paras Khadka	3	0	8	0
Shakti Gauchan	9	0	23	2
Sanjam Regmi	9	0	33	1
Basant Regmi	8	0	27	0
Rahul Vishvakarma	8	1	32	3

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
†Mahesh Chettri	c+b A. Ali	35	69	4	0
Anil Mandal	c S. Ahmed b A. Ali	39	45	7	0
Basant Regmi	st S. Ahmed b A. Ali	29	32	5	0
Paras Khadka	run out (A.Khan)	29	28	6	0
Sharad Vesawkar	not out	22	31	2	0
Dipendra Choudhry	not out	14	26	1	0
Shakti Gauchan	DNB
Mahaboob Alam	DNB
Amrit Bhattarai	DNB
Sanjam Regmi	DNB
Rahul Vishvakarma	DNB
Extras: w2, lb2		4
Total		172 for 4 off 38.3 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-63 (15.1 overs), 2-80 (19.5 overs), 3-133 (28.2 overs), 4-135 (29.6 overs)

OMAN	O	M	R	W
Haider Ali	8	2	41	0
Hemin Desai	2	0	11	0
Khalid Rashid	6	0	21	0
Deep Trividi	1	0	5	0
Syed Tariq Hussain	7.3	1	27	0
Aamir Ali	10	0	48	3
Awal Khan	3	0	17	0

NEPAL WON BY SIX WICKETS

Man of the Match: Paras Khadka (Nepal)

Nepal stunned defending champion

2010-06-01T11:21:00.005+05:30

(2010-3-31)
Nepal register 118 runs win against defending champion Hong Kong at the opening match of ACC Trophy Elite Cup Cricket Tournament at the Unity grounds in Kuwait.

After winning the toss, Nepal selected batting and scored good total of 236-7 in allotted 50 overs. After losing Mahesh Chhetri for 2 runs, Nepal recovered with the 118 runs partnership between Anil Mandal (72) and Shakti Gauchan (65) for 2nd wicket. Anil took 96-balls to hit eight fours and three sixes in his brilliant knock while Shakti plays patient knock struck six boundaries in his 93-ball innings. Skipper Paras Khadka (1) and Sharad Vesawkar (4) fail to make any impression. Mehboob Alam and Basanta Regmi scored 31 and 10 runs respectively. Dipendra Chaudhary and Binod Das remained unbeaten on 28 and 11 runs. For Hong Kong, Nadeem Ahmed took 3 wickets and Moner and Aizaz got 2 and 1 wicket.

Left arm pacer Mehboob Alam gave Nepal an ideal start to defend 238, dismissing both openers in his first two overs. Binod Das then demolish the off-stump of Husian Butt (15) to reduce the defending champions to 31-3 by the sixth over.
Mehboob also had dangerman Ilyas Gul (27) caught by Shakti at midwicket. Ilyas struck five fours in his 29-ball knock. Although Irfan Ahmed (19), Waqas Barkat (19) and Jawaid Iqbal (16) briefly frustrated the Nepali bowlers but never looked like chasing the overwhelming total. Hong Kong inning restricted on 118 runs in 33.3 overs. Anil Mandal declared Man of the match for his great batting. Nepal will face Oman in their second match.

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Nepal vs Hong Kong at Unity
March 31, 2010

Nepal won the toss and chose to bat

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Mahesh Chettri	lbw A. Khan	2	5	0	0
Anil Mandal	run out J. Iqbal	72	96	8	3
Shakti Gauchan	b N. Ahmed	65	93	6	0
Paras Khadka	b M. Ahmed	1	11	0	0
Sharad Vesawkar	c + b M. Ahmed	4	18	0	0
Mehboob Alam	b N. Ahmed	31	36	1	2
Dipendra Chaudhary	not out	28	24	1	1
Basant Regmi	c N. Khan b N. Ahmed	10	11	0	0
Binod Das	not out	11	6	0	0
Sanjam Regmi	DNB
Rahul Vishvakarma	DNB
Extras: w 6, b 3, lb 3		12
Total		236 for 7 off 50 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-2 (0.5 overs), 2-120 (26.4 overs), 3-126 (29.2 overs), 4-132 (33.2 overs), 5-171 (41.6 overs), 6-186 (43.5 overs), 7-215 (47.4 overs)

HONG KONG	O	M	R	W
Aizaz Khan	5	0	25	1
Irfan Ahmed	6	1	28	0
Asif Khan	3	0	13	0
Nadeem Ahmed	10	0	51	3
Jawaid Iqbal	10	0	48	0
Moner Ahmed	9	2	23	2
Ilyas Gul	7	0	42	0

HONG KONG		R	B	4s	6s
Roy Lamsam	c wk M. Alam	3	7	0	0
Moner Ahmed	b M. Alam	0	1	0	0
Hussain Butt	b B. Das	15	19	2	0
Ilyas Gul	c S. Gauchan b M. Alam	27	29	5	0
Nizakat Khan	b P. Khadka	5	11	1	0
Irfan Ahmed	c M. Alam b S. Gauchan	19	31	1	0
Waqas Barkat	run out P. Khadka	19	41	0	0
Jawaid Iqbal	c P. Khadka b R. Vishvakarma	16	30	1	0
Nadeem Ahmed	c S. Regmi b B. Regmi	0	2	0	0
Aizaz Khan	c D. Chaudhary b B. Regmi	4	19	0	0
Asif Khan	not out	1	12	0	0
Extras: w 7, lb 3		10
Total		118 all out off 33.3 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-1 (0.3 overs), 2-13 (2.3 overs), 3-31 (5.5 overs), 4-54 (10.4 overs), 5-56 (11.4 overs), 6-91 (21.5 overs), 7-98 (23.6 overs), 8-99 (24.4 overs), 9-112 (30.1 overs), 10-118 (33.3 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Mehboob Alam	7	1	33	3
Binod Das	5	0	27	1
Paras Khadka	4	0	12	1
Basant Regmi	8	1	17	2
Shakti Gauchan	5	1	13	1
Sanjam Regmi	2	1	5	0
Rahul Vishvakarma	2.3	0	8	1

NEPAL WON BY 118 RUNS

Man of the Match: Anil Mandal (Nepal)

Troop selected for ACC Trophy Elite Cup

2010-06-01T11:21:00.003+05:30

2010-3-25)

Selection Committee headed by Bijay Kumar Sharma of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) selected 14-member squad for ACC Trophy Elite Cup Cricket Tournament scheduled for Kuwait from March 31 to April 9. Paras Khadka retained the captancy and Gyanendra Malla selected for his deputy.
Other players are, Shakti Gauchan, Dipendra Chaudhary, Sanjam Regmi, Basanta Regmi, Sharad Vesawkar, Anil Mandal, Mahesh Chhetri, Rahul BK, Binod Bhandari, Amrit Bhattarai, Binod Das and Mehboob Alam. While Subash Khakurel, Pradeep Airee and Naresh Budhayer were named as reserves. CAN also nominated Roy Luke Dais the team coach, Suresh Dutta Pandey the assistant coach and Binod Kumar Mainali the team manager. Nepal is in Group A along with defending champions Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuwait and Oman. Group B includes Malaysia, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bhutan and Afghanistan.

Nepal lost the final

2010-06-01T11:21:00.001+05:30

(2010-3-16)

Singapore lifts the ACC U-16 Elite Cup trophy with a comprehensive 68-run victory over Nepal in the final match of the tournament. Batting first, Singapore known as a good batting lineup restricted on just 146-6
in their allotted 40 overs. Thanks to the stiff bowling line up both pace and spin of Nepal, which kept Singapore under pressure throughout the inning. But the man named Vikas Rajgopal stay as solid as pillar for Singapore inning and made patient 58 (107 balls) using maximum of the two-drop catches when he was 23 and 41. Devendra Somare, Satish Bhagat, Nischal Pandey, Rajeev Shah and Sushan Bhari Shrestha claimed one wicket each for the hosts.
In reply, Nepal made decent start scoring 31 runs for first wicket and could not hold nerves and threw their all wickets in mere 78 runs in 22 overs. Navin Param, an off-break bowler becomes nightmare for Nepal as he returns with 8-1-28-4 figures. Saisrikar took 3 wickets and Shivam and Abhiraj shared one wicket each. Navin Param declared Man of the final and Nichal Pandey, who scored 161 runs and took 15 wickets asserted Man of the series and Best bowler of tournament while Vikas Rajagopal selected for Best batsman.

After the match Nepal’s coach Roy Luke Dias wants give credit to Singapore for their outstanding performance. Arjun Menon, Singapore coach shows satisfaction with victory against strong team like Nepal. This is the first time Nepal losses final at the home ground.

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FINAL

NEPAL v SINGAPORE at Tribhuvan University
March 16, 2010

Singapore won the toss and chose to bat

SINGAPORE		R	B	4s	6s
Iishaan Shekhar	c S. Shah b S. Bhagat	21	16	4	0
Keshav Seshadri	b D. Somare	1	8	0	0
Vikas Rajagopal	c H. Chaulagai b N. Pandey	58	107	2	0
Varun Sivaram	c + b R. Shah	14	40	1	0
Mohit Kulkarni	lbw S. Shrestha	9	18	0	0
Sam Franks	run out (H. Chaulagai)	26	41	1	1
Siddharth Sikka	not out	12	10	2	0
Shivam Ahuja	DNB
Navin Param	DNB
Abhiraj Singh	DNB
Saisrikar Pogaru	DNB
Extras: w 2, b 1, lb 2		5
Total		146 for 6 off 40 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-6 (2 overs), 2-26 (4.3 overs), 3-58 (18.3 overs), 4-79 (26 overs), 5-122 (36.2 overs), 6-146 (40 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Hari Chaulagai	2	0	15	0
Devendra Somare	5	1	19	1
Satish Bhagat	3	0	11	1
Nischal Pandey	8	0	27	1
Bibek Chaudhary	7	0	24	0
Rajiv Shah	7	1	20	1
Sushan Shrestha	8	0	27	1

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Sharad Khadka	st wk A. Singh	8	26	1	0
Nischal Pandey	c wk N. Param	11	20	2	0
Suichan Shah	c V. Sivaram b N. Param	2	8	0	0
Dipendra Chand	lbw N. Param	9	12	1	0
Sanam Shrestha	b N. Param	10	22	0	0
Sushan Shrestha	run out (K. Seshadri)	1	5	0	0
Satish Bhagat	c V. Sivaram b S. Pogaru	6	16	1	0
Hari Chaulagai	c S. Sikka b S. Pogaru	7	9	0	0
Rajiv Shah	st wk S. Pogaru	1	7	0	0
Bibek Chaudhary	not out	2	5	0	0
Devendra Somare	b S. Ahuja	0	3	0	0
Extras: w 12, , b 4, lb 5		21
Total		78 all out off 22 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-31 (7 overs), 2-31 (7.3 overs), 3-35 (9.3 overs), 4-47 (11.5 overs), 5-48 (12.4 overs), 6-63 (18 overs), 7-68 (18.1 overs), 8-76 (20.2 overs) 9-77 (21 overs), 10-78 (22 overs)

SINGAPORE	O	M	R	W
Iishan Shekhar	2	0	7	0
Varun Sivaram	2	1	8	0
Abhiraj Singh	6	1	15	1
Navin Param	8	1	28	4
Shivam Ahuja	3	0	10	3
Saisrikar Pogaru	1	0	1	1

SINGAPORE WON BY 68 RUNS

Man of the Match: Navin Param (Singapore)

Nepal surpasses Malaysia scare

2010-06-01T11:20:00.005+05:30

(2010-3-14)
Nepal set final ACC U-16 Elite Cup trophy clash with Singapore after registered win against Malaysia by 32 runs at TU stadium, where as Singapore dominate Hong Kong by
133 at Pulchowk cricket ground.
Electing to bat first, after winning the toss, Nepal manages to score respectable 162 runs with help of brave 44 runs of Dipendra Chand. Sanam Shrestha, Sharad Khadka, Nischal Pandey and Rajeev Shah are other major contributor as they scored 24, 23, 14 and 11 respectively. Syahadat was the pick of the Malaysian bowlers with 3-25 while Md Fetri took 2 wickets. Tharmaraj and Nasirudin shared 1 wicket each.

In reply, Malaysia made a slow but steady run chase before Nischal made the break through at 27-1, bowling Razlan Zalati for eight in the 8.2 overs. Left-arm spinner Bibek Chaudhary then dismissed Syahadat (7) and Amerul Hussin (20) to reduce Malaysia to 44-3 by the 24th over. Ahmad Tajudin (21), Tharmaraj (17), Azwan Idris (16) got the starts but failed to build their innings against the tight Nepali bowling. Left-arm spinner Rajeev Shah (3-13) polished off the Malaysian tails with two wickets in the 37th and one in the 39th over. Bibek was the pick of the Nepali bowlers with 3-23 while Devendra Somare took 2-19.

At the Pulchowk grounds, Singapore made 230-9 and dismissed Hong Kong for 97 runs in 30.1 overs.
Shivam Ahuja took three while Iishaan Shekhar and Saisrikar Pogaru bagged two wickets apiece for Singapore.
Meanwhile, Kuwait won the seventh-place playoff with a 69-run victory over at the Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidhyalaya grounds.
Kuwait posted 159-7 and packed Thailand for 90 runs in 21.4 overs.

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NEPAL v MALAYSIA at Tribhuvan University
March 14, 2010

Nepal won the toss and chose to bat

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Sharad Khadka	c T. Mohan b S. Ramli	23	60	2	0
Nischal Pandey	c S. Ramli b F. Sham	14	26	2	0
Suichan Shah	c T. Mohan b S. Ramli	6	20	1	0
Dipendra Chand	run out (M. Mazlan)	44	58	1	0
Satish Bhagat	c + b F. Sham	7	18	0	0
Sanam Shrestha	lbw S. Ramli	24	27	0	0
Sushan Shrestha	run out (M. Mazlan)	7	8	0	0
Hari Chaulagai	b M. Mazlan	8	10	1	0
Rajiv Shah	not out	11	11	1	0
Devendra Somare	b T. Mohan	4	3	2	0
Bibek Chaudhary	run out (A. Tajjudin)	1	2	0	0
Extras: w 4, nb 4, b 2, lb 3		13
Total		162 all out off 40 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-33 (10.1 overs), 2-45 (15.3 overs), 3-54 (19.1 overs), 4-77 (24.3 overs), 5-120 (32.1 overs), 6-138 (35.4 overs), 7-138 (35.5 overs), 8-155 (38.5 overs) 9-160 (39.3 overs), 10-162 (40 overs)

MALAYSIA	O	M	R	W
Muhammad Mazlan	3	0	22	1
Tharmaraj Mohan	7	1	22	1
Fitri Sham	8	0	28	2
Syahadat Ramli	8	0	25	3
Nik Nabil	8	1	28	0
Amerul Hussein	6	0	32	0

MALAYSIA		R	B	4s	6s
Razlan Zalati	b N. Pandey	8	27	0	0
Amerul Hussein	lbw B. Chaudhary	20	35	2	0
Syahadhat Ramli	b B. Chaudhary	7	25	0	0
Ahmad Tajuddin	c S. Bhagat b S. Shreshta	21	36	1	0
Fitri Sham	b B. Chaudhary	12	30	0	0
Azwan Idris	c R. Shah b D. Somare	16	31	1	0
Tharmaraj Mohan	c N. Pandey b D. Somare	17	18	1	0
Ahmad Yahya	lbw R. Shah	5	6	1	0
Muhammad Mazlan	b R. Shah	3	11	0	0
Nik Nabil	not out	2	4	0	0
Fadzrin Rosmanizam	c S. Bhagat b R. Shah	4	6	0	0
Extras: w 8, b 4, lb 3		15
Total		130 all out off 38.1 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-27 (8.2 overs), 2-38 (13.1 overs), 3-44 (15.3 overs), 4-69 (23.4 overs), 5-79 (26.3 overs), 6-112 (33.3 overs), 7-114 (33.5 overs), 8-122 (36.1 overs) 9-124 (36.4 overs), 10-130 (38.1 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Hari Chaulagai	3	0	15	0
Devendra Somare	7	1	19	2
Nischal Pandey	8	0	23	1
Bibek Chaudhary	8	0	23	3
Rajiv Shah	4.1	0	13	3
Sushan Shrestha	8	0	30	1

NEPAL WON BY 32 RUNS

Man of the Match: Dipendra Chand (Nepal)

Three on three for Nepal

2010-06-01T11:20:00.003+05:30

(2010-3-11)
Nepal registered third consecutive win and a secure place in to the semi-final of the ACC U-16 Elite Cup with an 85-run win over Bahrain here at the Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidhyalaya grounds, Bhaktapur.
Batting first after winning the toss,
Nepali opener Sharad Khadka (26) and Nischal Pandey (74) laid the foundation for a huge total with the 1st wicket partnerships of 86 runs in 13.3 overs. The home team lost three wickets in quick succession but Sushan Bhari Shrestha (20), Satish Bhagat (16) and Hari Chaulagain’s quickfire 27 off 20 balls helped their total cross the 200 landmark. Nischal hit 12 boundaries in his 62-ball knock. Nikhil Olar and Lalith Lal were pick of the Bahrain bowlers with two scalps each.
In reply, Bahrain never looks comfortable as they lost their 2 wickets in first over of Hari Chaulagain. However, Md Faiz Jasnaik (17) and Md Fayyaz (26) consolidated their innings putting on 54 runs for the third wicket. But their dismissal inside three overs meant Bahrain could only muster 121-9 in 40 overs. Aditya Sarkar also chipped in 24 runs. Nischal Pandey again took 5 wickets to wreck the Bahrain inning supported by Hari Chaulagain with 2 wickets and Sharad, Swichan and Rajiv shared 1 wicket each. Hat trick for Nischal Pandey, as he received man of the match award 3rd time in a row with his outstanding performance.

In Group B matches, Singapore defeated Thailand by 175 runs at the Tribhuvan University Stadium and Malaysia beat Saudi Arabia by six wickets at the Pulchowk Engineering College grounds.
Singapore scored 246-5 in 40 overs and Thailand bundled out for 71 runs in 31.4 overs.
Saudi Arabia could only muster 125 runs in 36.2 overs and Malaysia overcame the total losing four wickets in 24.1 overs.

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NEPAL v BAHRAIN at Army School Ground
March 11, 2010

Nepal won the toss and chose to bat

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Sharad Khadka	c M. Shamsalalqamar b L. Lal	26	44	4	0
Nischal Pandey	c wk N. Bolar	74	62	12	0
Dipendra Chand	run out (A. Ikram)	5	13	0	0
Suichan Shah	c L. Lal b H. Shukl	0	1	0	0
Sanam Shrestha	c wk A. Ikram	5	20	0	0
Sushan Shrestha	c A. Ikram b N. Bolar	20	45	1	0
Satish Bhagat	c A. Ikram b L. Lal	16	30	1	0
Hari Chaulagai	not out	27	20	3	0
Jagadish Chand	not out	9	9	1	0
Rajiv Shah	DNB
Bibek Chaudhary	DNB
Extras: w 16, nb 4, b 3, lb 1		24
Total		206 for 7 off 40 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-86 (13.3 overs), 2-108 (18.1 overs), 3-108 (18.2 overs), 4-116 (20.2 overs), 5-138 (25.5 overs), 6-168 (34.4 overs), 7-176 (35.5 overs)

BAHRAIN	O	M	R	W
Aditya Sarkar	5	0	33	0
Mohammad Fayyaz	3	0	33	0
Ali Ikram	8	1	38	1
Harshun Shukl	8	2	19	1
Lalith Lal	8	0	46	2
Nikhil Bolar	6	0	28	2
Mohammed Faiz	2	0	5	0

BAHRAIN		R	B	4s	6s
Nikhil Bolar	lbw H. Chaulagai	0	2	0	0
Mohammed Faiz	c S. Bhagat b N. Pandey	17	60	1	0
Ali Ikram	lbw H. Chaulagai	0	1	0	0
Mohammad Fayyaz	b R. Shah	26	57	2	0
Aditya Balamurali	b N. Pandey	5	10	1	0
Aditya Sarkar	b N. Pandey	24	31	3	1
Harshun Shukl	c S. Khadka b N. Pandey	3	14	0	0
Marwan Shamsalalqamar	b N. Pandey	18	30	2	0
Mohamed Aldoseri	b S. Khadka	5	26	0	0
Lalith Lal	not out	1	9	0	0
Abdulrahman Taj	not out	0	0	0	0
Extras: w 19, b 2, lb 1		22
Total		121 for 9 off 40 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-0 (0.2 overs), 2-0 (0.3 overs), 3-54 (19.3 overs), 4-56 (21 overs), 5-63 (21.4 overs), 6-75 (25.3 overs), 7-107 (32.3 overs), 8-117 (36.5 overs) 9-121 (39 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Hari Chaulagai	4	2	6	2
Jagdish Chand	4	0	17	0
Sushan Shrestha	8	1	24	0
Satish Bhagat	1	0	2	0
Bibek Chaudhary	5	1	8	0
Rajiv Shah	7	0	29	1
Nischal Pandey	8	1	28	5
Suichan Shah	1	0	1	0
Sharad Khadka	1	0	3	1
Dipendra Chand	1	1	0	0

NEPAL WON BY 85 RUNS

Man of the Match: Nischal Pandey (Nepal)

Nepal hammer Kuwait

2010-06-01T11:20:00.001+05:30

(2010-3-09)
Nepal registered huge 101 runs win over Kuwait at the ACC U-16 Elite Cup in Tribhuvan University Stadium cricket ground. Left arm spinner Nischal Pandey grabbed 5 wickets conceding just 15 runs
and scored superior 58 runs help Nepal to reach in significant position after 2nd consecutive win at the tournament. Put into bat first by Kuwait, the home team made a concrete start with openers Sharad Khadka and Nischal putting on 70 runs. Sharad was out on 33, stumped by wicketkeeper Zakaria Ali off Naser Rashi in the 16th over. The host lost Dipendra Chand (12), skipper Switchan Shah (0), Sanam Shrestha (8) and Sushan Bhari Shrestha (1) cheaply but Satish Bhagat strengthen the Nepali innings with an unbeaten 29. Nepal's innings ended when Rajiv Chaudhary (9) was run out attempting three runs in the last ball of the 40th over. Naser Rashid and Ali Zaheer took three wickets each while Abdul Jabar took two for Kuwait.
In second inning, Kuwait made good start of 37 runs in 8.1 overs. Loosing first wicket in 37, Kuwait never recovered and threw their all wickets in 82 runs in 25 overs. Ali Zaheer top scored 27 for Kuwait and Zakaria (20) and Naseer Rashid (12) are other major contributor. In bowling, Bibek Chaudhary got 3 wickets. Sushan Bhari and Rajiv Shah shared 1 wicket each.
Nischal Pandey rewarded man of the match trophy for his brilliant performance.
At the Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidhyalaya grounds, Hong Kong eased to a 113-run win over Bahrain. After, Hong Kong made a massive 211-9 in 40 overs. Bahrain were all out for 98 runs in 27 overs. In Group A match at the Pulchowk Engineering College grounds, Saudi Arabia defeated Thailand by 159 runs. Saudi Arabia were dismissed for 233 in 36.5 overs and restricted Thailand for 74 in 20.4 overs.

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NEPAL v KUWAIT at Tribhuvan University
March 9, 2010

Kuwait won the toss and elected to field

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Sharad Khadka	st wk N. Rashid	33	58	4	0
Nischal Pandey	lbw A. Zaheer	58	82	6	0
Dipendra Chand	c Q. Sadaqat b N. Rashid	12	9	2	0
Suichan Shah	c A. Zaheer b A. Jabbar	0	1	0	0
Sanam Shrestha	c A. Jabbar b A. Zaheer	8	12	0	0
Sushan Shrestha	st wk N. Rashid	1	7	0	0
Satish Bhagat	not out	29	44	3	0
Hari Chaulagai	c Y. Hassan b A. Zaheer	12	10	2	0
Devendra Somare	c Q. Sadaqat b A. Jabbar	0	5	0	0
Bibek Chaudhary	lbw A. Asgher	1	2	0	0
Rajiv Shah	run out	9	11	0	0
Extras: w 15, nb 2, b 2, lb 1		20
Total		183 all out off 40 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-70 (15.1 overs), 2-82 (17.4 overs), 3-92 (18.5 overs), 4-114 (23.4 overs), 5-119 (26.1 overs), 6-137 (31.2 overs), 7-158 (overs), 8-159 (35 overs) 9-163 (36.3 overs), 10-183 (40 overs)

KUWAIT	O	M	R	W
Avinash Mohan	5	0	21	0
Ali Asgher	6	0	30	1
Qasim Sadaqat	4	0	26	0
Shahrukh Mirza	1	0	11	0
Abdul Jabbar	8	1	22	2
Naser Rashid	8	1	42	3
Ali Zaheer	8	0	28	3

KUWAIT		R	B	4s	6s
Zakaria Ali	b N. Pandey	20	31	3	0
Naser Rashid	st wk B. Chaudhary	12	33	1	0
Abdul Jabbar	c wk N. Pandey	0	3	0	0
Ali Zaheer	lbw N. Pandey	27	33	3	0
Ali Asgher	c S. Shah b S. Shrestha	7	26	0	0
Qasim Sadaqat	lbw N. Pandey	0	1	0	0
Avinash Mohan	b N. Pandey	0	2	0	0
Shahrukh Quddus	b R. Shah	7	5	0	1
Ali Majid	b B. Chaudhary	1	6	0	0
Yousef Hassan	not out	0	4	0	0
Sulaiman Alnajar	c D. Somare b B. Chaudhary	0	1	0	0
Extras: w 6, b 1, lb 1		8
Total		82 all out off 25 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-37 (8.2 overs), 2-37 (8.5 overs), 3-39 (12 overs), 4-71 (20.3 overs), 5-71 (20.4 overs), 6-71 (21 overs), 7-79 (23 overs), 8-82 (23.4 overs) 9-82 (24.5 overs), 10-82 (25 overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Hari Chaulagai	3	0	20	0
Devendra Somare	3	0	12	0
Bibek Chaudhary	7	3	16	3
Nischal Pandey	8	3	15	5
Rajiv Shah	2	0	15	1
Sushan Shrestha	2	0	2	1

NEPAL WON BY 101 RUNS

Man of the Match: Nischal Pandey (Nepal)

Nepal dominates Hong Kong in opener

2010-06-01T11:19:00.005+05:30

(2010-3-08)

Nepali U-16 team begins the ACC U-16 Elite Cup cricket tournament in style with six wickets win over Hong Kong at Tribhuvan University Ground Kirtipur.

After winning the toss, Hong Kong chooses the bat and scored 84-4 by the 30th over before losing their remaining six wickets for just four runs. Thanks to Nischal Pandey’s figure of 6.4-3-6-4 supported by Sushan Bhari 8-3-22-3 for Hong Kong collapse. Nischal and Sushan accounted for the last five wickets while No 10 batsman Ajaz Khan was run out to end the Hong Kong innings. For Hong Kong, Skipper Miten Rajesh Khatri top scored with 27 runs and opener Anshuman Singh chipped in 18. Others fail to mark double figure.

In reply, after loosing the opener Nishcal Pandey for four Nepali inning consolidate by other opener Sharad Khadka and Dipendra Chand. Khadka scored 14 and Chand scored 38 not out to win comprehensively in 18.3 overs. Skipper Swichan Shah (four) and Sanam Shrestha (nine) are other contrubutor. Nischal Pandey declared man of the match later.

Meanwhile, Bahrain beat Kuwait by seven wickets and Singapore defeated Malaysia by 53 runs in the other matches of the day. At the Pulchowk Engineering grounds, Kuwait were bowled out for 111 runs in 20.4 overs and Bahrain overcame the total losing three wickets in 21 overs. At the Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidhyalaya grounds, Singapore scored a mammoth 194-9 in 40 overs and restricted Malaysia for 141 runs in 35.2 overs.

Full scoreboard

NEPAL v HONG KONG at Tribhuvan University
March 8, 2010

Hong Kong won the toss and chose to bat

HONG KONG		R	B	4s	6s
Anshuman Rath	st wk B. Chaudhary	18	54	2	0
Akhil Venkataraghavan	lbw H. Chaulagai	4	13	0	0
Kinchit Shah	st wk S. Shrestha	8	21	1	0
Miten Khatri	lbw N. Pandey	27	57	2	1
Amandeep Singh	c D. Somare b N. Pandey	8	22	1	0
Simandeep Singh	st wk S. Shrestha	7	13	1	0
Toby Abernethy	b N. Pandey	0	2	0	0
Daljeet Singh	c N. Pandey b S. Shrestha	1	8	0	0
Furqan Tahir	lbw N. Pandey	2	23	0	0
Ajaz Khan	run out (D. Somare)	0	0	0	0
Bilal Khan	not out	0	1	0	0
Extras: w 10, b 1, lb 2		13
Total		88 all out off 35.4 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-12 (4.3 overs), 2-38 (13.3 overs), 3-41 (10.2 overs), 4-56 (23.2 overs), 5-84 (29.3 overs), 6-84 (29.5 overs), 7-86 (30.4 overs), 8-87 (33 overs) 9-88 (34.5 overs), 10-88 (35.4overs)

NEPAL	O	M	R	W
Hari Chaulagai	5	2	11	1
Devendra Somare	6	1	18	0
Sharad Khadka	1	0	4	0
Bibek Chaudhary	6	1	7	1
Sushan Shrestha	8	3	22	3
Nischal Pandey	6.4	3	6	4
Rajiv Shah	3	1	17	0

NEPAL		R	B	4s	6s
Sharad Khadka	c D. Singh b K. Shah	14	14	2	0
Nischal Pandey	c wk S. Singh	4	7	1	0
Dipendra Chand	not out	38	47	5	0
Suichan Shah	c A. Singh b K. Shah	4	9	0	0
Sanam Shrestha	c + b K. Shah	9	23	1	0
Sushan Shrestha	not out	3	14	0	0
Devendra Somare	DNB
Satish Bhagat	DNB
Bibek Chaudhary	DNB
Rajiv Shah	DNB
Hari Chaulagai	DNB
Extras: w 12, nb 2, b 1, lb 1		14
Total		89 for 4 off 18.3 overs

Fall of wickets:
1-9 (1.5 overs), 2-40 (6 overs), 3-48 (8 overs), 4-67 (13.2 overs)

HONG KONG	O	M	R	W
Toby Abernethy	3	0	22	0
Simandeep Singh	2	0	14	1
Kinchit Shah	7	1	26	3
Amandeep Singh	1	0	5	0
Miten Khatri	5	1	19	0
Akhil Venkataraghavan	0.3	0	1	0

NEPAL WON BY SIX WICKETS

Man of the Match: Nischal Pandey (Nepal)

U-16 team declared

2010-06-01T11:19:00.003+05:30

(2010-3-03

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced a 14-member squad for the ACC U-16 Elite Cup scheduled here for March 8-16. The National Selection Committee headed by Arun Kumar Aryal picked up the squad from the players who were under closed camp training. Swichan Shah is the captain and Nischal Pandey to his deputy. Others in the team include Dipendra Chand, Jagadish Chand (I), Bibek Chaudhary, Hari Chaulagain, Sharad Khadka, Rajiv Kumar Shah, Devendra Somare, Satish Bhagat, Mayananda Chaudhary, Sanam Shrestha, Sushan Bhari Shrestha and Roshan Khatri.

Four players Rishav Rajbhandari, Jagadish Chand (II), Ram Krishna Jaiswal and Prajwol Katuwal were named as reserves.
ACC U-16 Elite Cup has been rescheduled after two teams pulled out for failing to meet the least provisions of the tournament. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar withdrew from the 10-team event after they failed to find three nationals in their team. As per the new Asian Cricket Council (ACC) rules, the teams must field at least three true nationals.

Nepal crowned Division V champion

2010-06-01T11:19:00.001+05:30

(2010-2-27)
Left arm spinner Rahul B.K. grab seven wickets help to Nepal clinch the first ever championship trophy at the senior level here at the Tribhuvan University Stadium, Kirtipur.

Nepal’s victory was set up by Rahul’s excellent second spell that yielded all seven wickets for the spinner. Right-arm medium pacer Binod Das, back in the squad after being dropped against the same side on previous game, gave Nepal the breakthrough, dismissing Lennox Cush (10) in the fourth over. But Orlando Baker (49) and skipper Steve Massiah put on 81 run second wicket stand to strengthen their innings. The USA were looking set for a huge total at 141-2 by the 35.5 overs after Baker was run out by a quick throw from Gyanendra Malla. Second spell of Rahul collapses the USA inning and limited to 172 all out. Nepali team seems sharp in field and grabs all the catches.

In second inning, Newly found combination of opener as Anil Mandal and Mahesh Chhetri laid the foundation as they gave solid 85 runs stand for first wicket. Shakti Gauchan scored 23 runs and Sharad Vesawkar 11 runs. Middle order seems bit shaky but Gyanedra Malla (28 not out) and Mehboob Alam (17 not out) guided the team safely home. Alam struck a six and a four in the 47th over bowl by captain of USA and end match in style and provided Nepal to grab first ever-major trophy.

Meanwhile, Bahrain beat Singapore by three wickets in the third place playoff at the Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidhyalaya grounds and Jersey defeated Fiji by five wickets in the fifth place playoff at the Pulchowk Engineering College grounds.

Nepal lost but qualify for Division IV

2010-06-01T11:18:00.004+05:30

(2010-2-25)

Last match of the league and it’s result created tense in the dressing room of Nepal, USA and Singapore after Nepal lost with USA and the game interrupted by crowd. Singapore won the match against the Jersey quite comprehensively and on the way for qualify for Division 4 but the fortune, normally not in favor for Nepal is turn around Nepal’s favor and Nepali team qualify for Division IV along with USA, who beat Nepal by 5 wickets on D/L method in the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division-V at TU Ground, Kirtipur.

Batting first, Nepal able to score mere 162/9 in their allotted 50 overs. Thanks to vice captain Gyanendra Malla and Mehboob Alam for their patient 52 and 38 runs respectively. Other major contributor are Sharad Vesawkar(15), Basanta Regmi and Paras Khadka 12 runs each. For USA, Right-arm medium pacer Kevin Darlington was the peak of the USA bowlers with 3-23 off 10 overs. Orlando Baker got 2 and Suja and Lenox Cush shared 1 wicket apiece. USA overcame the revised target of 157 runs losing five wickets in 33.3 overs. Sushil Nadkarmi scored 57 not out and Steve Massiah scored 42 runs to took their team to comfortable victory.

Nepal almost out of the tournament but the interfere in the game yielded positive run rate for Nepal and Nepal stand above the Singapore in point tally with 0.004 net run rate. Nepal will play final against USA in same venue.

Sharad’s century helps Nepal to victory

2010-06-01T11:18:00.002+05:30

(2010-2-24)

Nepal remained the only unbeaten team in the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division-V after a brilliant century by Sharad Vesawkar powered the hosts to a 193-run victory over Fiji at the match at Tribhuvan University Stadium, Kirtipur.
Batting first, Nepal scored 267-7 and restricted Fiji for 74-9 in 26.4 overs. One batsman of Fiji can’t bat due to his injury. Another failure of opener Dipendra Chaudhary and Mehboob Alam followed by Shakti Gauchan’s duck made early trouble in a wobbly position of 35-3 at the end of 10th over. Then the skipper Paras Khadka and Sharad start the build the concrete and record setting partnership of 130 runs to take Nepal in a out of harm's way position. Nepal’s previous best partnership is 126 runs between Sharad Vesawkar and Gyanendra Malla at the ACC Trophy against Qatar in 2008.
Sharad hits two huge sixes and eight four to score105 not out in his 134 balls knock. Other major contributor are Basanta Regmi, Gyanendra Malla, Mehboob Alam and Mahesh Chhetri scored 27, 10, 10 and 8 not out respectively. For Fiji, Kida and Tavo took 3 wickets each.
Chasing the mammoth total, Fiji never looks good as their first wickets fell at 17 runs in board. Basanta Regmi returns with brilliant figure of 5.4-2-11-4. Shakti Gauchan took 2 wickets and Binod Das and Alam took 1 wicket apiece.

At the Pulchowk Engineering grounds, Singapore scored 245-9 and dismissed the USA for 146 runs in 37.5 overs. Contributions from top order batsmen backed up by tight bowling helped Singapore defeat a formidable USA team by 99 runs. Narender Reddy (51) scored a half-century while, Pramodh Raja (45), Chetan Suryawanshi (34), Buddhika Mendis (27) and Anish Param (24) contributed valuable runs for Singapore. Kevin Darlington took four and Lennox Cush grabbed two wickets for the USA.
Only Steve Massiah (50) scored significantly in the USA run chase as the dangermen Cush (14) and R Marshall (13) were dismissed cheaply. Jackie Manoj-Kumar claimed four while Saad Janjua and Reddy grabbed two wickets each for Singapore.
Meanwhile, Qamar Saeed scored 50 and took six wickets to guide Bahrain to a 27-run win over Jersey.
Held at the Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidhyalaya grounds in Bhaktapur, Bahrain scored 264-7 thanks to lower order batsmen Saeed (50), Azeem ul Haq (48) and Tahir Dar (44). In reply, Jersey were all out for 237 runs in 46.5 overs. Skipper Ryan Driver made 80 and Dean Morrison 49. Saeed returned with the figures of 6-33 in 9.5 overs.

Bahrain surrender against Home team

2010-06-01T11:18:00.000+05:30

(2010-2-23)

Skipper Paras Khadka batted brilliantly to defeat Bahrain by 8 wickets at the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division-V match here at the Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidhyalaya (BSAM) grounds, Bhaktapur, Nepal.

Bahrain only gathers 114 runs in 42.5 overs and Nepal surpassed it on 22.5 overs. Nepali spinner shines again and shared 9 wickets between them to trouble Bahrain at their 3rd win in a row. Basanta Regmi took 4 wickets and Sanjam Regmi got 3 and Rahul BK claimed 2 wickets. Pacer Mehboob Alam registers one wicket in his name. For Bahrain, Shahzad Ahmed scored 27 runs. Majid, Saeed, Haq and Hanif are other marks the double figure. Nepal conceded only 6 extra during the bowling.

Shakti Gauchan remained unbeaten in 27 runs is other major contributor after skipper’s half century. The pair added 108 runs for Nepal. Skipper Paras Khadka declared Man of the Match for his brilliant batting.

Nepal stun Singapore

2010-06-01T11:17:00.001+05:30

(Date:- 2010-2-21)

Defending modest total of 180 runs, Nepali spinner restricted Sigapore for mere 164 runs and win by 16 runs at the Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division-V match at the Pulchowk Engineering grounds in Nepal. Batting first, Nepali inning boosted by Man of the Match and No 7 allrounder Basanta Regmi’s fine half century and able to score respectable total. Sharad Vesawkar, Shakti Gauchan and Paras Khadka are other major contributor as they score 32, 24 and 18 respectively. For Singapore, Mulewa Dharmichand took 3 wickets and Saad Janjua grab two. Manoj Kumar and Buddhika Mendis share one wicket apiece.

In process of second successive win, Nepali bowler restricted Singapore in 47.5 overs. Nepali spinner shares 9 wickets between them and got one wicket as runout. Sanjam was the pick of Nepali bowler took 4 wickets and Basanta Regmi got 2. Shakti Gauchan, Rahul BK and skipper Paras Khadka, who normally bowls medium pace, switched to off-spin, register one wicket in their name.

Singapore coach Marvan Atapattu partly blamed the wicket for his side's defeat. His counterpart Roy Luke Dias, also a former Sri Lankan international, praised the way his boys played. Nepal will meet Bahrain in next match.

Nepal begin tournament with victory

2010-02-20T18:39:00.001+05:30

Host Nepal inspired by captain Paras Khadka’s brilliant 69 in 66 balls knock win over Jersey by 6 wickets at the ICC World Cricket League Division V in Birendra Sainik Maha Vidyalaya Cricket Ground, Bhaktapur, Nepal. Batting first Jersey scored 174 all out in 44.5 overs. Opener Dean Morrison top scored 62 of 112 and 38 runs scored by SJ de la Haye. For Nepal, Shakti Gauchan took 2 wickets in 3.5 overs conceding 12 runs and Sanjam Regmi got 10-0-41-2 figure. Basanta Regmi, Mehboob Alam, Binod Das and Rahul B.K. shares one wicket each and two Jersey players face run out.

In second inning, Nepali opener troubled with some good attacking bowling from Jersey’s opening bowling pair and throw quick 2 wickets in 10.3 overs, when only 29 runs in board. No 3 batsmen Shakti Gauchan and Man of the match and captain Paras Khadka then start to steady their inning with slow run rate. After growing some handy partnership captain Paras and Shakti played handsome strokes around the ground and start getting momentum. The paird added 68 runs. After fall of Shakti Gauchan wicket, smart batsmen Sharad Vesawkar start the run chase along with captain. Vesawkar remained not out till the chase and made brilliant 33 along with six in the last ball and surpass the traget. Paras Khadka falls in 162 runs in board and then Gyanendra Malla and Vesawkar led the victory safely in 38 overs.

In another matches USA go down over Fiji by 285 runs in Lalitpur. Fiji won the toss and put USA to bat and post 353 for 8. Steve Massiah's 74 was the top score but the innings got its final thrust from Rashard Marshall, who smashed 61 off 28 balls with eight fours and four sixes. Timroy Allen also made 32 off 17 balls. Josefa Dabea took four wickets for Fiji conceded 84 in 8 overs. At second inning Fiji were always going to struggle to chase in a huge target and collapsing for 68 in 28 overs. Dabea made 13, and was the only batsman to get into double figures. Kevin Darlington, with 3 for 9 in six overs, and Imran Awan, who took 3 for 16, were USA's best bowlers.

Bahrain lost with Singapore by 126 runs at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur, Nepal. Electing to bat first, Singapore were given an encouraging start by openers Buddika Mendis and Chetan Suryawanshi. The pair added 95. However, Bahrain then hit back, courtesy Adil Hanif, Tahir Dar and Zafar Zaheer who grabbed seven wickets between them to limit Singapore to a chaseable 224 for 8. But their batsmen simply failed to measure up to Singapore's determined bowling display, as Anish Param and Jackie Manoj-Kumar, both left-arm spinners, grabbed three wickets each to skittle out Bahrain for 98.

Nepal will face Singapore on February 21 at Engineering cricket ground at Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal. Likewise Jersey will face Fiji at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur, Nepal and Bahrain will compete with USA at Engineering Campus Ground, Lalitpur, Nepal.

ICC World Cup 2015 way for Nepal

2010-02-20T18:37:00.001+05:30

It's all about the master-blaster Nepalese team to ooze out its hidden potentials in the ground of cricket battle field. Now it’s the time to exaggerate its mental, physical and emotional aptitude. It’s time to rectify the previous miss steps and amplify its outstanding performance in this field of polite game and recognize it as a majestic personality. Wake up and Stand up, “Your attitude determines your altitude”.

In Nepali cricket, every time Nepal have to face obstacle in their progress in frame of either 3 runs lost against Fiji in Division 2 or lost to Afghanistan at ICC World Cricket League Division 5 in last year. Where Nepal won all five matches and lost only one. Nepali team gets moral boosting achievement as 10 wicket record of Mehboob Alam against Mozambique. They seem very comfortable till there match against Afghanistan. One lost cost them 4 years back from World Cup and it’s become dearer as well. But this time story is different. The circumstances are in the favor of Nepal. As Nepal play on own land and now the team are very comfortable. Combination of Youth, Experience and Senior make great combination in team. Nepali players are desperate to play World Cup and should be possessive and determine. Huge Nepali crowd will cheer the game and all the support from crowd makes them morale boosting formula.

Nepal, United State of America (USA), Fiji, Jersey along with other two team promoted from Division-6 will feature in this tourney. Yet this is a precious opportunity to Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) for proving itself and showing its ability to organized ICC's tournament in this Lord Buddha's country. And Nepal is going to organize ICC World Cricket League Division-5 in February 2010. This is the first time that Nepal is going to organize ICC's event after completing all ACC level tournament quiet successfully. Nepal is also a participant of this event. Nepali cricket coach Roy Luke Dias is confident that the Nepali will benefit from this event. Being a host, Nepali can show their great environment suitability for cricket to international arena. He thinks this a golden opportunity to stand a great cricket destination.

It is a matter of proud to acknowledge in front of such a great organization like ICC that Nepal is capable to host any type of event in this peaceful nation. But it is not just an opportunity it is a challenge also. Let see CAN’s strategy toward this task.
This time Nepal will face lots of familiar team like USA, Fiji, and Jersey and so on. Nepal defeated USA in last year's division-5 league and Jersey not known as a strong team in International Cricket. Fiji is the headache for the team and Nepal will definitely take revenge, the lost in selection tournament held on 2007. But Nepal has to be careful especially against these 3 teams. USA won the ICC Americas Cup ahead of Bermuda and Canada and they are re-structuring their cricket team and also planning to organize American Cricket League (ACL). But if Nepal will perform with their actual level and ability there is no big task for them. Only they should be “able to make hey when the sunshine”. It looks like hard to reach World Cup 2015 through this long way but this is cricket buddy. Everything can happen in this entertaining game. Nepal has to learn from Afghanistan who reaches till division 2 and get ODI status just one step short for World Cup. So it's possible to reach World Cup, but this will not come in Nepali hand easily. Nepal has to prepare for this campaign from today. In bowling, Nepal has always been strong but the major problem is batting. For batting Nepal have to come up with huge domestic cricket leagues. Not just one ODI league but Twenty20 and Two Days league should also be revived for this tournament. It provides player a great platform to show and shine their ability. Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) team manager Team Lerwill said that,"You don’t need to go out and play with other teams for that, the domestic cricket is the main platform to correct your batting". Much more domestic cricket means lots of matches which also help Nepali cricketers maintain their fitness. Mind it, Former Pakistani International and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Academy coach Ijaz Ahmed also mention that Nepali players lack fitness.

This is a last opportunity to reach World Cup 2015 for Nepal. If Nepal fails to capture this opportunity Nepal will go behind some about 20 years back in cricket. It's hard to have this type of strong situation for Nepal. Current player in Nepali squad will not be part for another world cup battle. This is a serious & critical time. Nepal has to win this division-5 tournament and follow with division 4, division 3 and 2 also. It is possible, if Nepali team recognize them well they can do. It's hard but not impossible. Nepali team has to inoculate the syringe of enthusiasm in their blood stream. All about the matter to be concerned is the integrative and co-operative approach among the team members, “it’s gettable”.

Nepal declared 18 members squad for division 5

2010-01-02T12:45:00.001+05:30

(December 22, 2009)
Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announces 18 members squad for closed-camp training. Nepal will participate in ICC World Cricket League Division 5 held in Kathmandu Nepal. In this tournament Nepal along with Fiji, USA, Singapore, Bahrain and Jersey will participate in this way to ICC World Cup Cricket 2015.

Paras Khadka remain captain and Gyanendra to his deputy. Other players are, Binod Bhandari, Naresh Budhaire, Subash Khakurel, Binod Das, Paresh Lohani, Dhirendra Chand, Anil Mandal, Dipendra Chaudhary, Mehboob Alam, Rahul BK, Shakti Gauchan, Mahesh Chhetri, Basanta Regmi, Sanjam Regmi, Amrit Bhattarai, Prithu Baskota. Regular player Sharad Vesawkar has been dropped for this tournament because of his injury and poor performance in ACC Twenty 20 Cup 2009 in UAE.

The league started on February 22, 2010.

Opportunity for Nepal

2010-01-02T12:22:00.000+05:30

(December 7, 2010)
This is the first time, that cricket included at South Asian Games
(SAG) held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from January 29 to February 8,
2010. Nepal along with Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,
Afghanistan, Maldives and Bhutan will participate in this regional
olympic. The team under 21 years will participate and it will be at
Twenty-20 format.

Nepal named 18 members squad for this tournament. Gyanendra
Malla has been selected for captain and other players are include
Binod handari, Naresh Budhaire, Chandra Sawad, Amrit
Bhattarai, Rupesh Shrivastav, Bhuwan Karki, Amit Shrestha,
Rom Shrestha, Sagar Pun, Anil Mandal, Akash Gupta, Pradeep
Airee, Anupam Singh, Pradeep Sapkota, Subash Khakurel,
Lokendra Chand and U-17 team's captain Prithu Baskota.

Nepal is the giant killer in age group cricket. This is a precious
opportunity for Nepal to retain its name in Test Playing nation. This
is the first time that Nepal not qualifies for ICC U-19 World Cup
Cricket after qualifying four 5 times in previous editions.

Nepal dominates Singapore

2010-01-02T12:01:00.000+05:30

(November 29)
After fail to qualify for semi final, Nepal and Singapore fought in the 5th place play-off match and Nepal won the battle by 9 wickets. Batting first, Singapore scored mere 89 runs in 19.4 overs. SK Sansua hit 25 rns and CR Kumarage and Pramodh Raza contributed 18 and 13 runs respectively. Binod Das of Nepal grab 3 wickets conceded just 21 runs in 3.4 overs. Sanjam also got 3 wickets and Shakti Gauchan and Basanta Regmi shared one wicket each.

In reply, Dipendra Chaudhary and Naresh Budhaire shared unbeaten 77 runs of partnership to guide Nepal to huge victory over ICC World Cricket League Division 6 winner Singapore. Dipendra scored 49 of 40 balls and Naresh contributed 32 in 39 balls. Only wicket fell for Nepal was Mehboob Alam in, who scored just 2 runs. Nepal won the match in just 14.2 overs.

Finally Nepal wins with batting

2009-12-24T20:59:00.000+05:30

First time in ACC Twenty20 Cup 2009 cricket tournament, Nepal beat the opposition with their batting skills. Bahrain scored 157/8 in their alloted 20 overs and Nepal overcame the target and score 159 in 18 overs in loss of 3 wickets. For Nepal, Opener Dipendra Chaudhary scored 47 runs, Binod Bhandari 11 runs and vice captain Gyanendra Malla and Captain Paras Khadka shared unbeaten 94 runs stand and scored 48 and 47 runs respectively. Sameer got 2 wickets and Hatal got 1 wicket for Bahrain. In first inning Bahrain's batsmen firing against Nepali bowler and hits balls all over the ground. H Naseer scored highest 53 runs and I Sajjad 44 runs. A Shahzad score 29 not out for Bahrain. In Bowling, Binod Das grab 3 wickets and Mehboob Alam pick 2 and Basanta Regmi and Paras Khadka shared 1 wicket each.

Despite the huge margin of win, Nepal fail to make semi final way as Kuwait is in front Nepal with their good run rate. This was really a painful moment for Nepali cricket as Nepal fail to advance on second level in both tournament starting from 2007.

November 28

Nepal wins against Qatar

2009-12-24T20:40:00.000+05:30

Nepali cricket team win by 6 wickets over Qatar at their ACC Twenty20 Cup 2009 at Sharjah, UAE. Batting first, Qatar manages to score 96 runs in 19 overs and threw all their wickets. I Hussain score 32 runs and Tamoor Sajjad scored 19 runs for Qatar and other batsmen fail to make any impression with their batting. For Nepal, spinners shared 8 wickets of 9 wickets pick by bowler and one got run out. Basanta Regmi and Shakti Gauchan shared 3 wickets each and Sanjam Regmi got 2 wickets. In second inning Nepal find difficulty to achieve the below 100 runs of target and sacrifice their top four wickets and took 18 overs. Vice captain Gyanendra Malla scored not out 39, opener Dipendra Chaudhary scored 28 runs and Basanta Regmi also scored 5 not out for Nepal. In bowling A Khan took two wickets and S Badshah find 1 wicket in his 4 overs of spell.
Because of low run rate Nepal's ray of hope to reach semi final is become thin. All depends on fortune, as Nepal has to play still one more game against Baharain.

November 26

Nepal go down with Oman

2009-12-23T20:32:00.000+05:30

(Date:- November 24)
Nepal suffered with the first ever loss against Oman by 12 runs in the ACC Twenty20 Cup in Sharjah UAE. Batting first, Oman only able to gather 112-9 in their allotted 20 overs. Ghazanfar Iqbal scored highest 37 runs for Oman. Dipendra Chaudhary is the peak of Nepali bowler taking 3 Omani wickets and Shakti Gauchan got 2 and Binod Das and Basanta Regmi picked 1 wicket each. Nepali bowler restricted good batting line up of Oman with their dicipline bowling attack. But Nepal fail to overcame the target and packed for mere 100 runs in 19 overs. Basanta Regmi is top scorer for Nepal, who hit 26 runs and other major contributor are Binod Das and Gyanendra Malla 21 and 20 runs respectively. Other players fail to reach double figure. In bowling for Oman Hemin Desai grab 3 wickets and 2 wickets each for Awal Khan and Khalid Rasheed. This was a first defeat with Oman in any format of cricket of Nepal and second in tournament. Nepal already lost with Malaysia in their inaugural match.

Nepal comebacks with nail biting finish

2009-11-23T18:50:00.000+05:30

Nepal defeated Kuwait in bowl out 3-2 in the second match for Nepal in ACC Twenty20 Cup 2009 cricket tournament in Abu Dhabi. In second inning Nepal manages the same score 123 and tie the match. Nepal defeated Kuwait in bowl out and alive the hope to qualify for semi-final. In first inning, Kuwait scored 123 all out in 19.1 overs after winning the toss. Nepal shaky batting order finally produces at least same runs against good team Kuwait. Part time bowler Dipendra Chaudhary is the pick of Nepali bowler took 4-11 in just 3 overs. Basanta Regmi took 2 and Sanjam Regmi, Mehboob Alam and Binod Das took one wicket each.

Other matches, Oman won the match by 5 wickets against Qatar. Qatar score 178-8 in 20 overs and Oman overcame the target in 18.3 overs for just sacrificing 5 wickets.
Afghanistan defeated Singapore by 8 wickets. Singapore scored 96 runs in 20 overs and Afghanistan quickly achieves their target in 12.4 overs.
UAE defeated Hong Kong by 27 runs. UAE scored 137-9 runs in their 20 overs and Hong Kong team not able to complete their target and scored 110-9 in full 20 overs.
China lost to Saudi Arabia. Saudi score 155-7 in 20 overs and China only gather 100-7 in alloted 20 overs in target chasing process.
Malaysia won by huge margin of 92 runs against Bahrain. Malaysia scored 218-5 in 20 overs and Bahrain only scored 126 runs in 20 overs.

Nepal lost with Malaysia

2009-11-22T18:25:00.000+05:30

First time in any format or age level of cricket, Nepal dominated by Malaysia by 6 wickets in 17.4 over. Batting first, highly expected Nepali team only gather 112 runs for 6 in allotted 20 over. One time, Nepal able to score 50-1 in seven over, But Nepal fail to make any kind of impression as strong team in ACC T20 Tournament 2009, at UAE. Mehboob Alam contributed highest 31 runs and Gyanendra Malla scored 20 runs. Paresh Lohani scored 19 runs for team. In second inning despite losing early wicket, Malaysia looks solid with beginning and finish with convincing margin. Nepal will face Kuwait in second match on November 23.

In other matches, Saudi Arabia won by 1 wicket against Hong Kong.Hong Kong scored 132-6 in their 20 over. Saudi overcome the target in 19.5 over. Another Group B match Kuwait register won against Qatar by 65 runs. Kuwait scored 195-5 in 20 overs and Qatar only able to score 130 runs in 17.5 overs.
Afghanistan defeated China by huge margin of 9 wickets. China made 36 all out in 17 over and Afghanistan overcome the target in 4 over, and lost just 1 wicket during the winning process.
Likewise, Oman defeated Bahrain by 108 runs. Batting first, Oman scored huge 219 runs in lost of 5 wickets and took seven wickets of Bahrain conceded just 111 runs in 20 over.
Singapore lost to United Arab Emirates (UAE) by 62 runs. UAE also scored 219 for 5, same as Oman and Singapore unable to complete the target and throw all wickets only for 157 runs.

Nepali team flies for UAE

2009-11-20T11:55:00.000+05:30

Nepali cricket team today departure for United Arab Emirates (UAE) to participate ACC Twenty 20 Cup 2009 slated for November 22-30, 2009 from Delhi. After practice match with strong side Delhi District Cricket Association (DDCA) and Lal Bahadur Shastri Cricket Club (LBSCC) two matches each, Nepal produce 2-2 results. Nepal defeated by DDCA in both matches and Nepal won the two out of two against LBSCC.

Nepali team under close camp from 2 months are well balanced than ever. In batting, there is still some problem and hope for some improvisation but bowling and fielding is key for Nepali success in this tournament. Nepal, a great country for cricket is known as strong side in 50-over match and will come strongly in this shorter version of game.

Match Schedule:

Match times: 9.30 AM – 12.30 PM and 1.30 PM – 4.30 PM
(GMT 0530 – 0830 and GMT 0930 – 1230)

November 22
Nepal v Malaysia at Sharjah Cricket Stadium

November 23
Nepal v Kuwait at Sheikh Zayed

November 24
Nepal v Oman at Sharjah C.S.

November 26
Nepal v Qatar at Sharjah C.S.

November 27
Nepal v Bahrain at Al Dhaid

November 29
Semi-Final 1 (A1 v B2) at Sharjah C.S.
Semi-Final 2 (A2 v B1) at Al Dhaid

November 30
FINAL (Winner SF1 v Winner SF2) at Sheikh Zayed

Nepali team
Paras Khadka (Captain), Gyanendra Malla (Vice-captain), Dipendra Chaudhary, Paresh Lohani, Naresh Budhayer, Binod Bhandari, Sharad Vesawkar, Shakti Gauchan, Sanjam Regmi, Binod Das, Mehboob Alam, Basanta Regmi, Amrit Bhattarai and Mahesh Chhetri.

Alternative players
Ajay Rajbanshi, Chandra Saud and Rahul B.K.

Coach :- Roay Luke Dias

Assistant Coach:- Manjur Alam Khan

Team Manager:- Naresh Kumar Shrestha

18 probable representative selected by CAN

2009-10-27T12:01:00.001+05:30

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announce 18 probable cricketers selected for upcoming ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup Cricket tournament held in United Arab Emirates (UAE). CAN selected players on the basis of their performance in close camp called earlier. The players selected are Sharad Vesawkar, Gyanendra Malla, Binod Das, Paras Khadka, Paresh Lohani, Basanta Regmi, Ajay Rajbanshi, Amrit Bhattarai, Rajkumar Pradhan, Naresh Budhayer, Chandra Saud, Binod Bhandari, Sanjam Regmi, Dipendra Chaudhary, Mehboob Alam, Rahul BK, Mahesh Chhetry and Shakti Gauchan.

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) will pick only 14 players for the tournament, it means four other players cut in final selection. Nepali team scheduled to play some practice matches in India before leaving United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Nepal take this tournament as a preparation for upcoming ICC World Cricket League Division-5 held in Nepal. Hope Nepal will perform with their standard in this tournament. Best of Luck.............

Nepal gets opportunity to host ACC tournament

2009-09-20T13:06:00.000+05:30

After scrapping Under-15 and Under-17 for age cause by Asian Cricket Council (ACC). The new structure of the age level tournament in frame of Under-16 designed and Nepal will host the inaugural edition of ACC Under-16 Elite Cup Cricket Tournament in Kathmandu March 8-18, 2010. Nepal, Afghanistan, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, Thailand and UAE will participate in the tournament.
The U-16 event will be the second international tournament to be hosted by Nepal in two months. Nepal will also host the ICC World Cricket League Division-V Tournament in February. Nepal has already hosted the ACC Trophy (1998), ACC U-19 Tournament (2001, 2005), ACC U-15 Elite Cup (2007) and ACC Elite Cup (2008) in the past. This is not just opportunity, it’s a challenge also and Nepal will leave no stone unturned for succession of this tournament.

Two team promoted in Division-5

2009-09-05T15:06:00.000+05:30

Singapore and Bahrain promoted for division-5 after completing first and second in the point tally of matches between 6 nations in their ICC World Cricket League Division-6 cricket tournament held in Singapore. Now the two team promoted, will compete in division-5 along with host Nepal, USA, Fiji and Jersey in Kathmandu, Nepal on February 2010. Singapore won the division-6 title to defeat Bahrain in their final match by 68 runs. Malaysian hope to reach final ruin by Singapore, who defeated Malaysia by 4 wickets and provide chance to Bahrain to compete in Final, which team has been promoted from division-7.

Points Table
Teams      Mat Won Lost    Tied    N/R    Pts Net RR
Singapore   5       5 0    0       0   10     +1.045
Bahrain        5       3       2        0    0        6 +0.909
Malaysia 5        3    2    0    0    6 +0.467
Guernsey      5    2    3    0 0 4 -0.326
Botswana      5        1      4    0 0       2     -0.250
Norway 5    1    4    0 0 2 -1.746

Nepali in Group B

2009-08-30T11:31:00.000+05:30

Nepal will contest against Malaysia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Baharain in Group B matches of the 2nd ACC Twenty20 Cup Elite Cricket in November at United Arab Emirates (UAE). In Group A, Afghanistan, China, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, UAE and Hong Kong will contest with each other and top two team will advance for semi final. Oman was the joint winner with Afghanistan in last year's inaugural tournament.

The game was originally scheduled for November 4-13 but the ACC meeting 28 August pushed back the dates to 22-30 November. Nepal will hope for better performance to erase last year's bitter experience where Nepal lost with Qatar and Afghanistan and able to beat Malaysia and joint winner Oman in their group match and fail to qualify for semi final in Kuwait.

New power house arise in International Cricket

2009-08-20T19:22:00.001+05:30

Bangladesh, a youngest test nation in International Cricket become power house as they beat West Indies at their home 2-0 in test series and 3-0 in ODI series and defeated Zimbabwe 4-1 in their high scoring One Day International (ODI) cricket series.

The entire win motivated by inspirational innings by captain Sakib Al Hasan, who wasa declare man of the series twice. During their series the Bangali player shows their desperation toward win and got it.

Bangali camp is now the happiest ever. People are celebrating their victory. It’s really great for Bangladesh and International Cricket that Bangladesh emerge as power house. Hope, Bangladesh never looks back after their great win in a row against strongest team in International Cricket.

23 players are short listed for upcoming tournament

2009-08-20T17:30:00.000+05:30

National Selection committee of Nepal chooses the probable for upcoming ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup Cricket tournament held in November 4th to 13th in United Arab Erimates (UAE). The players are Paresh Lohani, Dipendra Chaudhary, Shakti Gauchan, Gyanendra Malla, Sharad Vesawkar, Amirt Bhattarai, Mahesh Chettri, Biond Das, Paras Khadka, Sanjam Regmi, Anil Mandal, Anupam Singh, Rahuk BK, Binond Bhandari, Chandra Saud, Pramod Basnet, Naresh Budhayer, Rajkumar Pradhan, Pushpa Thapa, Ajay Rajbanshi, Basanta Regmi, Prem Budal and Mehboob Alam. Players are selected in basis of their performance in National Twenty20 cricket league held in June 2009.

Nepal will desperate to win this tournament as Nepal eye this tournament is succession ladder for upcoming ICC World Cricket League Division 5 held in Kathmandu, Nepal.

ICC World Cricket League Division 5, the way for Nepali Cricket to reach ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

2009-08-16T21:33:00.000+05:30

विश्वकप २०१५ को लक्ष्ययात्रामा नेपाली क्रिकेट

आईसीसी वर्ल्ड क्रिकेट लिग डिभिजन फाइभ आयोजना गरेर आफ्नो अन्तर्रर्ााट्रय छविलाई अझै माथि पुराउने धुनमा रहेको नेपाल क्रिकेट संघले यसपटक पनि विगतमा सम्पन्न गरिएको आयोजनाहरुमा जस्तै सफलता प्राप्त गर्ने कुरामा विश्वस्त रहन सकिन्छ । नेपालले हालसम्म आयोजना गरेको प्रतियोगिता प्रायः सबै सफल रहेको छ भने यस पटकको ठुलो परियोजना सफल पार्न क्यान भरसक प्रयास गर्न पछि नहट्ने विश्वास गर्न सकिन्छ । जुन अवसर क्यानको अथक प्रयास पछि पहिलो पटक प्राप्त गरेको हो । विश्वकप २०१५ को बाटो यस प्रतियोगितामा नेपाल आयोजक तथा सहभागि देश पनि हो । यस्तो प्रतियोगिता आयोजना गर्दा क्रिकेट खेल्न आउने आगन्तुक देशका माझमा नेपाललाई चिनाइ नेपाललाई खेल पर्यटनको गन्तव्य बनाउन सजिलो हुनेछ । प्रतियोगिता सञ्चालन गर्न पाउनु मात्र ठुलो कुरा होइन, यसलाई सफलता पर्ुवक सञ्चालन गर्नु एकदमै महत्वपर्ुण्ा छ । यस पटकको ठुलो प्रतियोगिता सम्पन्न गर्न क्यानले के विशेष प्रयास गर्छ - त्यो चाहिं हर्ेर्नै बाँकि छ ।

यस प्रतियोगितामा अधिकांश पुराना तथा केहि नयाँ प्रतिद्वन्दीहरु बिच नेपालले आफुलाई पुनः साबित गर्दैर् जानु पर्नेछ । अघिल्लो पटक आफ्नो अनुपम विजय यात्राको क्रममा सेमिफाइनलमा अफगानिस्तान तगारो बनि उभिंदा नेपालले चौथो डिभिजनमा उक्लने तथा विश्वकप २०११ सम्म कठिन नै भएपनि यात्रा तय गर्न बनाएको सोचलाई ठुलो धक्का पुगेको थियो । मेहबुब आलमले मोजाम्विक विरुद्ध पाएको विश्व किर्तिमानी १० विकेटले उत्साहित नेपाली टोली उक्त सेमिफाइनलको हारबाट क्षुब्ध भएको थियो । नहोस् पनि कसरि जसको कारण नेपालको विश्वकप पुग्ने सपना तुहिएको थियो ।
तर यसपटक सम्पर्ुण्ा कुरा फरक छ । सधैं नेपाली क्रिकेटलाई यस्ता तगारोले रोक्ने कोशिस गरेपनि यो पटक नेपालको सम्भावना सबैभन्दा बलियो छ, यस डिभिजनमा जित प्राप्त गरि डिभिजन ४ मा पुग्न र सोही बाटो हुँदै विश्वकप सम्म पुग्न । यस डिभिजनमा जित हात पार्न सके नेपाली टोलीको मनोबल उच्च भइ त्यसभन्दा अघिको बाटो पार गर्न ठुलो आँट मिल्छ । यसपटक बाजी नेपालको हातमा छ, नेपाल खेल्दैछ आफ्नो भुमिमा आफ्ना दर्शकको अपार मायाको साथ । यस पटकको सबैभन्दा ठुलो चुनौति दिनसक्ने टोली अमेरिका हो, जसले आईसीसी २०/२० विश्वकप क्रिकेट छनोट चरण खेल्ने अवसर पाएको छ, उक्त टोलीलाई नेपालले अघिल्लो संस्करणमा हारको स्वाद चखाइसकेको भएपनि नेपाली टोली सो टोली सँग सजग हुनर्ैपर्छ । क्यानडा र बर्मुडा सम्मीलित आईसीसी अमेरिकाज च्यापियनसिप जितेर हौसिएको युएसएको टोली पक्कै पनि नेपालको लागि खतरा बन्न सक्छ । त्यस्तै नेपाललाई ३ रनले हराइ नेपालको २००७ को विश्वकप खेल्ने सपनालाई तुहियाउने दुश्मन फिजी पनि उत्तिकै टाउको दुखाइ छ नेपालको लागि । तर जे भएपनि नेपाली टोली पहिलाको जस्तो छैन, अहिलेको नेपाली टोली त्यस्ता समस्या पन्छाउन सक्षम छ सो कारण पनि जित सम्भव देखिएको छ, तर जित त्यसै प्राप्त हुनेवाला चाहिं छैन । यसको लागि नेपाली टोलीले व्यापक गृहकार्य गर्नु जरुरी छ ।

प्रतियोगिता करिब ७ महिना पछि आयोजना हुने भएकोले नेपालले आफ्नो तयारी छिट्टै सुरु गर्नु बुद्धिमानी हुन्छ । राष्ट्रिय प्रतियोगिता सञ्चालन गर्न मंसीर तथा पौष कर्ुर्नु पर्दैर्न तथा यस पटक पहिला जस्तो एउटा मात्र राष्ट्रिय प्रतियोगिताको आधारमा मात्र होइन, २०/२० राष्ट्रिय लिग, एकदिवसिय लिग तथा सुरुवात मात्र भइ सम्पन्न हुन नसकेको दर्ुइदिवसिय राष्ट्रिय लिगलाई समेत पुनः व्युताई यस अवधिमा सञ्चालनमा ल्याउन सके उत्कृष्ट टोली छनोट गर्न सकिन्छ साथसाथै खेलाडिलाई पर्याप्त अभ्यासको अवसर पनि मिल्थ्यो । नेपाली क्रिकेटरको पर््रदर्शन तथा उत्साहले दंग परेका मेरिलेबोन क्रिकेट क्लबका नेपाल भ्रमण बेलाको टोली व्यवस्थापक लेफ्टिनेन्ट कर्र्णोल टिम लेरविलले भनेका थिए, नेपाली क्रिकेटरमा धेरै सम्भावना छ, तिनीहरुलाई निखार्न प्रशस्त घरेलु प्रतियोगिता खेलाउनु जरुरी छ । उनले भनेका थिए, घरेलु प्रतियोगिता खेल्नु नै ठुलो अनुभव हो, अनुभवको लागि अन्त गएर अरु टोली सँग खेल्न जरुरत छैन । उनले भनेजस्तै नेपालको घरेलु लिगलाई बृहत् बनाई खेलाडिलाई प्रशस्त अभ्यासको मौका दिएको खण्डमा खेलाडिको कौशल तथा धर्ैयता बढ्न जाने थियो भने आफ्नो फिट्नेश मेनटेन गर्न पनि सजिलै सक्थे । स्मरण रहोस् नेपाली खेलाडिमा फिट्नेस अभाव रहेको कुरा पाकिस्तान क्रिकेट बोर्ड एकेडेमीका प्रशिक्षक इजियाज अहमदले पनि भनेका थिए । यसको कारण प्रशस्त अभ्यासको कमि भएको कुरा औल्याएका पनि थिए उक्त पाकिस्तानी पर्ुव क्रिकेटरले । ति क्रिकेटका दिग्गजहरुले भनेका कुरामा ध्यान पुराउनु पक्कै पनि नेपाली क्रिकेटको लागि फाइदाजनक नै हुनेछ । घरेलु प्रतियोगिता संगसंगै केहि मैत्रिपर्ुण्ा अन्तर्रर्ााट्रय स्तरको प्रतियोगिता चाहिं पक्कै पनि सुनमा सुगन्ध साबित हुन्थ्यो ।

नेपाली क्रिकेटको लागि यो सौभाग्यको विषय हो कि अन्तर्रर्ााट्रय क्रिकेट काउन्सिल -आईसीसी) जस्तो गौरवशाली संस्थाको प्रतियोगिता आयोजना गर्नु । नेपालका श्रीलंकाली कोच रोय लुक डायसले पनि यसलाई सुनौलो मौकाको रुपमा चित्रित गरेका छन् । उनले भनेका छन् यस्तो प्रतियोगिता नेपालले आयोजना गरेको खण्डमा समग्र क्रिकेटको विकासमा टेवा पुग्नेछ । नेपालले यसबाट धेरै फाइदा उठाउन सक्छ । क्रिकेट सुहाँउदो वातावरण भएको नेपालले आफुलाई क्रिकेटको उत्कृष्ट गन्तव्य स्थलको रुपमा चिनाउन सक्छ ।

नेपाललाई अहिले जति यो प्रतियोगिता आयोजना गर्नु महत्वपर्ुण्ा छ त्यो भन्दा नेपाली क्रिकेटले विश्वकप २०१५ को सिंढीको रुपमा रहेको यस प्रतियोगिता जित्नु बढि जरुरी छ । यस पाँचौ डिभिजनमा सफलता पाएको खण्डमा चौथो डिभिजनमा उक्लने मौका पाउने तथा जसरी अफगानिस्तान विश्वकप छनोट चरण सम्म पुगेर एकदिवसिय मान्यता पाउन सफल भएको थियो त्यस इतिहासलाई पुनरावृति गराइ अझ त्यस भन्दा बढि सफलता प्राप्त गरि विश्वकप यात्रामा सहभागि हुन जरुरी छ र नेपाल यसको हकदार पनि हो । पर्याप्त इच्छाशक्ति देखाउन सकेमा सम्भव पनि छ । यस पटकको सुनौलो मौका सदुपयोग गरि विश्वकप २०१५ सम्म पुग्नुको विकल्प नेपाली क्रिकेटमा छैन । यो प्रतियोगिता आयोजना गर्नु क्यानको ठुलो चुनौती हो तर यो चुनौतीलाई मात्र मध्यनजर गरी खेलाडिको तयारीलाई नजर अन्दाज गर्न खोजे ठुलो भुल हुनेछ । यस प्रतियोगितालाई आर्थिक आम्दानीको दृष्टिबाट हेरेर यसलाई सफल बनाउन मात्र विशेष ध्यान दिइ आफ्नो सहभागितालाई क्यानले कतै वेवास्ता त गर्दैन - खाली अन्तिम अवस्थामा आएर तयारी सुरु गर्ने प्रवृति फेरि हावी त हुने हैन - भन्ने डर चलेको छ अहिले नेपाली क्रिकेट वृतमा ।

नेपालको यसपटकको टोली सम्भवत सबैभन्दा शसक्त टोली हुनेछ । हालको नेपाली टोलीलाई प्रतिनिधित्व गर्ने गरेको समुह भनेको यूवा, अनुभवि तथा कुशल खेलाडि नै हुन् । सम्भवत अहिले हाम्रा अगाडि देखिएका यिनै खेलाडिको बाहुल्य रहने छ अबको टोलीमा पनि । यि खेलाडि धेरै निखारिइ सकेका छन् । राष्ट्रिय, अन्तर्रर्ााट्रय तथा यूवा समूहको प्रतियोगिताको अनुभव यिनमा छ तथा पटक पटकको हारले यस टोलीलाई पक्कै पनि शसक्त बनाएको छ । नेपाली टोलीले विगतमा पाएको सफलताहरु तथा विश्वकप खेल्ने रोमाञ्चताले खेलाडिहरु ओतप्रोत पनि भएकै होलान् । खेलाडिहरु आफुले भोगेको हारको चोटलाई मेट्न पक्कै पनि लालायित हुनर्ुपर्छ । मात्र सहभागिता जनाएर केहि कमजोर टोलीलाई हराएर केकेन टोपल्यौं भन्ठाने यो भन्दा ठुलो धोका नेपाली क्रिकेटलाई अरु केहि हुँदैन । खेलाडिहरु यस प्रतियोगितालाई कत्तिको गम्भिरता पर्ूवक लिन्छन् त्यो चाहिं हर्ेन बाँकि छ । मात्र सहभागिता जनाउने उद्देश्य लिन्छन् वा विश्वकप नै पुग्ने महत्वकांक्षा बोक्छन् भन्ने कुरा भोलिको दिनमा समयले व्याख्या गर्दै जाला ।
अबको तयारी मात्र डिभिजन फाइभ जित्ने हुनुहुँदैन, यसमा पाउने जित त सुरुवात मात्र हुनर्ुपर्छ, आफ्नो गृह मैदानबाटै विजयी सुरुवात गर्ने अवसर पाउनु नेपाली टोलीको भाग्य नै मान्नु पर्छ । जसले जितको श्रृंखला सुरु गर्छ । महाकवि लक्ष्मीप्रसाद देवकोटाले, उद्देश्य के लिनु उडि छुनु चन्द्र एक भने झैं नेपालले वर्ल्डकप खेल्ने नै उद्देश्य राख्नु पर्छ । पक्कै पनि उद्देश्य अनुसार जान नेपाली टोली सफल हुन्छ । आफ्नो क्षमता अनुसार पर््रदर्शन गरे नेपाली टोली यसमा सक्षम पनि छ ।

आफ्नै गृह मैदानमा यस पटक नेपाली क्रिकेट प्रेमी, शुभचिन्तक तथा प्रशंसकले आफ्नो टोलीको पर््रदर्शन हर्ेन तथा र्समर्थनमा मैदानमा पुग्ने अवसर पनि पाउनेछन् । दर्शकको अपार माया तथा र्समर्थन नेपाली टोलीलाई जितको लागि शक्ति बर्द्धक हुनेछ । आफ्नो टोली पनि एकदिवसिय तथा टेष्ट क्रिकेट खेलेको हर्ेन चाहने नेपालीहरु आफ्नो टोली विश्वकपको लक्ष्ययात्राको सिंढि चढ्ने सफल कार्यमा सहयोगि हुन लालायित छन् । उक्त तथ्यलाई मनन गरि खेलाडि मैदानमा आफ्नो कर्तव्यपथमा इमान्दार हुन सके लक्ष्य पुरा हुने कुरामा दर्ुइ मत नहोला ।

Condition of Nepali Cricket

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Nowadays Nepali cricket has been in poor state. Either Asia Cup or World Cup cricket, Nepal is failed to qualify despite performing brilliantly in senior level. It’s really sad for Nepali cricket that Nepal fail to qualify even U-19 World Cup Cricket after being part of it 5 times in a row since 1998. Nepal defeated Test Nation like South Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, New Zealand and ODI status getter team Zimbabwe, Canada, Ireland, and Bermuda and so on during their age level tournament. Nepal got the name as Dark House, Giant Killer for their performance in International Cricket. But this failure in succession of cricket, one question arises. Who will take the responsibility of this? Coach, Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) or players who will? It Nepal is willing to perform well in further future; it should recognize the problem and apply solution for better future.

Players
Despite performing well in their age and senior level Nepali cricketer fails in key time and upset Nepali fans. When they begin lose and they started their regular slogan like we don't have enough practice? We have no future in cricket and so on. But one point that Nepali player must accept that no one in International cricketer started their career with great facility. In beginning they are in same state where Nepali cricket is. They generate glamour, money and crowd with their great performance in cricket. They spent their sweat and blood to made today's cricket. So Nepali player have to do better than now and attract more people to this. When they get more publicity they will get more facility than now. In Nepal the present condition is not available from begin. The condition made by the players own effort, it’s all because of their success in International arena.

Coach
It is Nepal’s fortune to have the cricket coach like Roy Luke Dias. In comparison with other non-test playing nation it’s sure that Roy Dias is best one. All his effort made Nepali cricket in today's condition. In his coaching period Nepal won all age level Asian tournaments and still progressing on it. But people have accused him for not producing lots of cricket in his long period in Nepal. Just a handful cricket he uses to get success. Present time there are very few crickets that can perform best in every level. In his cricketing career he was a pure batsman, but Nepal's major problem is batting. It’s really a serious question what he was doing with the Nepali team? In beginning he was trying to his best to make Nepali team as strong as possible. He arranges some practice matches before tournament with own effort. But now he has stopped all these things and comment over lose is sound like slogan. 'Players need lots of practice’; 'There is no more infrastructures'. Hello, sir this is not present problem. Nepali cricket is same in beginning. Just one major problem is Nepali facilities not increase, as it required. So Dias should accept his own weakness and try to overcome on this. It is the best way to promote Nepali cricket.

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN)
Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) is the oldest sports organization of Nepal. One organization to organize at least one league in a year is the main positive part of it. Every success that Nepal gets in cricket is also inspired by CAN. Either women cricket or age level cricket, we must respect CAN's effort on it. But every failure in Nepali cricket that CAN's careless is major. Only one short tournament will not gain positive result every time. CAN always trying to complete formality. Nepal have great future and Nepali cricket are potential they are not a bought cricket they are natural and pure Nepali. CAN even fails to utilize Cricket powerhouse India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, a test nation as well as neighbors of Nepal. Little support from this country can change whole scenario of Nepali cricket. CAN have do develop its infrastructure. Only one international cricket ground will not make Nepali cricket to play World Cup or Asia Cup.

Step should follow
That is sure that Nepali cricket is not going to be dominated. Because this game has generated lots of fans and encourage youths to play cricket. In Nepal, youth are adjusting to play cricket in road, gully and every small places. This means Nepal is not going to stop. If CAN starts to think and act on development of Nepali Cricket, that is sure, in future we are test nation. We can watch our team to play World Cup, because Nepali player have lots of potential, only requirement is that they need to shine. Each and every steps admire by CAN help to brandies Nepali cricket toward success.