upcoming tournaments

IN 2010

20-27 FebWORLD CRICKET LEAGUE DIVISION 5

8th-18th March: Under-16 Elite Cup (in Nepal)

21st-30th April: ACC Trophy Elite

22nd-30th September: Under-19 Women’s Championship

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South Asian Games : Nepal complete fourth in cricket

Nepal completed fourth in cricket in South Asian Games
6 teams of South Asia, excluding India, Afghanistan and Bhutan took part. The tournament was of twenty twenty format with under-21 age groupplayed in round-robin.Nepal lost to all others before winning over Maldives to get to play against Pakistan in bronze medal match.
Pakistan won bronze despite Nepal making 147 runs which Pak chased in last over with 2 wickets to spare.

Next tournament- World Cricket League Division 5 , starting from Feb 20

WCL-5 update

18 member squad selected for close camp
18 members have been named for close camp for upcoming WCL division 5 to be held in Kathmandu from Feb 22.

Sharad Vesawkar excluded
Big news is that S.Vesawkar, one of the great names in cricket, has been excluded from WCL-5. This is after his poor form in recent ACC T-20 and also owing to his health problems (piles- a national daily wrote today).From the recent ACC T20, Ajay Rajbanshi and Chandra Sawad who were in the 18-member squad for the T20 have also been missed out, giving way to U-15 captain Prithu Baskota, Subash Khakurel and Dhirendra Chand . Welcome Youngsters

Paras captain, Gyanendra vice- captain
Paras Khadka has been continued as captain, while SAG-U23 captain Gyanendra Malla has been named vice captain.

USA interested in practice match
USA has expressed its interest to CAN to play practice matches in Nepal. 2 other teams have also shown interest. however, it isn’t confirmed as ground may not be available.

Joint training camp
A joint training camp for the WCL-5 and the SAG is beginning on December 30. Not ideal for two forms of game, but definitely cost- effective. Also, since there is a common coach and some players are common to both teams, will definitely do good than harm.

Teams participating
Nepal, USA, Fiji, Jersey, Singapore, Bahrain

Practice match with Sri Lankan team
A team from Sri Lanka, probably A team might come to nepal to give nepal some practice before the big tournament.

SAG updates

18 players selected
18 players have been selected for SAG to be held from Jan 29 in Bangladesh, of which 14 will be selected later

Dias not going Bangladesh as coach
Since he will be busy with preparation for WCL close camp, he won’t go to Bangladesh as coach. The head selector Arun K Aryal will be the coach of U-23 team in SAG

Gyanendra the skipper
Gyanendra Malla is named the captain of the squad

scorecards of ACC T20

Group Match 1 : Nepal vs Malaysia
Group Match 2 : Nepal vs Kuwait
Group Match 3 : Nepal vs Oman
Group Match 4 : Nepal vs Qatar
Group Match 4 : Nepal vs Bahrain

5th place playoff : Nepal vs Singapore

next mission – mission SAG

The next mission for Nepali cricket is South Asian Games, to be held in Bangladesh, from jan 29 to feb 8.
It will be U-21. So, only the players below 21 years are lucky to be playing with the likes of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.
Nepal team is holding a closed camp from December 12 with 28 players. 5 of those playing in ACC T20 who were U-21 are already selected for final team.

There is high certainty of practice matches in Bangladesh or India.

C’mon boys,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,best of luck

nepal 5th in ACC T 20

Nepal became 5th in recently concluded ACC T 20 tournament.
Being 3rd in the group stage by run difference, nepal couldn’t reach semis. However, winning 5th place playoffs put nepal in 5th place

Paras Khadka the new captain

All rounder Paras Khadka has been named as the national captain for the ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup. He is the 8th captain of the team.

Paras had captained U-17 in 2004 and under his leadership, Nepal won the ACC U-19 Elite Cup in 2007 and finished plate runners-up in the Youth World Cup in Malaysia in 2008. He has played in U-15, U-17, U-19, Senior sides.

Know more about him reading his interview by ACC before U-19 world cup here .
A page on wikipedia about him here

Nepal cricket: where is it going?

This always comes to my mind. Is our cricket going forward? Or backward?
So, I have come up with certain positives and negatives of Nepal cricket
Positives
1. very good players (at least we think so)
2. good coach (!) he really is, I think
3. Now we are ranked about 27th in world (cricketeurope.com) (i.e.17th after regular 10). This is good as compared to other fields. (we are below 175 in football and 170 or below in human development), out of about 200 countries in the world. (Believe it or not) In that matter, it’s great
4. Good support from fans. (thousands of spectators and live coverage of all matches played here). No other team of this level might have this
5. Good public interest (as above)
6. Increasing interest of players. (according to a report, last year Nepal had one of the best increase in no. of players playing all levels.)
7. Increasing influence of T20 (interesting, since our batters didn’t last long earlier now it’s good for them) (Also, now game completes faster, so much interest)
8. TU ground is really good bowling pitch, so our bowlers are good (my view)
Negatives
1. Poor nation, poor CAN, poor players. (explain many things)
2. lack of regular trainings
3. players need to work to earn, can’t concentrate on playing
4. lack of proper match practice
5. my main concern- lack of before-tournament training::: 15- day trainings before major tournaments isn’t gonna help
6. lack of killer instinct in players——- losing semi-finals 4 in 4 years of major tournaments reaching final of each was rewarding

coming future
1. ACC T20 from 3rd week of November. My best wishes to the team. Last time we were 4th out of 5 teams in the group. This time I hope we will at least reach semi final
2. rumors about change of captain. May anything that happen, happen for the good
3. cricket has been included in SAG. Now we will get to play with the likes of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh. Very good opportunity to learn.
4. Top 3 of ACC may get chance in Asian games. (wow!
5. ICC WCL in Feb. in home ground. Start preparing and who knows?
BEST OF LUCK

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Nepal cricket covered in Al Jazeera

Nepal cricket covered by Al Jazeera TV. Watch the video on youtube.

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ACC T20 this month

ACC T 20 tournament is starting this month in UAE from 20th november. 8 top teams of Asia participating. the top 3 might get chance to play in asian games. (not quite sure of it). our team has started preparing. closed camp has been started. there is a possibility of changing the captain. in a practice match, nepal beat a team from mumbai.

last time, we were 4th out of 5 teams in the group. hoping for better performance this time

teams are :Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Nepal, Oman, Qatar, Singapore and the UAE