Monthly Archives: December 2011

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced the fixture for inaugural Women’s Under-19 National Cricket Tournament beginning December 28. All eight cricket development regions will participate in the league-cum-knockout tournament to be hosted by Kathmandu. The top two teams from two groups will meet in the semifinals and the final will be played on January 1, 2012 at the TU Cricket Ground.

Not much is expected from Nepali team after ACC T20 Cup. Team’s batting was always a weak link, now bad bowling and fielding have put a question mark over Nepal’s T20 playing style. Many have started saying selection for T20 World Cup is daydream for Nepal. Coach Pubudu Dassanayake has confidence that Nepal could qualify for the T20 World Cup, if everything goes according to the plan. “Despite criticism of our performance at ACC T20, I don’t think we played all that bad,” he said. “If you look at the average score at the TU Ground, we were not far behind.” After reaching the semi-finals of ACC T20 Cup, Nepal qualified for the T20 World Cup qualifiers, that will be… Read More

Nepal’s cricket teams will compete in at least 8 cricket tournaments in 2012. No Asian Cricket Council (ACC) tournaments will be hosted by Nepal.

Newly elected president of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN), Tanka Aangbuhang, said that a committee will be formed for amending the CAN statute soon after the executive committee gets its full size. The general assembly of CAN that concluded in Chitwan on Sunday elected a 17-member executive committee and 14 others are set to be nominated either by the president or by the executive committee.

Maoist leader Tanka Angbuhang is elected as the president of the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) unopposed in the first ever election in CAN’s 64-year long history. All other members of the 17-member committee were also elected unopposed in the first-ever election of CAN in its six-decade history.

With a couple of days remaining to the first-ever election in the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN), the cricketing community gets busy and divided. National Sports Council (NSC) had dissolved the CAN led by Binay Raj Pandey on October 26 and installed UCPN (Maoist) central committee member Tanka Aangbuhang as new chief with a mandate to formulate its statute and hold election within the 60 days.

Coach Jagat Tamata and Binod Das will participate in the Level 3 of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Coaching Course to be held in Sri Lanka from December 15. The two-week course being organized in collaboration with Cricket Australia will make Tamata and former national captain Das the highest accredited coaches in Nepal. The-then Nepal’s coach Roy Luke Dias had represented Nepal in the Level 3 course on 2009. Tamata completed Level 1 in 2001 in Nepal and Level 2 in 2004 in Pakistan while Das had completed Level 1 in 2004 in Nepal and Level 2 in 2011 in Malaysia. Das was picked for Level 3 for his performance in the course in Malaysia earlier this year. Both Tamata… Read More

On the field, Qais Khalid Al Said is like any other Omani cricketer. The big man with headband on his bald head is always longing to contribute for his team’s victory. Off the field, however, he is His Highness, the cousin of the Sultan of Oman and bloodline of the Al Bu Sa’idi dynasty, the oldest monarchy in the world. Al Said, 33, is a medium pace bowler and bats lower down the order; but his contribution to the cricket doesn’t end at the field. He is also the vice-president of the Oman Cricket and is determined to take cricket in his country, where mainly expatriates play the game, to a next level. “In Oman cricket is not a big… Read More

Hong Kong will meet Afghanistan in the final of the ACC Twenty20 Cup. Hong Kong defeated Oman by 3 wickets in a semifinal after Afghanistan had outplayed Nepal by 9 wickets. Oman won the toss and elected to bat first. They batted well against normally disciplined Hong Kong bowlers who failed to claim wickets. They made 142 for 6 in 20 overs. Opener Zeeshan Siddiqui gave them the best possible start scoring 22 runs off Aizaz Khan. However, Hong Kong pegged down back putting brakes on the runs for next six overs, in which Oman only scored 24 more runs. Siddiqui fell after scoring 42 off 34 and Vaibhav Wategaonkar shouldered the responsibility of scoring and took the team to… Read More

Nepal has qualified for the semi-final of the ACC T20, as UAE failed to win their final league match by the required margin. Having put into bat UAE put up 168, and needed to contain Saudi Arabia within 98 runs to post a net run rate better than Nepal, which would have eliminated the host team from the tournament. UAE posted 168, thanks largely to Vikrant Shetty, who came in at 6 and thrashed the Saudi bowlers all around the park, pushing UAE to a huge total. At one point of time, UAE was 7 down for 105. Chasing a difficult target, Saudi Arabia started losing wickets right from beginning and the trend continued throughout, except that Hammad Saeed proved… Read More