Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) dropped former captain Binod Das and named preliminary 18-member national squad on Tuesday for the upcoming ICC World T20 Qualifiers to be held in the UAE on March.
The CAN has called in Paresh Lohani in the preliminary squad.
Lohani, who was in the team for Pepsi World Cricket League Division 5 held in Kathmandu on February 2010 but pulled out his name from the team citing personal reasons, hadn’t made comeback in the national team since then.
According to the CAN, the 18-member squad will tour India for practice matches before the Qualifiers and the final 14-member squad will be selected after the India tour.
Paras Khadka is assigned as captain of the Nepali squad for the India tour. The 18-member team includes Gyanendra Malla, Prithu Baskota, Subash Khakurel, Basant Regmi, Binod Bhandari, Sharad Vesawkar, Sanjam Regmi, Pradeep Airee and Shakti Gauchan.
Likewise, Rahul Kumar Vishwakarma, Krishna Karki, Amrit Bhattarai, Anil Mandal, Avinash Karn, Mehboob Alam and Chandra Saud are included in the preliminary squad.