Monthly Archives: June 2013

National Cricket Academy (NCA) has provided full scholarship at the higher secondary level to 28 talented youth cricketers following completion of its talent hunt program for SLC-appeared students. NCA, set up on the initiative of national team coach Pubudu Dassanayake, made such announcement on Saturday upon completion of the 40-day training camp for youth players. Altogether 58 players had participated in the SLC training camp that started on April 21. Golden Gate, Himalayan Whitehouse and Xavier International have agreed to provide full scholarship to the players. NCA made the announcement during the closing ceremony of the talent hunt program for SLC students as well as U-12 school cricket at the NCA building at TU ground, Kirtipur on Saturday. ´The promising… Read More

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has been preparing infrastructure development programs as Asian Cricket Council (ACC) allocated more than $200,000 grant to Nepal from its Asia Cup Fund. “ACC has allocated the grant but to receive it we should send our program details to them and they have to approve the programs,” said CAN General Secretary Ashok Nath Pyakuryal. “In a process to receive the grant, we are preparing detail programs these days and we’ll send it to ACC within a month,” he added. According to Pyakuryal, the ACC grant will mainly be used in infrastructures development. “We are preparing programs so as to use the ACC grant in upgrading Mulpani Cricket Ground and Bhairahawa Cricket Ground as well as… Read More

Agni Incorporated awarded Nepali national cricket team captain Paras Khadka with a Demark DTM 150 Bike on Tuesday for his brilliant performance in the recent past. Paras was the man-of-the-series when Nepal won ACC Trophy Elite and finished the ACC T20 Cup as runner-up. Under Paras captaincy, Nepal has won ICC World Cricket League Division 3 and Division 4 tournaments to qualify for the World Cup Qualifiers. Agni Incorporated Deputy General Manager Rama Shankar Jaiswal handed over the key of the Demark DTM 150 Bike to Khadka in a program in the capital on Tuesday. Two years ago, Agni Incorporated had also announced Khadka as the brand ambassador of the Demark DTM Bike, a Malaysian brand.

As Nepali cricket gets increased ICC funding and players get busy in preparations for upcoming T20 and ODI world Cup Qualifiers, it is imperative that cricket fans are interested in what plans are put in place for the preparations. So we caught up with Nepal Coach Pubudu Dassanayake (via email). Here is what he has to say:   Q: What special preparations do you have for the T20 and ODI World Cup qualifiers? What are the new things you’re planning to introduce now? A: Both qualifiers are high quality tournaments and our team has to be at the best to achieve what we want. Our middle order did well in the last two tournaments. We need to fix the openers… Read More