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Nepal maintained their winning streak and thrashed Malaysia by 97 runs on Saturday in their second match of the ACC U-19 Women’s Championship being held in Kuwait. Nepal won the toss and elected to bat first. Opener Shilu Rijal scored 35 runs and Mamta Chaudhary remained unbeaten with 23 runs as Nepal scored 136 runs for five wickets in 25 overs. Indu Verma contributed 17 runs for Nepali team while Sonu Khadka remained unbeaten for 9 runs. Anuradha Chaudhary contributed five runs and Captain Rubina Chhetri scored just three runs. Kabita Gautam, who had scored 25 runs against China on Friday, scored just 2 runs against Malaysia on Saturday. Syazwani and Nadhirah took two wickets each forMalaysia. In reply, Malaysia… Read More

KATHMANDU, Feb 4 Nepalwon the second T20 match in their Mumbai Tour on Saturday as they defeated Nrilon Sports Club by five wickets. According to cricket umpire Raman Siwakoti, who is following Nepali team in Mumbai, Nirlon Sports Club won the toss and elected to bat first.Nepalrestricted them at 124/9 in 20 overs as Chandra Saud took four wickets. Amrit Bhattarai and Shakti Gauchan claimed two wickets each. Mohit Parwal was the highest scorer for Nirlon as he scored 53 runs. In reply, Nepali Captain Paras Khadka scored 57 runs and Sharad Vesawkar remained unbeaten for 49 runs to guideNepalto 128/5 in 19 overs. Paresh Lohani scored 12 runs. Prithu Baskota remained not out for six runs while Pradeep Airee… Read More

Nepali National Cricket team defeated Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) by seven wickets on Friday in its first T20 practice match in its Mumbai-tour. Nepali team led by Coach Pubudu Dassanayake and captain Paras Khadka is touring Mumbai for practice matches asNepalis preparing for the ICC World T20 Qualifiers to be held in the UAE on March. According to Nepali umpire Raman Siwakoti, who is also in the tour, Nepali team won the toss and elected to field first and the decision proved to be a right one. JNPT was all out for 53 runs in 16 overs. Basant Regmi and Sanjam Regmi took three wickets each while Amrit Bhattarai took two wickets. Chandra Saud and Mehboob Alam took a… Read More

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) board has appointed Keshav Ghimire and Binod Kumar Mainali as vice presidents. Mainali was elected as board member by CAN’s electoral general assembly in Chitwan on 18th of December, 2011. CAN President Tanka Aangbuhang had appointed Ghimire as board member on 6th January. Likewise, Thakur Prasad Pahadi and former national team captain Uttam Kumar Karmacharya are the new secretaries of CAN, following the board meeting. Karmacharya is an elected member of the CAN executive committee. Pahadi is nominated member. Meanwhile, the board meeting also appointed other eight people as member of the CAN executive committee. The nominated are Sanjeeb Pandey (Eastern Region), Ram Chandra Sharma (Central), Deepak Koirala (Western), Purna Lama (Mid-Western) and Bipat Ram… Read More

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) scheduled a tour to India for the national squad later this month as a preparation for the ICC World T20 Global Qualifiers. CAN, instead of four two-day cricket matches as proposed by coach Pubudu Dassanayake, opted for a trip to India during which the national squad will undergo training and play practice matches.

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Sunday announced 18-member preliminary squad for the closed-camp training to prepare for the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Under-19 Women’s Cricket Tournament. The players were selected by the selection committee headed by Bijaya Kumar Sharma analyzing their performance during the National U-19 Woman Cricket Tournament held in Kathmandu.

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.

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.

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

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