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A group of cricket enthusiasts from United Kingdom wrote their names on the world record books for highest game of cricket ever played and the highest altitude ever recorded for a field sports by completing a Twenty20 game at Gorak Shep, near Mount Everest on Tuesday.

Touring Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) saw the best of Nepali teams in the three-day match that ended on Sunday at the TU Cricket Ground in an innings and 116-run win for the hosts. CAN XI displayed brilliant bowling performance to bowl out MCC for 131 in the first innings and 146 in the second innings. In between, guided by Gyanendra Malla’s 141, CAN XI declared the innings at 393/6.

Dipendra Chaudhary scored 107 against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to script a nine-wicket victory in the last limited over match at the TU Cricket Ground. Dipendra coincidently had scored 107 six years ago when MCC toured Nepal in 2003 in the last match of the tour to give Nepali side the lone victory. The difference is that he remained unbeaten and it was third victory in four matches for the hosts.

Nepali team has registered second victory over Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) defeating the visitors by five wickets in the one-off Twenty20 match at the TU Cricket Ground on Tuesday. Man of the match Dipendra Chaudhary scored a half-century to help CAN T20 Team complete the victory target of 125 in 18.2 overs. MCC had scored 124/5 in its innings.

Nepali side equaled visiting Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) by registering a thumping 103-run victory in the second of three limited over match on Monday at TU Cricket Ground. CAN Secretary XI scored 249/8 in 50 overs – thanks to unbeaten 67 by Sarad Vesawkar and bowled out MCC for 146 in 40.5 overs.

Visiting Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) began Nepal tour with an eight-run victory over CAN President’s XI at the TU Cricket Ground on Friday. Nepal managed only 138 in 41.4 overs after spinner Nishel Patel took seven wickets while MCC were 77/4 in 25.2 overs when the rain interrupted the match and the visitors won the match on DL method.

An MCC squad has set out for Kathmandu for a two-week tour during which they will play five games and hold three coaching sessions with local cricketers, an MCC release on Wednesday stated. The party includes former England spinner Min Patel, former Sussex and Glamorgan all-rounder Keith Newell, and former Somerset stalwart Keith Parsons.

The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) will play three 50-over matches, a Twenty20 game and a three-day match in Kathmandu when they tour Nepal in March. According to the schedule, MCC, the English club based at Lords’, will arrive Kathmandu on March 18 and leaves on April 1. They will play limited over matches on March 20 (against Nepal Red), March 21 (against Nepal Blue) and March 22 (against Secretary’s XI).

Twenty20 cricket will be featured in next year’s South Asian Games in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a meeting of the South Asian Olympic Council decided on Monday. The eleventh edition of the SA Games will be held from January 29 to February 8 with 23 events in 11 games, the 39th executive meeting of the council in Kathmandu agreed on.

Nepal lifts ACC U-17 Elite Cup 2009 defeating Malaysia in the final by 10 wickets. Sagar Pun and Akash Singh Pariyar added unbeaten 125-run opening partnership chasing Malaysia 124. Here is the complete scorecard: