Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has selected 26 young probable players for the closed camp for U-19 Youth Asia Cup that will be held in Karachi of Pakistan during in third and fourth week of July.
The tournament was initially scheduled to be held in Singapore but the SARS epidemic forced the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) to shift the Youth World Cup selection tournament to Karachi. Continue reading
National Sports Council (NSC) has announced a new ad hoc committee of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) retaining most of its former members including President Jai Kumar Nath Shah.
Those who were in the dissolved committee and did not found any place in the new committee are Pramos Upadhaya (vice-president), Uma Karki (vice-president), Shahi Dutt Pandey (Treasurer), Damodar Nath Suwal (joint secretary), Rajendra Bahadur Bam, BS Gurung, Narendra Shrestha, BS Dhami and Anil Shah (all members). Continue reading
I would like to start with two quotes:
“India are more experienced team than us, our boys should learn from them,” said Nepal’s Sri Lankan coach Roy Dias.
“I am really disappointed with the behaviour of the Indian team. Being an experienced and good team, they should set an example and let us learn that, but they didn’t do that,” said Nepal U-19 manager and spokesperson of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) Tarak Mani Dixit. Continue reading
The Under-19 teams of test powerhouse India and rookie Nepal will play the first ever one day match in the Himalayan kingdom today. The two teams is playing for Kathmandu Klash Trophy. The matches will be played with white balls and colour clothes.
The Indian team arrived on Friday. There are two changes in the Indian team annouced earlier. Baroda decided to pull out its two key players – Irfan Pathan and Rakesh Solanki – for the Ranji Trophy final clash with Mumbai. Instead of Pathan and Solanki, seamer VRV Singh and Anoop Pai are included in the team. Continue reading
Shakti Gauchan has been appointed as the captain of the Nepali U-19 team that will play three one-day matches against India U-19, during the first ever visit by an official team of the test playing nation.
Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) included four new faces in the team, which otherwise has the players of the team that participated in Youth World Cup in New Zealand last year. Four new players are Sarad Veshwakar, Munik Shrestha, Irfan Siddique and Dipesh Khatri. All of them had already represented Nepal in various age-group. Continue reading
The future of Sri Lankan cricket coach Roy Luke Dias, the most successful foreign coach for Nepal, looks uncertain after his one-and-half-year contract with Asian Cricket Council (ACC) and Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) ended yesterday.
Dias has publicly expressed his desire to stay in Nepal, but has lamented CAN officials for not initiating contract extension process in advance. “If they wanted my contract extension they should have started the procedure in advance,” Dias told an English daily. Continue reading
International Cricket Council (ICC) has decided to cancel the World Cup Qualifying Series (WCQS) due to the financial contraints following the loss it bears after England and New Zealand’s boycott to world cup games.
The world cup sponsors and television companies have also threatened to withheld the payment as ICC failed to persuade India to make their players to sign the controversial players contracts. Continue reading
Records, records and records!
Its what Nepal saw breaking when it played the newest cricket nation Bhutan in Emerging Nations’ Cup in Tribhuvan University ground on Saturday. Continue reading
A record breaking eight-wicket haul by Mehaboob Alam guided Nepal to a comfortable 116-run win over Maldives in the Emerging Nation’s Cricket tournament played at the Tribhuvan University cricket ground on Friday.
The Biratnagar allrounder broke the bowling record set by his teammate Dipendra Chaudhary, who picked up 6-46 in the second ACC Trophy 1998 against United Arab Emirates. Alam took eight wickets in his full quota of 10 overs conceding 23 runs. Continue reading
Maldives recorded an emphatic win against Bhutan in the Emerging Nations Cup triangular tournament that started Thursday at the Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground.
Bhutan managed mere 62 runs in its first-ever-international cricket match and batted for 28.5 overs after being asked to. Maldives surpassed the score in 11.2 overs losing only one wicket of Abdulla Shafeell. Continue reading
Cricket Association of Nepal has announced the 18-member Nepali squad for the Emerging Nations’ Cup triangular cricket tournment in Kathmandu.
The triangular, featuring Nepal along with the Maldives and Bhutan, will be held during March 6 to 10. This will be the first ever international tournament for Bhutan. Continue reading
One of the most promising opening batsman of Nepal, Kiran Agrawal, has announced his retirement from cricket on Friday.
“The future of Nepali cricket is bright, but I am retiring from it as I have to give more time to my business,” Kiran said. Kiran is running a motorcycle showroom in his hometown Dharan. He last played in ICC Trophy 2001 in Canada representing Nepal. Continue reading
Balbro, an Indian company manufacturing sports goods, has signed three Nepalese cricketers on a promotional contract for three years.
National vice-captain Binod Das, all-rounder Bardan Chalise and opener Paresh Lohani will receive crickets kit equivalent to Rs. 35,000 each year under the contract, according to Nirmal Kumar Rajbhandari, of New Sports Line, the authorized distributor of Balbro goods in Nepal. The players would have to use the clothing and kits provided by Balbro while playing. Continue reading
Region No5 Nepalgunj suffer another heavy defeat against mightly Region No 1 Biratnagar in the last of the league match of ongoing second Birendra Memorial National League Cricket Championship.
Biratnagar received a huge boost for the final, on February 23, against Region No 3 Kathmandu following their emphatic 193-run win. Continue reading
Region No 1 Biratnagar will try to defend its title against Region No 3 Kathmandu on February 23 as both the matches on the fifth day of ongoing second Birendra Memorial National League Cricket Championship were cancelled due to the wet grounds.
Region No 4 Bhairahawa, who lost trophy to Biratnagar on net run rate as rain cancelled the final last year, will return back. Bhairahawa shared points in two matches among total of four matches. It won only one. Continue reading
Defending champion Region No 1 Biratnagar sidelined last year’s finalist Region No 4 Bhairahawa in what was dubbed as the last years’ final. The final between these two teams could not take place last year due to rain, but Biratnagar today justified that the run-rate decision was alright then.
Yashwant Subedi and man of the match Lakpa Lama were the heroes for Biratnagar in each innings. Yashwant played sensible cricket to make 75 out of 144 balls he faced with two hits over the ropes and 11 fours in St. Xaviers School ground. On the other innings, Lakpa took four wickets off his 10 overs giving away just 14 runs. Continue reading
Region No 3 Kathmandu continued their form as Region No 2 Birgunj and Region No 5 Nepalgunj faced second consecutive defeat in the second day of ongoing second Birendra Memorial National League Championship in Kathmandu.
It was one-sided affair for Kathmandu after it elected to bat at Tribhuvan University ground against weak Nepalgunj, which suffered a humiliating 199-run defeat on the first day. Kathmandu made 273 in their allotted 50 overs, thanks to the highest ever score of 80 in the championship from Sandeep Shrestha. Nepalgunj in reply could only manage 123 runs in 39.3 overs. Continue reading
Region No 3 Kathmandu and Region No 4 Bhairahawa registered wins on the first day of the Birendra Memorial National League Cricket Tournament here on Sunday.
In the match held at TU ground, Kathmandu beat Birgunj by 36 runs, while Bhairahawa defeated Region No 5 Nepalgunj by 199 runs. The victory was biggest margin in the championsfip. Continue reading
Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) will host the triangular series comprising of Bhutan, the Maldives and Nepal in early March this year.
The tournament is a part of Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Development Programme, said Tarak Mani Dixit, the spokesperson of CAN here today. Similar tournaments involving Associate and Affiliate members of International Cricket Council (ICC) will also be organised in Kuwait and Hong Kong. Continue reading
The ACC U-15 ‘dream team’ is scheduled to play one two-day match and four one-day matches against the local teams of Sri Lanka in Colombo and Galle.
The team selected from the best performing players of U-15 Asia Cup held in UAE will be led by Nepali captain Raj Shrestha and will feature five more Nepali players. Continue reading
Sports can give you fame in a minute! That’s what some people believe. Be in the big time and do some extraordinary, you will be in no time famous.
The U-15 cricket team did the both. It went to play U-15 Asia Cup in UAE and reached the semifinal of the tournament thwarting Bangladesh on the way. Continue reading
When Keith McAuliff, CEO of New Zealand Sports Turf Institute, came to visit the Tribhuvan University Cricket Ground a couple of years ago, he asked, “Where’s your pitch?” Incidentally, he was standing on it.
Naturally, it is not that he did not know the difference between the pitch and the outfield. Just that the pitch hardly looked any different from the outfield making McAuliff, who was used to seeing green top on cricket pitches, unable to find it out. Continue reading
Super Star Club became the winner of the Kalaiya League Cricket Tournament defeating Vinex Club in the final match by four wickets. Continue reading
Kalaiya Cricket Club (KCC) of Bara district held 24th Anniversary Function and second Annaul General Meeting recently in Muskan Plaza Hotel which was presided over by club chairman Sushil Chaugai. Continue reading
If India had agreed to particpate in Asia Cup two years ago, he would have been the first Nepalese to play one-day international cricket. But his dream was scattered after the tournament was postponed after India denied to play given to the controvery of Kashmir between the two rival neighbours. But still there are chances that, Sher Bahadur Lama, who plays his international cricket for Hong Kong, can achieve it. Continue reading
