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ICC to live stream four of Nepal’s matches

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the live-streaming schedule for the upcoming ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier UAE 2013, which commences in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Friday. Sixteen matches from the group stages, including four to be played by Nepal, will be live-streamed on the ICC’s official website, www.icc-cricket.com.

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Binod Das dropped, Lohani in

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.

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ICC T20 Qualifiers fixture published

Nepal, Hong Kong and Afghanistan are grouped together in the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifiers to be held in UAE from March 13 to 24, 2012. The three Asian nations are placed together in Group A alongside Netherslands, Canada, Papua New Guinea, Bermuda and Denmark. Group B of the Global Qualifiers consists of Ireland, Kenya, Scotland, Namibia, Uganda, Oman, Italy and USA. The top two teams from the tournament will qualify for the ICC World Twenty20 to be held in Sri Lanka in September, 2012. Nepal will play its first match against Hong Kong at GCA2 Academy Oval Ground on March 13. Then it will meet Denmark (March 14, Dubai Sports City Stadium), PNG (March 15, Sharjah Cricket Stadium), Afghanistan (March… Read More

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Nepal clinches fifth position in ACC T20

Nepal clinched fifth position in the ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup after beating Singapore by 9 wickets in the fifth-place playoff at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Electing to bat first, Singapore was bowled out for 89 runs in 19.4 overs with Binod Das and Sanjam Regmi sharing six wickets. Dipendra Chaudhary matched the highest T20 individual score and Naresh Budair came in flying colors in his first-innings as Nepal won in 14.2 overs.

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Batting comes good against lowly Bahrain

Nepal earned third win in the ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup defeating lowly Bahrain by 7 wickets at the Al Dhaid Cricket Village to finish third in Group B and the rights to play 5th-place playoff against Singapore tomorrow. Invited to bat first, Bahrain scored 157/8 in 20 overs after early hiccups. Nepal needed 18 overs to complete the victory and lost three wickets on the way.

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Spinners bowl Nepal to win over Qatar

Spinners shared eight wickets to bowl out Qatar for 96 runs in 20 overs as Nepal registered a six-wicket consolation win in the ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup on Thursday. With Thursday’s results, Afghanistan and UAE from Group A and Oman from Group B have confirmed their berth to the semifinals. Kuwait is certain to qualify. Only a couple of super-miraculous results could put Nepal or Malaysia ahead of Kuwait in the net run-rate. Kuwait’s net run rate after four matches is +2.95 while Nepal is at -0.20 and Malaysia at -0.21.

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Oman beats Nepal by 12 runs

Nepal’s batting flattered once again as Oman registered a 12-run victory in the ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Dipendra Chaudhary took three wickets to restrict Oman to lowly 112/9 in 20 overs but Hemin Desai’s hat-trick wrecked Nepal’s top-order to bowl out Nepal for 100 in 19.1 overs. It was Oman’s third victory and Nepal’s second loss in three matches.

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Unlikely heroes earn Nepal victory

It was his first match, but Baitadi’s Binod Bhandari played an innings to cherish lifelong as Nepal rode on performances of unlikely heroes to earn a nail-biting victory against Kuwait at Shk. Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi. Dipendra Chaudhary took four wickets as Kuwait squandered a good start to get out on 123 in 19.1 overs. Nepali batting collapsed once again before debutant Binod Bhandari hit a six off the last ball to finish at 123/7 in 20 overs. Nepal won 3-2 in bowl out.

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Malaysia topples Nepal’s low total

Owing to the worst batting performance, Nepal lost its first match of the ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup to Malaysia by six wickets at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium. Nepal made 112/7 in 20 overs – its lowest T20 total – and Malaysia completed the victory in 17.2 overs losing just four wickets. It was Nepal’s first ever defeat at any level to Malaysia.

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Paras Khadka named national captain

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) named Paras Khadka as the national captain for the ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup. All-rounder Paras, 23, will replace Binod Das to become eighth cricketer ever to lead the national team. “We decided to change the leadership since it’s a new format of the game,” chief selector Arun Aryal said. “Since Nepal’s performance is not very good, we hope that new thoughts of new captain may change things.”

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CAN names T20 preliminary squad

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Wednesday named preliminary squad for the upcoming ACC Twenty20 Elite Cup. The 18-member squad will train in a closed camp before the selection committee headed by Arun Kumar Aryal picked the final 14.

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CAN undecided on T20 captaincy

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) Selection Committee will announce 18- member team for Asian Cricket Council (ACC) T-20 cricket tournament on October 21 but without naming the captain. The committee will later announce the names of the 14 players along with the captain.

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Three Nepali umpires in ACC T20

Three Nepali umpires will be in officiating matches during the ACC Twenty20 Cricket to be held in UAE from November 20 to 30.

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Nepal to play Malaysia in ACC T20 opener

(Updated with fixture on September 8.) Nepal will begin it’s campaign against Malaysia in the ACC Twenty20 Championship in UAE in Group B which also consists Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain. The event will be held in UAE from November 20 to 30, according to Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN).

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Nepal to open against Singapore in U-15 Asia Cup

Nepal will start play its first ever U-15 international match against Singapore when the U-15 Asia Cup will commence in December 7th in United Arab Emirates. Cricket Assiciation of Nepal availed the schedule of the tournament that feature 10 non test playing nation and four test playing nations of Asia yesterday.

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Nepal need more international matched : Raju Khadka

BY PURUSHOTTAM KATTEL: The Nepali cricket team led by veteran allrounder Raju Khadka proved their potentials in the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Trophy booking the Asia Cup Cricket Championship berth. Nepal entered the final of the championship but failed to clear the last hurdle as they went down by 6 wickets at the hands of the defending champions United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Nepal become ACC Trophy runner up

Nepal failed to restrict United Arab Emirates below 184 in Kallang of Singapore today thus allowing the defending champion to lift the trophy for the second time. UAE won the final clash by six wickets to deny the first time finalist Nepal from taking revenge of league clash which they won by six wickets. It was a perfect tournament for UAE who won all the six matches it played while Nepal lost two of six. Nepal has qualified for Asia Cup that also features Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, which has been the greatest success for Nepal.

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