In a press meet organised by Queens Event Management in Kathmandu, Khadka expressed his view about winning the World Cup, as the management company introduced a brand new U16 cricket tournament, the Baliyo Nepal Cup, aiming to uplift grassroots cricket in Nepal.

The Queens Event Management company is one of the pioneers in the Nepalese domestic cricket circuit which has successfully organised the premier T20 franchise leagues – the Pokhara Premier League and Women’s Champions League, until the outbreak of COVID-19.

This will be the third venture of the event management company towards cricket development and will be supported by the Baliyo Nepal initiative.

“We are on a mission to win the ICC Cricket World Cup within 2039. We have played a Cricket World Cup (T20) earlier, and we have aimed for at most 19 more years to win the ICC Cricket World Cup.

“Earlier, people used to laugh at us when we dreamt about playing the world cup in 2013-14, but then, we worked hard on the field and fulfilled our dream. This initiative is a pathway to our world cup winning dream”, Khadka, also the board member of the Baliyo Nepal initiative, told the press.

The Baliyo Nepal Initiative, works on the availability of nutritious diets to children, with a goal to make Nepal ‘a strong and malnutrition-free country’. The organisers announced that in the first phase, the Baliyo Nepal Cup will see the participation of 12 districts’ respective boys teams from the Lumbini Province, one among seven provinces of Nepal.

The tournament will be played in a T20 format, after carrying out talent hunts in schools of all districts in the province. In the latter stage of the young talent development program, the organisers have announced that the tournaments will be carried out all across the nation, to both boys and girls.

“I think we all trust now that cricket in Nepal has a lot of potential. To fulfill our dream of winning the World Cup, we need to invest at the grassroots level, especially the school cricket. I wish luck to the organisers in finding young cricketers from nooks and corners of the country”, Gyanendra Malla, the current skipper of the Nepal Cricket Team, said in the press meet.

The talent hunt will be carried out from the 25-28th of April while the tournament is set to kick off from 3rd to 10th of April, in Lamahi District of Dang.

Source: Emergingcricket

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Match in Numbers:

• Chitwan Rhinos – 202/5
• Biratnagar Titans – 170/7
• Player of the match – Rohan Mustafa (Chitwan Rhinos)

Rhinos won by 32 runs

While chasing the mammoth 203-run target put forth by Rhinos, Titans could manage 170 runs for the lose of 7 wickets in their 20 overs.

Muhammad Zaid (57), top scorer for Titans, and Pradeep Airee (36) managed to draw runs but failed to take their team across the line.

Karan KC of Rhinos restricted the Titan batsmen by grabbing three wickets, while Sunny Patel picked up two wickets.

Earlier, asked to bat first, Rhinos lit up the stadium by scoring 202 runs for 5 wickets in the prescribed 20 overs.

Fifties by Rohan Mustafa and Anil Sah has powered Rhinos to the mammoth total.

Mohammad Zaid and Mehra took two wickets each for Biratnagar.

Nepal PPL 2019 Awards:

• Chitwan Rhinos (Winners) —- Rs. 2.7 million
• Biratnagar Titans (Runners) —— Rs. 1 million
• Rohan Mustafa (Man-of-the-series) —- TVS Motorcycle
• Gyanendra Malla (Best Batsman) — TVS Motorcycle
• Karan KC (Best Bowler) — TVS Motorcycle
• Lokesh Bam (Most valuable player) — Rs. 100,000

Pokhara Premier League (PPL) 2019 is the 2^nd edition of the Twenty20 cricket tournament in Nepal and was started on a grand scale at Pokhara stadium on December 15, 2019.

PPL 2019 Final Match : Chitwan Rhinos Vs Biratnagar Titans –  Video

Pokhara Premier League (PPL) 2019 –  Match Points Table

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Nepal began its batting account with Captain Gyanendra Malla and Khushal Bhurtel. However, Malla was bowled out without scoring any runs for the team.

With steady performances from P Sarraf and Vesawkar, the Nepali side managed to put up a decent score. Both players were the top scorers in the team, contributing 56 and 44 runs, respectively.

Nepal closed its account with a total of 193 runs and set a target of 194 for India.

India marked a fantastic start with BR Sarath and A Juyal. While Sharath scored 49 runs from 49 deliveries, Juyal scored 29 runs from 43 deliveries for his team.

This was followed by an even more impressive stint by Sanvir Singh, who scored 56 runs from 73 deliveries and Armaan Jaffer’s 51 runs from 77 deliveries.

Match Summary

• Nepal Emerging Team: 193 all out
• India Emerging Team:194/3
• India won by 7 wickets (with 48 balls remaining)

Congratulations Team India!

Watch out for Nepal’s next match against Hong Kong.

Background

Nepal and India are playing their first match of the 2019 ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup at the Krira Shikkha Protisthan Ground No. 3 today.

The eight-nation tournament involves five test playing nations and three associate nations.

The UAE was originally chosen to play in the upcoming series. However, the team withdrew from the tournament and gave way for Nepal’s participation.

Nepal U23 team is playing alongside host country Bangladesh, Hong Kong and India.

Nepal Vs India  – Watch Live Stream ACC Emerging Teams Asia Cup 2019

The top two teams from the group stage will qualify for the semi-finals to be held on November 20, 2019.

Nepal Playing XI

Aarif Sheikh, Avinash Bohara, Binod Bhandari, Ishan Pandey, Karan KC, Kushal Bhurtel, Lalit Rajbanshi, Pawan Sarraf, Rohit Kumar Paudel, Sandeep Jora, Sharad Vesawkar, Sushan Bhari and Sompal Kami.

Captain: Gyanendra Mall, Vice-Captain: Dipendra Singh Airee

India Playing XI

Aryan Juyal, Aditya Thakare, Arman Jaffer, Chinmay Sutar, Hrithik Shokeen, Parth R, Sanvir Singh, Saurabh Dubey, Siddharth Desai and Yash Rathod

Captain: Sharath BR

The series marks Malla’s first cricket venture after being appointed as Nepal team captain.

All the best Team Nepal!

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When Khadka was asked about who according to him should be Nepal’s next cricket captain, he unhesitatingly named Gyanendra Malla.

Paras Khadka stepped down from the captaincy after the International Cricket Council confirmed the reinstatement of the Cricket Association of Nepal.

Likewise, Dipendra Singh Airee has replaced Malla as the Vice-Captain of the Nepal national cricket team and Rit Gautam has been appointed as the captain of the Nepal U-19 Team, replacing Rohit Kumar Paudel.

Paras Khadka Congratulated Gyanendra Malla

Congratulations to the most deserving person @gyanu_gm11 on being appointed as the Captain of the Nepal Cricket Team. One who has served the country with great passion,discipline and commitment.I am very sure we will prosper under his leadership to new heights. pic.twitter.com/wbjK4wKnEI

— Paras Khadka (@paras77) October 30, 2019

Congratulations to Gyanendra Malla and Rit Gautam!

Nepali Sansar wishes them luck for all their endeavors. All the best! Stay tuned for all Nepal cricket news updates!

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In a recent update in this regard on February 20, 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has also announced the 19-member Nepali cricket team that would be playing the Qualifiers tournament.

The team to be led by Captain Paras Khadka and Vice-Captain Gyanendra Malla has Dipendra Singh Airee, Aarif Sheikh, Rohit Kumar Poudel, Dillip Nath, Sandeep Lamichhane, Karan KC, Sharad Bheshwakar, Sompal Kami, Basanta Regmi, Shakti Gauchan, Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi, Anil Kumar Sah and Lalit Bhandari.

Besides the main team, ICC has also selected Kishor Mahato, Siddhant Lohani, Binod Bhandari and Sunil Dhamala as reserve players.

It is noteworthy here that Nepal has recently secured its entry to the Qualifier round through the astonishing victory it has garnered in the ICC World Cricket League Division-2 match with Canada on February 14, 2018.

Despite its win against Canada, Nepal moved to Group B in the Qualifier round because of its final defeat against UAE in the Division-2 final match against UAE.

Nepal will be facing Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Scotland and Hong Kong in the Group B of the Qualifier round, with first match against the Zimbabwe team on March 04, 2018, followed by the second one with Scotland team on March 8, 2018, third with Afghanistan on March 10, 2018 and fourth with the Hong Kong team on March 12, 2018.

Whereas, Group A consists of UAE, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Scotland and Hong Kong.

The winner and first runner-up of these two groups will appear in the ICC World Cup 2019 slated to be held in England and Wales in 2019.

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UAE won the toss and elected to bat first, scoring 277 runs for the loss of four wickets in the allotted 50 overs. Chasing the mammoth target of 278, Nepal managed to score only 270 losing eight wickets despite a valiant century by captain Paras Khadka.

Paras’s Efforts in Vain

In spite of the huge target at an asking rate of over 5.5 runs per over, Nepal put up a spirited chase beginning with a 38-run opening stand between Dilip Nath and Gyanendra Malla. Paras Khadka, who walked in after the fall of the first wicket, then put together useful partnerships of 73 runs with Dipendra Singh Airee and 63 runs with veteran middle order batsman Sharad Vesawkar.

After Vesawkar’s departure at the score of 174/4 in the 38^th over, Nepal required the rest of the batsmen to rally around Khadka in order to chase the target successfully. However, regular wickets at quick intervals did not help their cause.

Paras continued his stupendous effort scoring 112 runs in just 103 balls, which included three towering sixes in the last over. However, the task of scoring 28 runs in the 50^th over proved to be impossible even for the swashbuckling skipper leaving Nepal to be content with the runner-up title.

For UAE, opener Ashfaq Ahmed was the top scorer with 114 runs laced with 10 fours and 3 sixes, while skipper Rohan Mustafa scored 51 runs.

Sandeep Lamichhane, the joint highest wicket taker with 17 scalps in six matches was awarded the Man of the Tournament title.

It is noteworthy here that Nepal has earlier secured its position in the 2019 World Cup Qualifiers following an outstanding victory against Canada on February 14, 2018.

In the ICC World Cup Qualifiers scheduled to be held in Zimbabwe in March, 2018, Nepal will now play in Group B along with Afghanistan, Scotland, Hong Kong and the hosts.

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As part of this journey, Nepali cricket team faced Namibian cricket team in the first match of the ICC World Cricket League (WCL) Division-2 on February 08, 2018.

Winning the toss, Nepali team chose to bowl first. Basant Regmi and Shakti Gauchan form the major strength of Nepal team’s bowling order.

Whereas, Captain and Skipper Paras Khadka, Vice-Captain Gyanendra Malla, Sharad Vesawkar, Dilip Nath, Gyanendra Malla, and Dipendra Singh Airee, among others form the key batting order of the Nepali cricket team.

Besides, the team also has the leg-spin bowler Sandeep Lamichhane, who rose to fame after being chosen for the Indian Premier League (IPL) trophy in the recently-held auction.

Hoping the Best

“Our batting has to click. There is no doubt about that. The top and middle-order batsmen have to take the responsibilities and perform. At this level, we have to push ourselves to do better. As a team, everyone is hungry to perform, so I am hopeful we can deliver when it matters,” says Khadka.

Former Mumbai Coach for Ranji Trophy Sulakashan Kulkarni has been roped in as the batting consultant for the team in Division-2 matches.

“Kulkarni has been very strategic and very precise. Having a new experienced voice in the dressing room always helps. He has done what he needed to and now it all comes down to how we deliver,” adds Khadka.

Most Critical

This match is most critical for Nepal as it is important for Nepal to win this match to be positioned in the place in ICWCQ, establish itself as the one-day international cricket team and also win participation opportunity in the matches with non-Test playing countries.

To overcome this challenge, Nepal has to win the Division 2 which also has Kenya, Oman, UAE and Canada as competitors.

However, the match with Namibia sounds positive for Nepal going by the country’s win over Namibian cricket team in WCL Division-2 2015 which earned Nepali team entry into WCL championship.

Nepal has been moved to Division 2 tournament owing to its failure with UAE and Hong Kong teams in the final stages of WCL, exactly three ranks after the top four who entered the Qualifiers round.

While a total of six teams are competing, the top two teams of this round-robin league will move to finals and find a place in the ICCWCQ 2018 in coming March.

Post this match, Nepal will face Oman on February 9, 2018, and later the UAE team. Following this, the team will also play with Kenya on February 12, 2018, and play the final round match with Canada on February 14, 2018.

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Nepal’s EPL Twenty20 cricket tournament, a significant step towards development of the country’s cricket sport, is coming after an 8-month-long suspension faced by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) and was sanctioned by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

The Nepali Premier League (NPL) tournament, being organized by a private entity, marks the first-ever auction of local cricket players at the national-level and will also see the participation of international cricket players.

Grand Announcement

EPL Pvt. Ltd. unveiled the championship trophy on December 17, 2017 with the Indian cricketer Arun Lal as one of key dignitaries at the event.

     Kathmandu Kings and Lalitpur Patriots in the first match 

“EPL is a start of something big which is very essential. Indian Premier League (IPL) has not only raised generation of cricketers, but also changed the face of sport in India. EPL is providing an environment where cricketing potential can prosper,” Lal said in his address at the inaugural event.

While Bhairahawa Gladiators is the only team that announced international players, Sri Lankan cricketer Farveez Maharoof is the only biggest name associated with EPL so far.

“There are players coming in from other countries making it a tournament that we had never competed in. This has certainly lifted the level of Nepali cricket. The international players have the experience of playing in high-level cricket. Their presence also means an opportunity for us to learn a lot of things from them,” says Sharad Vesawkar, Gladiators’ team lead.

Kathmandu Kings Vs. Lalitpur Patriots

The first match under the tournament will see an intense battle between Kathmandu Kings XI, led by the Sri Lankan cricketer Farveez Maharoof, and Nepali cricketer Gyanendra Malla’s Lalitpur Patriots team.

“The first match of the tournament is always going to be important for us. The playing conditions look pretty decent here. We have a good squad and hopefully we are going to make a winning start,” says Maharoof.

Speaking on the inaugural match, Lal had earlier stated, “If you have a 19-year old home-grown talent who ends up bowling out Maharoof for a duck, it instils a huge amount of self-belief.”

While Kathmandu Kings has Sri Lankan cricketer Akshu Fernando and Sagar Kumar of India as squads, its rival Lalitpur Patriot roped in Indian players including the former Delhi Daredevils all-rounder Yogesh Nagar, Subod Bhati and Jaykishan Kolsawala.

“I think they (Kings XI) have become even better by the inclusion of Maharoof because Kings XI are already a better side. We have a balanced squad and would like to play the best cricket to return with victory,” says Malla.

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