Category Archives: Women Cricket

Nepal finished third in the 2018 ICC Women’s World T20 Asia Qualifiers and failed to qualify further in Thailand due to rain washing out first two matches and a surprise loss. Rain plays villain On first day on November 20 at the TCG between Thailand and Nepal finished as a no-result after 3.4 overs of the second innings. Batting first, the Thai girls were given a stiff test by Nepal as they lost five wickets for 42 before recovering to 90 for six in their 20 overs thanks to an unbeaten 23 from Naruemol Chaiwai. The sky was darkening as Nepal started their chase and rain finally intervened after 3.4 overs with the score on 10 for no wicket. Players… Read More

Nepal Armed Police Club (APF) Club completed hat trick of title beating Region No 5 Nepalgunj by 114 runs in the final of the National Women’s Cricket Tournament. In a final played at TU Ground, APF scored 187 for 8 wickets in allotted 4 overs and restricted injury-hit Nepalgunj for 73 runs for 8 wickets in 33.5 overs. Nepalgunj was two-players short after captain Nary Thapa and Rekha Thapa left the match early. Nary, who was later adjudged player of the tournament and best batswoman, injured on right leg after bowling a couple of deliveries. Sita Rana Magar topscored for APF with 58 runs with 11 fours. Captain Neera Rajopadhyay got 20, Karun Bhandari 17 not out, Rubina Chhetri and… Read More

By Manoranjan Sharma (Bhairahawa) Cricket has been included in the festival called 6th National Games and teams from all the development regions are participating. But women’s team of Western Region is special, for it has 7 players coming from the same school. And the school’s name is Apex School from Shankarnagar VDC, in Rupandehi district. The team captain, Indu Verma is a Class 8 student, while her teammate Pratikshya Basyal is in Class 9 at the same school. Both the girls were part of the U-19 Nepali team that won ACC U-19 Women’s cricket championship. Likewise, Alisha KC, Prabina Khadka, Sonia Paudel are batch mates in Class 8 in the same school and part of the Western Region team. Their… Read More

Nepal Government announced cash incentive of Rs 200,000 each to the team members of the ACC U-19 Women’s Championship winning cricket team on Thursday. Minister for Physical Planning and Works Hridayesh Tripathi informed reporters about the decision after Thursday’s meeting of Council of Ministers. Nepali U-19 Women’s team had lifted the title of the championship on Friday after defeating Thailand by six wickets in the final held in Kuwait. “It is a huge honor for me and all of my teammates as we all are from middle-class family,” said Nepali Captain Rubina Chhetri. “This award recognizes our achievement and inspires financially deprived players to seek crecketing career,” she added. The cash incentive will be given to all the 14 members… Read More

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) felicitated and awarded cash incentives on Sunday to all the members of Nepali U-19 Women’s cricket team, which lifted the title of the ACC U-19 Women’s Championship held in Kuwait on Friday for the third time in a row. The CAN awarded Rs 20,000 each to all the 14 players, a coach and two managers on Sunday amidst a function in the capital. Minister for Youth and Sports Kamala Roka, secretary at the ministry Sushil Ghimire and National Sports Council (NSC) Member Secretary Yuvaraj Lama handed over the prizes to the team members. Meanwhile, Wai-Wai, the instant noodles product of Chaudhary Group and the sponsor of the team, awarded Rs 51,000 to the winning team… Read More

Nepal pulled a six-wicket victory over Thailand in the ACC U-19 Women’s Championship Cricket Tournament on Friday to complete title hat-trick at Hubara Ground, Kuwait. Nepal had earlier lifted the title in 2008 and 2010. Nepal is the only team to remain undefeated in all three editions of the tournament taking its winning streak to 19 matches in the ACC tournament. Winning the toss Nepal invited Thailand to bat first on Friday and restricted them in just 74 runs off 22.4 overs. Nepal crossed the target after the completion of the 21st over with the loss of four wickets. Player-of-the-match Nepali skipper Rubina Chhetri grabbed three wickets in her 4.4 overs conceding only seven runs. Sangeeta Gauchan grabbed two wickets… Read More

Nepali men’s Under-19 cricket team has a history of winning ACC U-19 title 4 times in a row. Nepali U-19 girls team is chasing the same target. The team is prepared to participate in ACC U-19 women’s championship, in Kuwait, with an aim to take the title for the third time. Among boys, Nepal won the title 4 times, between 2001 to 2007, and played in ICC U-19 World Cup five times. Come August, Nepal will play in the U-19 World Cup for the sixth time, in Australia. Youth Asia Cup 2001 (late called U-19 ACC championship) was the first ever international title Nepal won, under captaincy of Binod Das. It was the U-19 team, who started making history among… Read More

Janakpur won the inaugural National U-19 Woman Cricket Tournament beating Bhairahawa by 6 wickets in the final at the TU Cricket Ground. Batting first Bhairahawa scored 66 for 8 wickets in allotted 20 overs. Janakpur needed 14.3 overs to overcome the target in the loss of four wickets.

Despite having a record partnership of 107 runs for the first wicket, Baitadi failed to qualify for the final of the Women´s U-19 National Cricket Tournament on TU Cricket Ground. Puja Bhatta and Dropati Kunwar shared the record partnership but Baitadi lost the match by three runs against Bhairahawa chasing the target of 125 runs.

Baitadi and Nepalgunj confirmed their berths in the semifinals of the Women´s U-19 National Cricket Tournament as the Group runner-ups. Baitadi beat Birgunj by 29 runs in the match played at IOE Ground. Baitadi opted to bat first and scored 105 runs losing nine wickets.