Pepsi, Standard Chartered to sponsor senior team
Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) signed a five-year deal with Pepsi and Standard Chartered Bank for the sponsorship of the senior national team and one-day as well as Twenty20 national tournaments.
According to the deal, worth Rs. 3m, Pepsi will be the sponsor of the team while Standard Chartered will be the co-sponsor. The deal has to be renewed annually.
According to deal, Pepsi’s Nepal’s representative Varun Beverage will provide Rs. 1.2m in cash and all the kinds including clothing for the tournaments while Standard Chartered will also provide Rs. 1.2m cash.
Nepali senior cricket team was sponsored by Surya Nepal and Standard Chartered for last three years. In 2007, Pepsi sponsored U-15 National League and U-15 team.
“I wish Nepal will become a good team that we can be proud of,” Ravi Kant Tajpuriya, the chairman of Varun Beverages said after the signing ceremony.
Standard Chartered CEO Sujit Mundul said that Nepali players have talents and hoped that their support would help them to showcase their talents.
“The support of Pepsi and Standard Chartered will help for success at the time when senior team is not performing as good as junior teams,” CAN president Binaya Pandey said. “I believe Nepal can play ODI by 2015.”
Pepsi is also the official sponsor of the ICC Development Porgram under which Nepal is hosting World Cricket League Divison V tournament in February, 2010.
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it is good sign for Nepali cricket. i think, it will take Nepali cricket in some step up.
sign ta pahila pani bhaka thiye? jati sign bhaye pani, binaj raj le nepal ko cricket chahi dhalne nai bhayo………………………………jo sanga pani hareko harey cha
yes i am agree with you. what did he do for nepali cricket expect dupe the money for own bank balance. he dont mind about nepali cricket . in his view nepal will play ODI upto 2015. BUT WE want to nepal will play ODI before that. day by day other team are getting success but we are also doing same from opposite, we are creating some extra record like nepal loose against malaysia ever first. this is new kind of record . dont mind guys nepal will reach WORLD CUP DIVISION 8 ROUND !!!!! HA!………..!HA!
we never get success after played no any domestic game. PANDEY LIKE TO TAKE OVER NEPALI CRICKET. sure, we will be playing wcl DIVISION 8 in 2015.
Financial support pouring in from Pepsi and Standard Bank is definitely good news. With this finance, I hope CAN would chalk out concrete programmes and conduct more cricket tournaments round the year; especially 20Twenty Cricket and One day games at different venues of the country apart from investing in cricket development programmes. Besides, CAN should make definite arrangements to take senior team to neighbouring countries for bilateral cricket matches to gain more exposure playing at competitive levels. Unless our senior team gets an opportunity to play real competitive games on different venues/conditions and against foreign teams (Afghanistan, UAE, HKG, Indian/Pakistani/Sri Lankan/Bangladeshi club and district level teams) regularly, we cannot expect our team to win international tournaments. Further, though we may take pride saying in age-groups, we are cut above the rest amongst non-test playing countries in South East Asia region, the glaring fact is unless our senior team starts winning major tournaments and qualify further, our dream of gaining One-Day Status and playing in WORLD CUP will just remain a pipedream. Even in the days of Ex-President, Mr. Jay Kumar Nath Shah, his oft-repeated emphasis was seeing Nepali senior team playing in a World Cup and gaining One-Day Status, unfortunately his dream could not see the light of the day, though his long tenure at the helm of CAN ended for good. Now, our respectable CAN president, Mr. Binaya Pandey’s belief of Nepal playing ODI by 2015, though sounds optimistic it will really take some immediate and tangible efforts to realise this elusive pipedream…As merely dreaming and actually realizing it are two different perspectives. So, I hope Mr. Pandey takes appropriate steps to realise his cherished dream in his tenure.
By the way, at a time when Nepal Tourism Board has promulgated NTY 2011 with an aim of attracting hundred and thousands of visitors in the envisaged year and with the advent of new airlines operating from Nepal, why does not CAN take an initiative and approach Nepal Tourism Board and organize Airlines Cricket Tournament like the one we had in 2003 A.D? This would certainly boost cricket-tourism and have double benefits for the country and cricket game as well. If a bloke like Mr. Abdul Rahman Sheikh Bukhatir could transform a desert region into a most cricket tournament organizing venue why not our country, the virtual last Shangri-La with its exotic beauty and splendid weather conditions could make it happen in Nepal. For this endeavour, cricket loving NRN expatriates could play a contributing role, if approached strategically.
Some more money going into the pockets of CAN!!! What a tragedy for the players.