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.
Two wickets in two balls put Singapore on backfoot after they start well to go 21/0. C R Suryawanshi was run out for 14 off 8 balls and Buddhika Mendis went next ball – the first wicket to former captain Binod.
Singaporean innings lacked the partnership as spinners took the charge. Basant Regmi and Shakti Gauchan got a wicket each while off-spinner Sanjam grabbed three wickets for 19 runs in 4 overs.
Topscorer of the innings SK Sansua made 25 in 22 balls with a four and two sixes while other major contributors were CR KUmarage (18) and Pramodh Raza (13). Binod ended the innings with two wickets in the last over to finish 3/21 in 3.4 overs.
Mehboob Alam tried to play patiently to make up for his failures when Nepal began the chase. But he was undone by Sansua after scoring 2 in 7 balls.
Dipendra and Naresh, who was playing his first innings as he did not bat in his debut match against Bahrain yesterday, partnered unbeaten 77 runs for second wicket to take Nepal to victory.
Dipendra scored 49 not out in 40 balls with four boundaries and a six. He matched his own and nation’s highest individual score in T20. He had scored unbeaten 49 against Qatar in 2007.
Naresh made 32 in 39 balls with three fours.
In other matches played on the day, UAE and Afghanistan entered the final with easy victories. UAE defeated Oman by six wickets after bowling them out for 50 in 15 overs with Moin Shahid taking 5 wickets.
Afghanistan beat Kuwait by 8 wickets after bolwing them out for 115 in 18.1 overs. Nowraz Mangal scored unbeaten 51 for the winners.
Malaysia took the seventh position beating Saudi Arabia by 5 runs after scoring 201. Qatar beat Hong Kong by 7 wickets to take ninth place and Bahrain beat China by 93 runs to take 11th position.
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thw win is not enough, dias must take moral responsibilty for poor performance AND PLAYERS MUST B DISCIPLINE. PARAS must not make mistake as he did against baharain as made by Binod in past by giving the bowls to ‘sinker of match’ like shakti as he did ACC 3 days match where we lost the chance to qualify in ICC league!
Fifth place
… better perform well in the upcoming wcl div. 5 … cheers
Fifth position, not enough. We should have finished at least 3rd. But it’s not the coach, captain or players who are to be blamed. It’s the fault of CAN. How can we meet the standards of other teams like UAE and Afganisthan with so little international exposure, almost nil infrastructure and very few tournaments? On these grounds, we must appreciate our players’ performance.
yeah i do agree with you, its not fault of roy dias and players. I think Binay raj pandey should be sacked first. Roy dias is inspiring coach, what he can do if CAN is not showing interest in development of neplese cricket
hey guys! Does any body know email address or phone number of Binay raj pandey? I think, we all fan of Nepali cricket should unite together and email him? Lets force him to do something. At any cost we should win WCLD 5, I found that USA has already started preparation for it………….
The tournament should be replayed.Our guys have finally found their rhythm and form.
There is no reason for us to be in a celebratory mood over Team Nepal’s fifth place finish. At the end of the day it proved merely academic. Whatever good work came from the boys at the fag end was of no avail because it did not serve our cause much to our chagrin.
We went into the championship with soaring hopes, and to prove the world that we are far from finished.
Our mission was plain and simple- to redeem ourselves by qualifying for the Asian Games, which, unfortunately did not happen. Obviously, our inability to win crunch matches when it mattered most largely contributed to our downfall.
More importantly, a team has to function like a well oiled and serviced engine, otherwise, we suffer .
Overall the team’s performance was mediocre. Clearly, we were badly exposed in the batting department.In other words, the batters totally failed to match the bowlers sterling performance throughout the championship.
We had our share of opportunities to inch closer towards our ultimate goal but failed to capitalize.
Admittedly to me it looked though the batters did not commit themselves and had not adequately done the spadework for the tournament. There is no excuse
for our debacle because we dug our own graves.
We have to take lessons from war torn Afghanistan who have reached the final despite challenging cricketing conditions than ours. Since their entry into world sports after going into a long hibernation they have made a strong and impressive comeback, something to envy about.
Cricket Association of Nepal ought to take a serious stock of the lackluster result and prepare the team for the next tournament accordingly. The association has to assess and rectify the team’s shortcomings in the broadest sense of the words. Simply changing the coach, players and overlooking the underlying factors is not the remedy.
The need of the hour is a honest and soul searching approach to seek answers .
bardan nd bantu it is easy to give”big talk” staying in america nd working at gas station…..u guys kno nepali cricket pretty much n there r lotts fan following u……why cant u guys go nd work for CAN…..why ur giving big talk…….we will support u,r u ready to work in CAN…..u hab experience,u hab votes power nd u hab willingness to make our country pride then why america nd why big talk….after ur studies come nd fight for making CAN better……
amir dai ur work is awesome…keep it up
A convincing 9 wicket victory over Singapore may have brought a whiff of balm to nursing hearts of Nepali cricket aficionados with a hope that in future assignments, our Senior Team with proper match practice facilities and other pertinent requirements, the team would perform consistently and win laurels for the country. In hindsight, one would realise the fact that, nearing the fag end of the tournament, our team started delivering goods and won matches. After initial defeats against Malaysia and Oman, Nepal registered wins against Kuwait/Qatar/Bahrain/Singapore – The equation played 6, won 4 and loss 2 is not a bad performance in an overall perspective. Alas! Had we had more competitive match practices prior to the tournament, the scenario might have been different reading……This is because, the more our team played matches the better our team’s performance came to the forefront later on. Encouragingly, the performances of Afghanistan and UAE throughout this tournament have been exceptional, though it is also true that they have mix-breed of players from the South East Asian Region; the fact is these 2 teams have made great strides forward being Non-Test Playing Countries irrespective of whatever the permutations. Considering this fact, we cannot ever continue yammering only if other South Asian Region Non-Test playing countries were disallowed to induct expatriate players into their sides, we would be better off since we play with our own-bred pure Nepali cricketers. Partially, it may be true. But still, we will have to compete according to the rules applied by ACC/ICC and win tournaments to acquire One-Day Status. Afghanistan, already with its stupendous performances at various international competitions, has gained One-Day Status until 2013 A.D., which is all the more encouraging and inspiring for other Non-Test Playing Countries and an exemplary to follow suit and ensure their own graduation for One-Day Status.
Coming back to Nepal’s future development programmes for its better performances, the following components will have to figure prominently and a mechanism to meet these requirements: – Proper infrastructure set-up, incentives for the players, regular national tournaments and exposure playing with the foreign teams on a regular basis (Matches against foreign teams on a bilateral basis). No doubt, Nepali players are highly talented, but for a talent to blossom fully it needs proper care and it should be groomed at all times and satisfy its pertinent requirements. On the contrary, if these requirements are not provided on a timely basis, no matter how talented you are, except for fleeting moments, your talent would wither with no trace!!!
Eventually, I, on behalf of all cricket aficionados, including myself; who got an opportunity to express their comments on this website, would like to thank Mr. Ujjwal Acharya and his buddies and related with this site. Besides, it was very interesting and had a wonderful experience with timely dissemination on Nepal’s performance wired by this website. Truly, the internet has been the mankind’s amazing invention of this century! Buddy, Ujjwal Acharya, you have done a great job! So, please keep up the tradition at all times. In addition, a word of praise all goes to contributors who have been sending in their comments; though some of them could have been palliated. I look forward to seeing you all in future tournament matches as well. Honestly speaking, Buddy Ujjwal Acharya’s notice pertaining to palliation of comments is an expedient endeavour. In a democratic world, we have freedom of speech, but it also entails certain accountability on our speech/action. So, the mechanism of checks and balances should be there to warn us and everybody comes within this parameter. Even in my case, if there have had been any wittingly or unwittingly comments disseminated, please excuse me and you have every right to delete it. Take care and Bye for the moment….. NAMASKAR………
Not bad. Keep the winning momentum going until wcl5. CAN should organise plenty of practice matches
They will definately keep the winning momentum..as there are no games between now and then..so no chance of losing..
je bho aaba ramri bho. tara div’5 ma chahi yasto hunu hundaina, kina bhane tyo 50 over ko game hune6a ra hamro nepal ma hundai6a. best of luck
its a big achivement to finish a tournament with a win . unfortunationally it was for the fifth place, we deserve more than that. so keep hard working and do better. more matches r required for our team if we want to step up. we need to improve our batting 100 to 120 runs in 20 20 cricket is never sounds better we need 180+ score in 20 20 format and 250+ in 50 over matches so i would like to request CAN to do some moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
well guys, if you work hard then obviously your work will be paid off so why not try in division 5 and get the massive chance getting to the higher level as AFGANISTHAN did in last year then best of luck round this time its our chance in our home crowd.