Gyanendra to lead Nepal in SAG
Gyanendra Malla will lead the Nepali cricket team in the South Asian Games next year, the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced on Sunday.
CAN also named 18 players for the event to be played from January 29 to February 8, 2010 in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Other members of the team include Amrit Bhattarai, Chandra Sawad, Binod Bhandari, Naresh Budair, Subash Khakurel, Lokendra Chanda and Prithu Baskota.
Rupesh Srivastav, Bhuwan Karki, Anil Mandal, Akash Gupta, Amit Shrestha, Rom Shrestha, Pradeep Sapkota, Pradeep Airee, Anupam Singh and Sagar Pun are other members in the team.
The team consists of players who are under 23 years old as per the rules of the SAG. The national selection committee headed by Arun Kumar Aryal named the team.
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I was visiting Nepal Back in March-April of this year and I was able to organize Rautahat FM T20 tournament in Pipara Bhalohiya. I was surprised after looking at Anil Mandal’s man of the match performance. I announced Rs. 500 per six and Rs. 1000 per clean bold. Luckily Anil Mandal was able to maintain 2 massive sixes and I feel really proud to provide the prize for his tremendous performance. Now I feel really glad that he is included in the squad. I will look forward for his better performance throughout the tournament and establish Nepal’s new records. Good Luck Guys! btw Congratulations! Gyanendra for becoming a new captain. Remember! every Nepalese cricket lovers have lots of hope from you so please do not break our heart.
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Mukesh Jha
i am not in favour of giving Gyanendra Malla the captaincy,as he was the captain of the U/19 team that broke the records after record in the last ACC U/19 Elite Cup,though he is fantastic crickter as a player only,but about giving leadership to him,CAN should have looked at the result under his captaincy also.
Under Gyanendra’s captaincy Nepal lost for the first time in ACC U/19 event against any team,since losing to Bangladesh in 1999 in the final of ACC U/19.Nepal was beaten by Honkong in that match.Until that match Nepal was king in age group in ACC level among non-test nations.
Forget that last league match lost,there was another very big waiting in nepal’s way.Nepal couldn’t save it’s last 4 back to back ACC U/19 title as it lost to Afghanistan in the crucial semifinal match.This was a huge deafeat ,a heart breaking one for the nepali cricket and it’s followers.By this result Nepal couldn’t reach the final of the tournament for the first time since it was held first time in 1997.Morever,Nepal misses the chances for playing in the U/19 World Cup due to this result.This is the first instant Nepal isn’t playing U/19 World Cup in the last 10 years.
Though the responsibilty goes to all players and the CAN for this disappointing result,the captain is the first one to take the responsibilty of the defeat, the truth that CAN was the same as it was before and as commented by many on earlier news,the captain was new one and he couldn’t deliver the team.
Big cricketing months coming up for Nepal, SAG and WCL 5. 2009 overally was not a satisfing year altogether for the cricket development. Hope Nepal will start the new season with positive approach.
About the meadia hype about the selection for SAG and all, I personally dont feel good about the activities and approach going on. Nepal cricket administration I feel is not conscious about the awareness of the priority. I do agree that all the games are vital. But the developing cricketing nation like ours should prefer WCL to SAG. You are losing diamonds when u are busy collecting stones. You have WCL in one month or so and you are the host too… and you are preparing for SAG. Well sounds disgusting. I do agree that SAG is an international event too, and you have to prepare for it also but it seems as if that there is no any preparation for the WCL. No mentioning about the closed camp and everything for the WCL 5 yet, when the event is almost knocking the door. I sometimes feel that CAN thinks that WCL 5 is in 2011 February and not in 2010 February. Well time to get up….. its morning in here!!!
About the captainship being given to Gyanendra for the SAG is obvious. CAN has no choice then to unanymously give it to him. He is the player with a bit of experience. Well good luck captain!!! God bless you…!
If they failed in batting here then they will 100% lose their WCL div. in Nepal.
anyway gud luck guyz. i heard dat team is u-23 isn’t paras u-23 as he was leading u-19 team b4 2 year.
I think we mainly focus on our batting nad its a big oppurtunity to clash with giant teams like india pak which obviously be hrlpful for upcoming division 5 good luck.
I think it is a better idea to give captaincy to Gyanendra Malla.I think he will gather some exprience and also will be ready and able to lead Nepal in future and in bigger tournaments like WC Qualifiers. Thoug SAF games is also a big one, players U-23 are only allowed. So, I think it is the best idea to give leading work to Gyanendra.All the best Nepal for upcoming SAF games and also WC Qualifiers Division 5.