UPDATED ON MARCH 25: Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced the national team for the ACC Trophy Elite Cup cricket tournament scheduled for March 29 to April 9 in Kuwait.
The selection committee headed by Arun Kumar Satyal named Paras Khadka the skipper. Others in the team are: Shakti Gauchan, Dipendra Chaudhary, Sharad Vesawkar, Amrit Bhattarai, Gyanendra Malla, Mehaboob Alam,Basanta Regmi, Binod Bhandari, Binod Das, Sanjam Regmi, Mahesh Chettri, Anil Mandal and Rahul Kumar BK.
Those named as alternative players are Pradeep Airee, Subhash Khakurel and Naresh Budair.
Earlier, CAN had announced a 20-member preliminary squad for the training including three other members – Avaya Rana, Prithu Baskota and Dhirendra Bahadur Chand.
According to CAN, the closed camp training for the squad begins on March 22.
Nepal are drawn in Group A with the defending champions Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuwait and Oman. Other teams in the tournament are UAE, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Bahrain and Bhutan.
In 2008 ACC Trophy in Malaysia, Nepal finished fourth after losing to UAE in semifinal and Afghanistan in the third-place playoff.