Category Archives: Fan Corner

BY SANJIB PAUDEL Wow! Our national cricket team is really doing well and making all of Nepali proud, united and happy. It is also making our country famous worldwide. Champions of ICC Division 4 and now in the final ACC Elite Trophy, back-to-back good performances have given all Nepali cricket fans hopes for the qualification to the 2014 T20 World Cup in Bangladesh and 2015 World Cup in Australia. If our team becomes successful to qualify for any World Cup, either 50-over or 20-over, it will be the first time for any Nepali sport team representing Nepal in any World Cup. It will be the greatest achievement and matter of pride for all of us. But I wonder if our… Read More

BY NITESH REGMI I always thought there were some similarities between Sri Lankan pace bowler Chaminda Vaas and our own Mehboob Alam. I don’t know if anyone of you has ever realized the same. I am not much aware about the run-up but I feel the throwing action bit similar. Once I had sent message to Mehboob Alam saying brother you bowl like Vaas and bat like Chanderpaul, he laughed and thanked me for the compliment. Left arm pace bowlers by nature, both of them are masters of swinging the ball specially bringing the ball back to the right hander. Alam has taken record ten wickets against Mozambique to bowl them out for 19 runs in 14.5 overs. Chaminda Vaas… Read More

BY BIKALPA GAUTAM Once again we have promised a lot; and once again we have failed to deliver and returned empty handed. I know that apart from Malaysia, other opponents in the group (India and Pakistan) are the cricketing powerhouses, who have won the U19 World Cup a couple of times each. I also know that expecting our boys to win against them is asking for impossible to happen. But still, being a Nepali cricket nut, I was expecting at least some serious fight back. What really amused and, more importantly, made me angry was that very little has been done by Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) to address the age-old problem of Nepali cricket – the batting. Failure of… Read More

BY JASHANPREET SINGH GILL When Nepal went into the ICC World Twnety20 Qualifiers they were the bottom most seeded teams. All the teams were had played Div 3 or above, Nepal had the highest as Div 4. Nepal was considered a better team in the ODI format and were not expected to make much impact in the T20 format But the team under the new Dynamic coach Pubudu Dassanayke surely exceeded all the expectation. To start with they came 7th in the tournament and in the process defeated teams like former World Cup semi finalists Kenya, Former World Cup team Bermuda, along with Div 2 teams PNG, HK and Div 3 (Now 4) team Denmark. The team had many positives… Read More

By Janak Raj Bhatta Two incidents, with a huge roar and significance happened to the Nepali Cricket scene last week or so, which I feel shows our value for cricket. Daughter of Prime minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai was ‘almost’ appointed as the member of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). There were rumors of heavy pressures from prime minister reported in many of the daily papers, so that, the member secretary of National sports council Yuvaraj Lama recommended her to be appointed as the member of CAN. Nepal’s one of the first generation all-rounders (at least I think so), Shakti Gauchan, took four wickets including a remarkable hat-trick (first for Nepali national team) during Nepal’s victory over Denmark. Nepal was playing… Read More

BY JASHANPREET SINGH GILL When I heard the name of the new coach it told me everything that is expected from him. If we have a little knowledge of Sanskrit, then Dassanayake means Dassa (Ten) – Nayake (Heroes) which corresponds to creating 10 heroes (1 failure per match is human). This is what Nepal would be expecting from him. He needs to create 10 heroes who will guide Nepal to level of success never seen before. Will Dassanayake deliver the Das Nayaks?

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.” -Mark Twain The Climate for the tournament will surely be electrifying which most of the Associate Players may not be lucky enough to see but the weather in Kathmandu will surely favor a few. The 2 times champion Afghanistan and the hosts Nepal both will definitely will get an Advantage from the weather. If we look at the average maximum and minimum temperature it will say it all As we can see in the coldest month in Asia only 3 capitals i.e. Kathmandu, Kabul and Thimpu are in the temperate zone and rest are in the tropical zone. The max temperature in December is 19.4 C and min is just… Read More