Tuesday, October 16, 2012

ACC Elite Cup Final Summary|Nepali Cricket On Move


Simplicity and composition are the greatest strength |Nepal Cricket Team

Simplicity is an adjective used to explain innocence. We are innocent in a sense that we know nothing more than playing a competitive game every day. We enter the final of two consecutive tournament and make to the final of both, not only we make to the final but also we become the winner of them. First we achieved division IV to enter division III and now its ACC Elite Cup2012.A cricketer field is a battle field for us. We don’t do unnecessary shouting’s rather than we simply play a silent game at first and start an uniform acceleration till the end from the mid over. In both bowling and bating we don’t depend upon a single players fielding and bowling changes are the most prominent thing that captain and coach has improved a lot since many games. Rotating the strike and backing up the players were the good features seen in the team.
               Holding this key for Nepal are the four pillars of Nepali team. The simplicity of this experienced veteran players have the influenced the youngsters coming in the senior level and the environment in the dressing room have changed significantly. As coach Dasanaike mentioned.”I simply restore the confidence which was lacking in the team”. Nepalese mixture of youth and experienced have changed the mode of playing style in the team. They look a good and confidence team either batting 1st order 2nd. They are unplayable at times and the confidence level at current matches no associates/affiliated member have.
            The team which lost momentum in the mid ways 3 to 4 years ago is currently running at the good form in all three departments an unbeaten win of division-IV aid their confidence sky high. With the confidence they entered ACC ELITE cup and with no surprise though as joint winner of the competition held their head high once again.
             It’s not always that we can take all good things only. The bad things must also be pointed out and their lose confidence was seen against Kuwait in which the opponent counter attacked and hammered the entire bowler. That match did mark little bit poor decision making of few players. We missed a genuine fast bowler at times and now we should be proud that our irregular bowlers too did a very good job to make us win this competition. But excellence shown by Shakti Gauchan and Basanta Regmi with bat and ball in many occasion make us proud their combination with the ball make like difficult for all of the team.
                     Similarly the father- son combination of skipper Paras and Gyanendra always played vital knock for the team always coming up with huge partnership and between them one always scores till the end. Paras proved his captaincy with bowling and fielding skills as well.
With the cameo from Paras, Pradeep Airee, Sharad Veshwakar and Prithu Baskota even also charmed along with the sparkling middle order. As a whole all the member performed as a team and their combined efforts took us today at that level whier we were dreaming since long. This make our task a little easier but more challenges must be overcome now and this little wonderers which we are achieving would count a little bit more when we will grasp and ODI status and play in the upcoming 2015 ICC world cup. Best wishes to all the team members and long congralution to all the supports and citizen of Nepal .Proud to be a Nepali Cricket Fan.

~A Nepali Cricket Fan

Friday, October 12, 2012

ACC ELITE CUP FINAL NEPAL VS UAE MATCH SUMMARY

ACC Elite Cup 2012 Final Nepal Vs UAE Match Summary

Nepal(SP Khakurel 55(74),SP Gauchan 3/36) Shared ACC Elite Cup 2012 with UAE(*Saqib Ali 101(103), Ahmed Raza 2/44) after the match is tied in Sharjah
Today at Sharjah, Elite Cup tested the best final in the history of Elite Cup.The very thrilling match which brought a lot of up and down for the both teams nearly takes the breathe of every players, fans and live viewers.
                Nepali skipper won the toss and elected to field first as Nepal have got strong bowling attack.At the beginning UAE bating seemed to be in trouble when they had loose Arshad Ali without scoring a single run and that of team,consequently they loose 4 wickets at just 70 runs in 20 overs.It was a day for the captain Khurraum Khan and Saqib Ali.Both of them controlled the whole inning and managed to make a grand total of 241 in the final.Khan scored 61 runs of 79 balls with 5 fours before he was send back to pavilion by Gauchan and Ali managed to score an unbeaten century.He scored 101 runs of 103 balls with 8 fours and 2 sixes and finally managed to drag the team score to competitive level. Nepali bowler seemed economical rather than successful today.They just succeed to take 6 wickets of the opponent among which Gauchan took 3, S Regmi took 1 and 2 of the batsman of UAE were run-out.


Score Board Nepali Team
                                                      
                            The target of 241 was given to Nepal in 50 overs where Nepal produced an excellent start.The first wickets partnership between Mandal and Khakurel was of 94 runs meantime team lost  Mandal with his personal score of 45 of 67 balls with 2 fours and 1 six.The tragedy of partner drag Khakurel along with him and thus he got to pavilion hiting 55(74).At this stage team total was of 106 in 24.3 overs so as it was thought Nepal would meet target easily but who knows, problems doesn't comes along with notification.The partnership between Captain and vice-captain creeped the team total to 165 but the star bowler Raza Hasha came in attack taking two wickets of  Paras and G.Malla in consecutive balls.Team seemed critical at that moment but S.Vesawkar batted exceptionally well, he scored unbeaten 38 runs of 36 balls with a four and 2 sixes rescuing Nepal team till the last.
                                          The most thrilling part of the match was final over where Nepal was requiring 12 runs of it and Gauchan was on strike who was going to face S.Silva.The first three balls of last over brought only 2 runs and hope to win was nearly fading along with setting sun in Sharjah, but fortunately Gauchan hits a massive six over the long and brought  required runs at 4 for just 2 balls.This humongous six gave a water to a dead man and made him wake up.The second last ball brought 2 runs leaving 2 runs to score from the last ball of last over.Unfortunately Gauchan the the hero of today's match managed to score 1 run and got back to pavilion while tried to bring the second one to win the match, finally match ended in tie and both team share the Cup.

Players to watch

Saqib is the Man of the match for his brilliant century and Paras Khadka, the Man of the series for his consistent performances with the bat and the ball.

Man of the Tournament Nepali Skipper and All rounder Paras Khadka have scored all together 291 runs, taken 7 catches and altogether 9 wickets in the tournament.
SP Gauchan remained as the highest wicket taker of the tournament with his 15 wickets with an economy of just 3.18.
B Regmi took 10 wickets in the tournament with an economy of 3.81.
G Malla remained as second highest scorer from Nepal.He scored 212 runs and AK Mandal remained as third highest scores with his 200 runs.

********** Congratulation to Both the team for winning the ACC ELITE CUP 2012************

Thursday, October 11, 2012

ACC ELITE CUP 2012 FINAL NEPAL VS UAE|PRE-MATCH ANALYSIS|WATC LIVE SCORE UPDATES

Nepal Deserves Win Against UAE According to Current Teams Analysis 

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Team UAE Analysis

UAE played their first match against Nepal in ACC Ellite Cup 2012 but they fail to produce win against the so called mast deserving and consistence team of the tournament i.e Nepal.They lost their match by 4 wickets but completely kept Nepali players under control.Their every aspects were crystal clear when they came to play their first match.The over all performance was satisfactory but to produce win in cricket you need to expose well against the team you are playing and finally win counts rather then satisfaction.So some depression were granted to them in their first match but they come back in the tournament with their usual form and won every game in the league with huge margin and wickets to qualify for the semi being the group runner up in head to head against Nepal.The comeback of the home team in league matches have brought joy in fans and a better confidence in the players as a result they beat the strongest Affiliated and Associate team i.e Afghanistan in Semi-final in respectably and easy manner.They restrict Afghan in just 70 runs and won the match by 8 wickets to enter the Final.This win against Afghan have given them a great belief and mental strength in the players so that to built the strong foundation for the final against Nepal.
Players To Watch from UAE
                  UAE is a team with a complete package .If we talk about back bone of the team then its the pool of turners they have.They have almost 6 spinners and have got bowler like Ahmed Raza who have played just 4 match and capture 12 wickets with an economy of just 3.40 , Arshad Ali(The best known all rounder of UAE) who have 8 wickets in his pocket with and economy of 3.94 and Khurram Khan(skipper) and 7 wickets in the tournament. 
                         The weakest part of the team is seems bating this time but not as weakest as the word says because these batsman like Mohammad Azam(125 runs) , Shaiman Anwar(174 runs ),Saqib Ali(121 runs) and Arshad Ali(97 runs) along with Abdul Ifthikar(146 runs) are the best known batsman of UAE.So the final conclusion bring us that UAE is a well mantained team with Unorthodox and orthodox players.If they play in well form they can bring down any team of Associated Nation so these player we mentioned are the best among the UAE side and the players to watch in Final.

Team Nepal Analysis

The current Nepali team is thought to be one of the finest team in the Associated and Affiliated nation.The main back bone of the team are Spinners,the Midas Skipper Paras Khadka and the coach Pubudu Dassanayake. Nepal have won 9 out of 10 last matches and are strong orthodxy team. In the thrilling semi final they have beaten (The team lead by the former God Father of Nepal Cricket Roy Dyas) Malaysia by 21 runs and entered the final of ACC Elite Cup 2012 to play with UAE for the second time.Before this Nepal have already played final of elite cup with UAE in 2002 when Nepal have lose that match, but since then time have changed in drastic manner and almost no one are in the team who have played that match from both side. Nepal have already won their League match against UAE last week in the same stadium Sharjah in the same time as final is going to be played, so the win against them have made the side quit comfortable to play with greater hope but hope have got nothing to do in the field and its all relay upon the performance of team game.Nepal have been very consistence in the tournament except one match were they have lost against Kuwait failing to defend a high total of 280.The match they have played against Kuwait have taught the team that the game is not always won by spinners and team always requires fast bowler to hold the breath in the time when spinners fails to produce break through so as Amrit bhatrai have prove it. He have just played three matches and manage to take 5 wickets, being the most economical bowler of Nepal with an economy of 2.90 in this tournament. 
Players to watch from Nepal
            The spinner have again proven them in this tournament and among them Shakti Gauchan and Basanta Regmi have proven them in every tournament Nepal have played in the foreign land.There is no doubt they are currently the best spinner available in the Asia and i guess they can prove if they get proper ex-poser to better test playing teams.Gauchan is currently within the fourth rank among the heighest wicket taket in the tournament. He have already taken 12 wickets with and economy of 3.08 and the other fat littke master Basanta regmi have claim 10 wickets with and economy of 3.43.The under-19 captain Prithu Baskota who have played a match winning game against Malaysia have scored 34 runs and have taken 3 wickets in the last math proving his better comeback in the team so that to sealed the mouth of the criticizers.
             The main player to watch will be the Nepali skipper and the orthodoxy player Paras Khadka who is currently the highest run scorer of the tournament.He manage to make 260 runs with an incredible average of 86.66 along  with strike rate of 109.70 including a century( and missed one against malaysia scoring 89 runs) and couple of half century. He has been the top 5 most wickets takers of the tournament i.e 9wikts with an economy of 4.71.He is also the most catchers of Nepali team with total catch of 5 catches so i had liked better call him Midas of Nepali Cricket Team.Batsman like G.malla(180 runs ), AK Mandal(156 runs ),SP Khakurel (84 runs ), P Airee(64 runs) and Prithu Baskota(98 runs) are also the players to be watched in the Final.The current combination of the team as if is the best side in the tournament and thus is considered to be the strong Representative of the CUP. 
                                                                                             So in the upcoming Final, UAE will be in the target of repeating history again by taking the revenge of league match while Nepal will be in the way of making history.

Match Venue and Time details|ACC Elite Cup Final Nepal Vs UAE


Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Established 1982
Capacity 27,000
Floodlights Yes
End names Pavilion End, Sharjah Club End
Home team United Arab Emirates
Match Time

Oct 12, 2012 (09:30 local | 05:30 GMT | 11:00 IST)

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

ACC ELITE CUP 2012|NEPAL VS MALAYASIA MATCH SUMMARY |AFGHANISTAN VS UAE MATCH SUMMARY

ACC Elite Cup 2012 | NEPAL VS MALAYSIA MATCH SUMMARY

 Nepal(P.Khadka 89(96),P.Baskota 3/47) won Malaysia(*Suhan Kumar 43(51),Nazril Tahman 4/37) by 21 runs and enter the final of ACC Elite Cup 2012.
Man of the match Paras Khadka of Nepal who scored 89 runs and took one wickets.
Nepal will play its final with the winner of first semi-final i.e UAE who won against Afghanistan by 8 wickets.
Nepal's Innings

ACC Elite Cup 2012 | AFGHANISTAN VS UAE MATCH SUMMARY 

One of the excellent team of Associated and affiliated nation and who is currently in division I i.e Afghanistan is out of ACC Elite cup after loosing to UAE by 8 wickets.After winning the toss Afghan have chosen to bat and it was really a day for UAE, they send the whole afgani troops in just 70 runs.
                                                              UAE bowler bowled exceptionally and they help maintaining the status never loose against Afghan. Only two batsman of Afghan manage to score double figure in the match they were Karim Sadiq who scored 12 runs of 24 balls with 2 fours and Javed Ahmadi scored 29 runs playing 65 balls with 3 fours.Star batsman like Nabi , Naib and Mangal who have played groundbreaking game against the world best teams like England and India fail to score double figure as a result they just manage to score the lowest total of their team in ACC Elite cup of just 70 runs and also the lowest total in their history.Previously they have lowest total of 88 against Kenya in 2010. Afghanistan are the defending champion of the previous ACC Elite Cup and are also the runner-up of ICC T20 Qualifier which was held in UAE.This is a really a humiliating defeat for the Afghan and also the fail to maintain their status. So they say its cricket and its a gentleman game anythings can happen in the field if you fail to maintain your game and compactly a team game.
Afghanistan inning Vs UAE
                                           UAE reached the final of ACC Elite Cup 2012 after defeating them.They manage to score a low target of 71 in just 23.4 overs loosing 2 wickets.Haroon Iftikhar played and not out inning scoring 34 runs of 64 balls with 3 fours and Shaiman Anwar scored 22 of 46 balls with 2 fours and 1 six.Thus UAE qualified for the final and will play its match with the winner of second semi-final i.e Nepal.
Nepal Vs UAE Final Match Venue
The league match between UAE and Nepal was won by Nepal with 4 wickets.

ACC ELITE CUP 2012 FINAL|NEPAL VS UAE MATCH VENUE


LAST MEET BETWEEN NEPAL AND UAE IN ACC ELITE CUP FINAL WAS IN 2002

 Nepal have played Elite Cup Final with UAE ten years before in 2002.Nepal had lost the last played final match of ACC Elite Cup with UAE, but this time situation is quit different and Nepal have already won the league match against UAE last week by 4 wickets. So in the upcoming final UAE will be in the target of repeating history again by taking the revange of league match while Nepal will be in the way of making history.
***********************Best of luck to both the finalist UAE and Nepal********************************

















 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

ELITE CUP 2012|SEMI-FINAL NEPAL VS MALAYSIA |WATCH LIVE SCORE UPDATES

Second Semi-Final: Malaysia v Nepal at Abu Dhabi, Oct 10, 2012

Malaysia squad

Abdul Rashid, Ahmed Faiz, Anwar Arudin, Anwar Rahman, KH Durrani, Faizal Abu Hasan, Faruq Hakimin, Nazril Rahman, Norwira Zazmie, Aminuddin Ramly, Shafiq Sharif†, Suhan Kumar(C), Suharril Fetri, Syazrul Idrus

Nepal squad

P Airee, P Baskota, B Bhandari, A Bhattarai, BK Das, SP Gauchan, B Karki, P Khadka*, SP Khakurel†, G Malla, AK Mandal, B Regmi, S Regmi, S Vesawkar

LIVE UPDATES

For live updates and score click here  
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Nepal Vs Malaysia ACC Elite Cup 2012: Match Venue

Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Nepal Vs Malaysia ACC Elite Cup 2012: Match details

Umpires Iftikhar Ali (Kuwait) and Riaz Chaudhry (Kuwait)
Match referee Mohammad Ali

ACC ELITE CUP 2012|NEPAL VS HONGKONG MATCH SUMMARY|NEPAL WON BY 125 RUNS



ACC ELITE CUP 2012 |NEPAL VS HONG KONG MATCH DETAIL

Nepal Enter ACC Elite Cup 2012 Semi-Final

Nepal (P.nKhadka*61(54), B.Regmi 3/20) wo against Hong Kong(B.Hayat 27(50), Nizakat Khan 2/34) by 125 runs to enter Semi-Final of ACC Elite Cup 2012.
Man of the Match Paras Khadka  (Captain of Nepal).

Paras Khadka is the Second highest scored to the tournament.He have scored  171 runs in 4 inning with and increadable average of 85.50 and have strike rate of  121.27.
The third highest wicket taker of the tournament is Sakti Gauchan, who have taken all together 10 wickets in the tournament with an average economy of 3.01 and have best of 5/32.
Nepal enter semi final being group B winner and will play its match tomorrow against group A runner-up i.e Malaysia .The big confusion for the fans might be that, Nepal should have to play tomaorrow's match with  Afganistan but the rule is that, if two teams have eqaul point table then the head to head(Their League match) is count.That means the winner of the previous league match between two team who reached semi will play with the runner-up of the other group.
         
          Both the teams Nepal and UAE from group B have equal points i.e 6 (Refer the side point table on the blog) so In our case the league match between Nepal and UAE  was won by Nepal so Nepal will be playing with the runner-up of the Group A i.e Malaysia.

The match Nepal will play tomorrow against Malaysia will be the intreating one because the winner of tomorrow's match will play final with the winner of the second-semi final match i.e between UAE and Afghanistan.The match between Afgan and UAE is also gonna be challenging and interesting one. Afghanistan have never won any 50 overs match against UAE so UAE will be playing to protect their pride and Afghanistan will play to make history and to maintain their unbeaten to enter Final.Hope the winner of the match will get chance to play with Nepal(Optimistic thought of Nepalese fan).   
Tomorrow's Match Schedule.

First Semi-Final ACC Elite Cup 2012|UAE Vs Afghanistan

05:30 GMT | 09:30 Local  
11:00 UAE v Afghanistan at GCA1(Global Cricket Academy)

Second Semi-Final ACC Elite Cup 2012| Nepal Vs Malaysia   

05:30 GMT | 09:30 Local 
11:00 IST NEPAL VS MALAYSIA at Al Dhaid, Asian Cricket Council Trophy Elite

******************BEST OF LUCK TO NEPALI CRICKET TEAM****************

Sunday, October 7, 2012

ACC Elite Cup 2012|Nepal Vs Saudi Arabia Match Summary |Nepal Won Saudi Arabia By 9 wicket

Great ComeBack For Nepalese Team|Match Summary Nepal Vs Saudi Arab Elite Cup

Nepal(G Malla 61(23), S Gauchan 2/14,B.Regmi 3/29 ) won Saudi Arab 131/48.2( Iftikar Ali 28(47) , Mohammad Mohsin 27(68) ) by 4 wickets

The Great comeback for Nepalese team so that to keep their hope alive for the semi-final in ACC Elite Cup 2012 after winning today's match against Saudi Arab. Saudi Arab who have lost their previous two matches loose the toss and were compelled to bat first.As has been said to win a toss is half to win a match.The mistake done by Nepali skipper Paras to choose bating in the previous match against Kuwait despite their strength is recovered in this match choosing fielding in this match.
G Malla
                  Arab give a slow start with loosing their early wickets make them self in pressure so that they cant make a big total and were restricted to a low total of 131 in 48.2 overs.Sometime at the moment its seems like they were playing some test match making just 1 or 2 in each over.The star of the saudi inning was Iftikar Ali who scored 28 runs of 47 with 2 four and 1 six and is supported by the Mohammad Mohsin who scored 27 of 68 balls playing almost 11.2 overs was send back to pavlion by Gauchan.The slow but very steady inning come to an end at 48.2 overs making total of 131, producing a target of 132 in 50 overs for Nepal.
Nepali bowlers came back in their actual form since pitch was also in favour of the turners.The most economical bowler of Nepal and of todays match i.e Gauchan who took 2 wickets bowling 10 overs and giving just 14 runs with an economy of 1.40.The skipper who bowled the first over of the match also did favolous job taking 3 wickets with and economy of 4.20. The usual star spinner Basanta Regmi took 3 wickets bowling 10 overs with an economy of 2.40.The others bowler such as young Bhuwan Karki and U-19 Skipper Prithu Baskota also supported bowling line up of Nepal.Karki took 2 wickets while Prithu misses to get.

Nepal's Score Card against Saudi Arabia

               Nepal had a huge pressure to win this match with big margin or better to say with good run rate to be in race for the semi and thus the match supported Nepalese.They won the match in just 13.1 over with an runrate of  10.10.Nepalese orthodox batsman Ganandra malla played an record breaking innnig scoring 61 runs of just 23 balls with 13 four and 1 six.He just took 3 runs by running.He scored half century in just 18 balls.He is supported by opener Khakurel (35(31))who scored 35(31) runs and mandal scored 29(52).  
Thus nepal won the match in just 13.2 over.Thus a comprehensive win for Nepal as they win with 221 balls to spare. They come back into contention with this huge win after they loose to defend and average target of 281 against a comparatively weak team Kuwait.Best of luck for the Nepali Cricket Team for the upcoming Match against HongKong.
Good Bless Nepal and Nepali Cricket Team. 

Saturday, October 6, 2012

ACC ELITE CUP 2012|NEPAL VS KUWAIT|FIRST INNING ANALYSIS|LIVE UPDATES

First inning analysis Nepal Vs Kuwait|Elite Cup 2012

A new day and another new start which marked a huge improvement of a well deserve team full of class batsmans.After winning toss captain Paras Khadka had no hesitation to bat 1st in a dry and flat wicket of U.A.E. A slow but steady start was given by Openers Subash Khakurel and Anil Mandal. A lot of dot ball was left alone in the preliminary stage might be for the construction of a strong foundation for a huge total.But           
Paras Khadka After his Century

one way traffic of playing same defensive ploy was not letting to go anywhere but brought an end to the touch slow but careful innings of Anil Mandal not before Khakurel and himself made a relatively great foundation seeing from this point of time.Khakurel and Mandal both played good hands scoring         
     Accelaration was needed at the middle order with the calmness and surity of not loosing a wicket and the same happened while gyanendra malla and Paras khadka did.A splendid and a good plan of respecting good balls by taking a single and smashing the loose ball back to the boundary fence worked for Nepal.Both did the toughest job with so easy and flamboyant style that the team expecting somewhere close to 250 got to 280. Thanks to Prithu Baskota who proved us and our criticism with his bat playing a cameo of 37 runs from 18 balls when team needed that the most.Captain Khadka continued his Titanic innings and more importantly 
the Titanic inning had a good control on the brake and motion resulting in an unflattering and standard captain's inning of 106 from just 77 balls.He had four huge sixes and boundary scored in almost all directions.Kuwait looked containing Nepal under 240 at one stage but Gyanendra,Paras and prithu got rid of all the ball thrown to them and took a total to mammoth 280.Aire's 11 is also a part of great day with the bat.Now it depends upon spinners and pace batteries to make a huge win to boost the net runrate that would matter the most for Nepal.While kuwait had to bat with a sense of urgency and calmness as the required runrate must be maintained. Hope for the match to go in the intresting way for the both side.
Bating Score Card of Nepal






Stay connected for the Summary of Whole match Nepal Vs Kuwait Elite Cup 2012.

Friday, October 5, 2012

ACC Elite Cup 2012|Kuwait Vs Nepal| Pre-Match Analysis|Live Score Update

Match Detail Nepal Vs Kuwait Elite Cup 2012   

Kuwaitian Side

Loosing the previous match Kuwait will definitely have some pressure but sometimes pressure gives us some strength as we have seen in George Bailey(Australian Captain) playing good inning for the first time in T20 world Cup hitting some big shorts and playing Responsible inning against West Indies so as the loosing of Kuwait against Honk Kong in their last match might have given them commutable Strength. Some of the players of Kuwait have gain better strength and confident in the last match against HK such as Kashif Sharif who have taken 1 wicket with an economy of 3.75 and played responsible inning hitting 29 runs.The other player would be Mohammad Amin who have scored 40 runs and Hisham Mirza who scored 24 runs against HK. The Kuwait Bowler doesn't seem very powerful than that of Nepal because the remained quite silent in their previous match.

Nepalese Side


                          Nepalese Squad is full of turners and orthodoxy players.The most amazing thing about the team is that every player have got class in their respective field.If we talk about bating side we have got three most orthodoxy batsman such as skipper Paras Khadka, Gyanendra malla , Subash Khakurel and even pressure holder passionate batsman Anil Mandal. Really its a great piece of success to to have class in Associate Nation, even if we look at the best Non Test playing team currently of Asia i.e Afghanistan they have full of Unorthodox batsman and they are holding the team tight right now.The most important things about the class in any team like us is that the existing class will take team to long distance in the future and also it would be helpful to produce the same background in the future. Thus the current Nepali squad is thought to be the best squad in the associated nation but this squad lacks something which is fulfilling through the time. If we talk about the Nepali bowling side they lack some pacemakers but though success always touch their field and this success is resulted but turners. Nepalese side have really and without any doubt got the world class spinners who have been consistence through out their career playing for Nepal.The players like Shakti Gauchan, Basanta Regmi and Sanjam Regmi are undoubtedly the best spinners of Asia.Its seems like oh! Asia might not be but definitely I would like to call it Asia because these boys are the best spinners of Asia thought they might not be seen by the world and we can do the judgment because we have seen the world of spinners of class and every ground.According to last U-19 world cup played by Nepal in Australia we have seen some best boys doing best spin but being a spinner and to be included in national team you need to have great patience in Nepal because they always contain best spinner in their side.Hard luck to R.Vishwakarma and Sagar Pun. Pace makers like B Das and Amrit Bhattarai also have fulfill the gap of pacers in Nepal, They are supported by medium pacers like Khadka and part time KP of Nepal(as pointed by ACC scorer in ESPN) Airee.So with some of missing discription above makes a complete Nepali National Team and the best team even existed the the squad.Hope they will bring some good result today Against Kuwait and also they will get what they want.
                            Nepal is currently promoted to division III and Kuwait is in division VI so as we guess match might be one sided but who knows its cricket and their in the field you have to play if you want win one intresting thing about the AL DHAID ground is that Nepal have won the last match played there vs Bahrain by 7 wickets with 12 balls remaining in T20 game(2009/10) where Shakti Gauchan have given 26 runs in 2 overs.
Head to Head in Elite Cup Nepal Vs Kuwait 

NEPAL -5 , KUWAIT - 0 
ACC TROPHY 2002 => NEPAL won by 124 Runs 
WC Quallifer 2005   => NEPAL won by 5 Wickets 
ACC TROPHY 2006  => NEPAL won by 6 Wickets
 ACC TROPHY 2008  => NEPAL won by 7 Wickets 
ACC TROPHY 2010  => NEPAL won by 8 Wickets
source:-Nepali Cricket Fans on Facebook

Nepali Squad|Nepal Vs Kuwait Elite Cup 2012   

 P Airee, P Banskota, B Bhandari, A Bhattarai, BK Das, SP Gauchan, B Karki, P Khadka*, SP Khakurel, G Malla, AK Mandal, B Regmi, S Regmi, S Vesawkar
The playing 11 might contain some change then the previous one.....->Guess

Kuwait Squad|Nepal Vs Kuwait Elite Cup 2012   

Abdullah Akhunzada, Abid Mushtaq, Ali Shahzad, Y Chandana, S Galsukar, Hisham Mirza*, Irfan Bhatti, Kashif Sharif, Mohammad Ahsan, Mohammad Amin, A Patel, J Roshantha, Saad Khalid, Sibtain Raza

Match Venue Nepal Vs Kuwait Elite Cup 2012           

                        Al Dhaid Ground
Match is played at Al Dhaid Sports Village and this turf ground was officially inaugurated during the Afghanistan v Saudi Arabia ACC Twenty20 Cup match by Abdulrahman Bukhatir.
Al Dhaid and its seven grounds were first started in November 2006           

Match Schedule Nepal Vs Kuwait Elite Cup 2012     

Match scheduled to begin at 09:30 local time (05:30 GMT)
Current time: 06:29 local, 02:29 GMT | Match begins in: 3:01

Thursday, October 4, 2012

ICC T20 WORLD CUP|SEMI FINAL|PRE MATCH ANALYSIS PAKISTAN VS SRILANKA


The making of a grand semi final Pakistan Vs SriLanka

Pakistan Side 

It was like few days before a lot of advertisement was shown of L. Malinga bowling with his slinging action to Virat kohli who was hitting a crisp drive and Morne Morkel taking a great catch with the background music on to show that ICC T20 world cup was coming soon but dynamically time through its nature has brought us to an eventful stage of the tournament it’s a major semifinal game between two Asian giant SL and PAK. Pak has proven them already in the earlier edition of the T20 world cup making to the semi's in the entire edition. This time too they are looking to repeat the triumph and bravery leading to the success them achieved in 2009 finally and they are trying to repeat the history ageing with their lucky comeback Helping by contended of this edition SA removing them out of the tournament.The main problem they are facing is their ground fielding and weak catching, catches were dropped almost in all the games they have played. Batsman too have clicked but not at that pace for which they are famous for. Only Nasir Jamshed imnar Nazir and mohamad Haffez have proved themself but
other players like Kamran Akmal who played gem of an inning against India in the practice match haven’t joined the party and the other bating failure are shahid Afridi, Umar Akmal and even other middle other batsman haven’t show their caliber and it might be curse to them for dropping their all-time all rounder Abdul Razzaq.Their strength has been the consistency of Saeed Ajmal whose variation is making even the best batsman play wrong short and the youngster Raza Hasan who has economy rate better than Ajmal and has Man of the Match in the last game against Aussies with his two wickets has been a new revolution for the side.In fact Umar Gul has proved himself in the entire department making him proved with the bat against a giant team like SA when his team was under pressure. Adding to it his consistence reverse sweep in the death over and his terrific catching has added new test to the golden achievement in the tournament. Even having the best side they need work harder to win this tournament and to prove them again and also must show huge amount of spirit firstly against
the home giant and consistence performers Lankans.

Srilankan Side

                   On the other side of the coin are the Lankans lions that have been the only consistence team with bat and ball and even in have set their standard in the fielding depart. The pace attack headed by L Malinga who is a wicket taking machine in the IPL for Mumbai Indians has a lot of experience and just to prove our statement and his strength, he took 5 wickets against England and even made a successful super over against NZ for the victory of their side. Following his in the pace attack Nuwan Kulasekara has always been a good new ball partner swinging in for the right hardens and going away for the Left Handers giving very little room to the batsman.followng them starts clever line up of all-rounders A.Mathews and T.Perera who can change the game within a short period of time with both bat and bowl. Now it’s the turn of the spinners to do the damage because Colombo has been identified for the good spinners. In this respect we can say that Pakistanis might be a nightmare and a little heavy for the home team Lankans. Although with all this names its look like complete team but we are missing some big name which has been recognized as the back bone of Lankans bating line up who can put pressure of the turners of Pakistan namely M.jayawredena, TM Dilshan and K.sangakara. This mixture is almost the best in the papers but all that matters is the performance in the field. They haven’t lost a game in the super Eight and looking more confidence to win the semi and even give thought fight in the final. The home crowd is being them and all they need to do is to play their natural game without trying anything different and keep them self alive with the same bowling and exceptional fielding
                                                                                       Both the team has the talent and is looking forward to tear apart each other to place their name in the final of the tournament. Hope this game would provide much more entertainment to the home crowd as well as the millions of the people behind the TV, Net etc. and finally proved to be a nail biter similar to the game of super eight.

Rating of different aspect(out of 10) of Pak vs SL 1st semi final

                                       Pakistan                                       SriLanka
Bating                                7                                                    9
Bowling                              8                                                    8
Fielding                              5                                                    8
Crowd                                 6                                                    8   
Consistency                       9                                                    8     

Sri Lanka team

DPMD Jayawardene*, TM Dilshan, KC Sangakkara, AD Mathews, BMAJ Mendis, HDRL Thirimanne, NLTC Perera, KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, HMRKB Herath, BAW Mendis

Pakistan team

Mohammad Hafeez*, Imran Nazir, Nasir Jamshed, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Saeed Ajmal, Raza Hasan

Best of luck to both the team

Match Venue ICC World Twenty20
1st Semi-Final: Sri Lanka v Pakistan at Colombo (RPS), Oct 4, 2012 

Match details Sri Lanka v Pakistan

Toss Sri Lanka, who chose to bat
Umpires SJA Taufel (Australia) and RJ Tucker (Australia)
TV umpire IJ Gould (England)
Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand)
Reserve umpire SJ Davis (Australia)

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

ACC ELITE CUP 2012|MATCH SUMMARY NEPAL VS UAE|NEPAL WON BY 4 WICKETS

NEPAL VS UAE Full Match Summary

Nepal(Anil Mandal 63(129), S Gauchan 5/32 ) won UAE 133/40.5(AM Guruge 3/25 , Mohammad Azam 33(25) by 4 wickets

And they say its different to win a war then to win a battle, it has been a huge war since 14 years and Nepal have tried to win against UAE but failed more then 5 times.Finally the dream come true for the Nepalese after 13 years.A win came and came with new hope with new doors open.This is the first time since 1998 Nepal have won against the UAE after 5 consecutive defeat against them and its a history to win against UAE for the first time in 50 overs format. The strength of Nepalese seems miraculous this time.Their way of handling pressure is seems like they are some test playing nation and to drag you team towards the victory in crucial situation is the most inspiring and magical moment for the Affiliated nation like Nepal who has always been blamed for their poor bating strategy.Very slow but exceptional inning played by Anil mandal who kept the hope alive after Nepal were 11/3 in  6.3 overs. The scoring rate of Nepalese slow down deep and seems in great trouble for just to score very low total. At one stage they were at 49 in 25 overs with an rate of 2 when destructively get their settle S Veswakar out of scoring 16 runs of 51 balls. Then came KP of Nepal Airee who scored fast 17(24) with 2 sixes without any four and finally boosted his side for the victory.It was very low total for the Nepalese other wise they  would be in great trouble to score without their star batsman,they did well at last and of course a win is a win finally.But a lot is to do for the players for the matches coming rest of  the tournament.Great batting display from Mandal 63(129) and even Aire was terrific hitting two sixes out of which one six right on the top tear of the Sharjah ground.Historical ground recording yet another history beating the host after more than a decade.    
                                                               In this glorious moment we should not forget that the bowling side UAE put excessive pressure on Nepalese batsman. The victory is not in their hand but they have totally controlled Nepali side. Over all it was Nepalese day to win the match but this performance might not lead side quit far in grasping the dream of Asia Cup and finally ODI status. A lot of improvement in team and combination is still seems lacking. Along the middle of the inning Nepalese side put on pressure to them self with lack of strategic strike rotate, so improvement in strike rotating ability will finally lead Nepal to open new door to make next historic win against the giant Afghanistan.     

Score card today's match Nepal Vs UAE 


Congratulations to the Nepali team and all the fan of Nepali cricket who wished for their team and hard luck for the brave players of UAE who fought till the last breath.
For more about the first inning performance click or see below the previous post..

Nepal Next match in ACC Elite Cup 2012

 06 october 2012 - Kuwait v Nepal Al Dhaid Cricket Village, Al Dhaid
For match detail click here

Nepal Vs UAE First Innings Analysis | ACC Elite cup 2012

Terrific performance by Nepal's bowlers

The 1st inning came to an end happily for all Nepal fans.It was a better start from UAE scoring 12 off the first over but once the wickets rattled they never got a chance to form any partnership and put pressure back to Nepal.It was another block buster show from the two champion spinners sharing 8 wickets between them. Shakti Gauchan as usual bowled cunning overs of his spell with an economy under 4 runs per over and taking 5 wickets making it his best figure in the Elite cups.An experiment works for Paras Khadka who is turning out to be Midas of Nepali cricket.They kept the history book aside and delivered a good show with the good show in the field and proved to be an exceptional bowling unit once again in offering condition for spinners as it has always been.
                                

                           A historic performance in a historic place always make the game worth watching and as expected by the Nepali fan globally and  they haven't let the fans down.The job is half done and now rest depends on how sensibly Nepal bat this small total. Hope to see good game of cricket and from the view of UAE they need quick wickets and for Nepalese they need just simple theory that everyone playing their natural game with some sensibility. UAE were never allowed to get going and have been outplayed totally so far. They do have six spinners of their own though and on a Sharjah surface that is gripping and turning, UAE have a chance
Stay with us for the total match summary and best of luck to the deserving one...

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

ACC ELITE CUP 2012/2013|PRE- MATCH ANALYSIS|NEPAL VS U.A.E

ACC Elite Cup 2012 Pre-Match Analysis Nepal Vs U.A.E 

Despite the host nation U.A.E have been very successful against Nepal in all the elite cup they have lost most of the recent matches they have played against the division IV winner Nepal.If we look the elite cup history of Nepal against U.A.E its like below.

NEPAL vs UAE : ACC TROPHY 1998 , United Arab Emirates won by 94 runs .
NEPAL vs UAE : ACC TROPHY 2000 , United Arab Emirates won by 1 wicket .
NEPAL vs UAE : ACC TROPHY 2002 , United Arab Emirates won by 6 wickets .
NEPAL vs UAE : ACC TROPHY 2006 , United Arab Emirates won by 9 wickets .
NEPAL vs UAE : ACC TROPHY 2008 , United Arab Emirates won by 6 wickets . 
so the result shown above is quiet disturbing for the Nepalese side but the time has changed more since last result in the year 2008 because the current Nepalese side is thought to be one of the strongest side ever. The professionalism development of cricket in Nepal with some players playing for some club and the back to back win for them has raised their confident level very high where the host nation U.A.E wants to have a better come back in the one-day format since they have lost their strength in their last few games. It would be an interesting and challenging for the both side to win this game.
                                                                                   The Nepalese squad have been with full of turners such as Shakti Gauchan(the most economical bowler in the Associate and Affiliate Nation), Basanta Regmi(Man of the series, Division IV), Sangam Regmi(Right hand off-break) who have been very successful in the Asian pitch and the current bating line up also seems very strong with high confident batsman such as Subash Khukerel, Ganandra Malla, Parash Khadka ,Anil Mandal  they have manage to carry some unorthodox batsman such as Pradeep Aire. 

MOST SUCESSFUL PLAYERS OF LAST ELITE CUP 2008 FOR NEPAL

Bowling 

 Player             M      Inns  Over       Mdns       Runs  Wkt  Best   Econ
SP Gauchan   6 6    50.0        12            115      9   3/5    2.30
M Alam            6         6    41.0        9              136      8 3/25    3.31
B Regmi          4 4    31.0         3              119     7       3/30    3.83
BK Das            6         6    45.0         5              230     7       3/57     5.11

Bating

Player            Mat Inns  NO Runs        HS Ave          BF SR
P Khadka       6     6 2 209            81         52.25 255 81.96
S Vesawkar 6 6 2 188            51* 47.00 403 46.65
G Malla           6 5 144            76* 36.00 186 77.41
K Chaugai 6 6 0 108           43   18.00 178 60.67
BF(Balls Faced)

Nepalese Squad 

P Airee, P Banskota, B Bhandari, A Bhattarai, BK Das, SP Gauchan, B Karki, P Khadka(C), SP Khakurel, G Malla, AK Mandal, B Regmi, S Regmi, S Vesawkar

U.A.E  Squad  

Abdul Shakoor, Ahmed Raza, Amjad Javed, Arshad Ali, Fayyaz Ahmed, AM Guruge, Haroon Iftikhar, Khurram Khan(C), Mohammad Azam, Mohammad Tauqir, Rohan Mustafa, Saqib Ali, Shaiman Anwar, EHSN Silva

Match Venue Elite Cup Nepal Vs U.A.E 2012

Asian Cricket Council Trophy Elite, Group A: United Arab Emirates v Nepal at Sharjah, Oct 3, 2012 

United Arab Emirates Vs Nepal

Match scheduled to begin at 09:30 local time (05:30 GMT)
Current time: 07:54 local, 03:54 GMT | Match begins in: 1:36

                    **********************BEST OF LUCK TO BOTH TEAM**************************** 

ACC ELITE CUP 2012 UAE |MATCH DETAILS|NEPALI CRICKET


Asian Cricket Council Trophy Elite 2012/13

Click the blue region for Nepal's match details 
03 Oct 2012 Group AAfghanistan v Malaysia Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
03 Oct 2012 Group BBhutan v Oman Al Dhaid Cricket Village, Al Dhaid
03 Oct 2012 Group BHong Kong v Saudi Arabia ICC Cricket Academy Ground No 2, Dubai
03 Oct 2012 Group AUnited Arab Emirates v Nepal Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
04 Oct 2012 Group AAfghanistan v Oman Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
04 Oct 2012 Group ABhutan v Maldives ICC Cricket Academy Ground, Dubai
04 Oct 2012 Group BHong Kong v Kuwait Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
04 Oct 2012 Group BUnited Arab Emirates v Saudi Arabia Nursery Oval, Abu Dhabi
06 Oct 2012 Group AAfghanistan v Maldives ICC Cricket Academy Ground No 2, Dubai
06 Oct 2012 Group BKuwait v Nepal Al Dhaid Cricket Village, Al Dhaid
06 Oct 2012 Group AMalaysia v Oman Nursery Oval, Abu Dhabi
06 Oct 2012 Group BUnited Arab Emirates v Hong Kong ICC Cricket Academy Ground, Dubai
07 Oct 2012 Group AAfghanistan v Bhutan ICC Cricket Academy Ground, Dubai
07 Oct 2012 Group AMalaysia v Maldives Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium, Sharjah
07 Oct 2012 Group BNepal v Saudi Arabia Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
07 Oct 2012 Group BUnited Arab Emirates v Kuwait Al Dhaid Cricket Village, Al Dhaid
09 Oct 2012 Group ABhutan v Malaysia Nursery Oval, Abu Dhabi
09 Oct 2012 Group BHong Kong v Nepal ICC Cricket Academy Ground, Dubai
09 Oct 2012 Group BKuwait v Saudi Arabia Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
09 Oct 2012 Group AMaldives v Oman Al Dhaid Cricket Village, Al Dhaid
10 Oct 2012 Semi-Finalnot known v not known Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi
10 Oct 2012 7th Place Play-offnot known v not known Nursery Oval, Abu Dhabi
10 Oct 2012 5th Place Play-offnot known v not known Al Dhaid Cricket Village, Al Dhaid
10 Oct 2012 Semi-Finalnot known v not known ICC Cricket Academy Ground No 2, Dubai
12 Oct 2012 Finalnot known v not known venue to be confirmed
12 Oct 2012 3rd Place Play-offnot known v not known venue to be confirmed