ACC Emerging Teams Cup 2013

Schedules for ACC Emerging Teams Cup 2013

Venue : Kallang and Singapore Cricket Club, Singapore

Dates: 17th - 25th August 2013

 

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) named 22 players for the closed camp of ACC Emerging Teams Cup to be held in Singapore from 17 to 25 August.

Mahesh Chhetri and Binod Das are included in the 22 player’s list while 3 fast bowlers from the ACC U19 Cup – Avinash Karn, Yagyaman Kumal, and Ramnaresh Giri are also included in the 22. However the team excludes Bhuwan Karki who lead Nepal in the ACC U19 Cup. No batsmen have been picked from the U19 Squad.

Yagyaman Kumal and Ramnaresh Giri are regulars in the preliminary squad but haven’t however played for the senior side. Giri was picked as a reserve player in ACC T20 Cup held last month.

All 14 members of Nepal’s Division III squad – Paras Khadka, Subash Khakurel, Sharad Veswarkar, Gyanendra Malla,Shakti Gauchan, Amrit Bhattarai, Prithu Baskota, Sanjam Regmi, Basanta Regmi, Binod Bhandari, Pradeep Airee, Chandra Sawad,Anil Mandal and Rahul Viswakarma have been selected. 

Likewise Jitendra Mukhiya and Sagar Pun who were reserve players along with Ramnaresh Giri also make it to the list. Naresh Budayer who is training at Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) London makes it to the 22 but Rajesh who is training with him is excluded.

The closed camp will start 10th of July. Nepal is also set to fly to Sri Lanka for the preparation of ACC Emerging Nations Cup before the tournament. Nepal will face Afghanistan in its first match on 17th August.

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Nepal all set to meet four Div 1 teams in T20 Qualifiers

Nepal will meet four Division 1 teams in the World T20 Qualifiers 2013 to be held in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in November.


The official draw and calendar are yet to be published but the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com) reported that Nepal has been drawn in Pool B alongside Afghanistan, the Netherlands, Scotland, Kenya, Bermuda, Papua New Guinea and Denmark.


Afghanistan, the Netherlands, Scotland and Kenya are the Division 1 teams among the associate member nations of ICC. Papua New Guinea is a Division 2 team like Nepal, while Bermuda is in Division 3. Nepal had defeated Papua New Guinea in the last edition of the World T20 Qualifiers and Bermuda during the World Cricket League Division 3 held in Bermuda recently.


Hong Kong, Ireland, Namibia, Canada, Uganda, the United States, the UAE and Italy have been drawn in Pool A.

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Nepal Climbing The Foothills

With World Cup 2015 a distinct possibility after Nepal’s surging climb to the World Cup Qualifiers from Pepsi ICC World Cricket League Division 3, the foundations for similar prospects are being laid at Nepal’s National Cricket Academy. The current generation of successful cricketers are inspiring and coaching the next.

U-12s and U-16s have been monitored and assessed since February in a new coaching program set up at the NCA. Around 500 took part in the U-12 School Cricket Program, reports the Cricket Association of Nepal, and from them 33 have been selected for further coaching which will start in September. 58 students took part in the U-16/’Talent hunt for SLC appeared students’ over 40 days since April, and from those an 18-member NCA Youth Squad has been selected. The NCA is also reported to have provided full scholarships to 34 students in three prominent colleges of Kathmandu.

The achievements of the successful candidates were recognised in a season-closing ceremony attended by officials from the Cricket Association of Nepal.

If youth bursts through at all levels, “these kinds of programs help to grow a cricket culture, and with all the dedication of the coaches, many of them former national cricketers, there is a good chance that the success of the 2012 and 2013 players can be carried on for the next ten and twenty years,” says ACC Development Officer for Nepal Rumesh Ratnayake. “In sport there are no guarantees but one thing’s for sure, if these kinds of sustained investments in young cricketers are not made, there is far less chance of any achievement,” adds the former Sri Lankan international.

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