Let me first congratulate Nepali
Cricket Team! Today, the Nepali Cricket team has shown us a small
glimpse of what they can do if they are provided with better
facility, infrastructure in cricket, coaching and training in Cricket
in Nepal.
In its final and the 6th
match that Nepal played today in International Cricket Council
(ICC) World Cricket League Division Four (WCL Division IV), Nepal won
comfortably against United States of America ('USA') and became the
group champion in WCL Division IV Cricket League. Nepali Cricket Team
was also able to push it towards Division III League and has opened a
door for 2015 World Cup Cricket. This is the biggest achievment for
Nepali Cricket Team. On behalf of this blog, we would like to
congratulate Nepali Cricket Team, Nepali Cricket Fans and Lovers.
The News about today's Nepal Cricket
Team's victory has been written very enthusiasticallz by Cricinfo.com
at http://www.espncricinfo.com/wcldiv4-2012/content/story/581637.html
Crifinfo writes about Nepal's victory
as below:
Nepal crush USA in the final
ESPNcricinfo staff
September 10, 2012
Nepal maintained their unbeaten
run in the World Cricket League Division Four after completing an
easy eight-wicket win over USA in the final of the tournament in
Kuala Lumpur. The win was set up by left-arm spinner Basanta Regmi's
five-wicket haul, which limited USA to 145 after they had chosen to
bat. USA's top order was not allowed to settle into any substantial
partnership as regular strikes reduced them to 83 for 5. The lower
half of the batting order was then skittled by Regmi as Nepal removed
the last four batsmen for eight runs.
Nepal lost opening batsmen Anil
Mandal, who had scored a century in the previous game, in the third
over, but a 93-run stand between Subash Khakurel and Gyanendra Malla
all but sealed the contest. Malla scored a 65-ball 66 that included
seven hits to the boundary and three over it, but was out in the 20th
over. Khakurel, who remained not out on 40, shared another unbeaten
stand with captain Paras Khadka to help Nepal achieve the target with
22 overs to spare. Regmi, who ended up as the tournament's leading
wicket taker with 21 wickets, was awarded Man of the Match.
Both teams, however, had already
qualified for Division Three and Nepal's coach, Pubudu Dassanayake,
expressed happiness on his team's performance: "The team did
just what was needed here and deserved to win. When I came to Nepal
the goal was always to get this team up to a chance of qualifying for
the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 and this Division 4 win now means
we're one step closer. There's a lot more hard work to do but I'm
delighted with the progress so far."
It is important to note that the Nepali Cricket Team was unbeaten in
this Cricket Tournament and Nepal won all the six matches without any
deafeat. In this Cricket tournament, Nepali Cricket Team made
substantial progress on batting and bowling both. This has opened a
window of hope for Nepali Cricket Lovers that Nepal can do much
better in Cricket on coming days.
With the increasing development of Television and Radio Channels in
Nepal and with increasing use of modern mobile technology inside
Rural Nepal, the once feudal game in England – the cricket – is
penentrating deep inside Nepal's remote places. Also, the fact that
has influenced Nepali's interests towards cricket is due to Nepal's
immediate neighbour India which has been a champion in developing and
commercialising Cricket. Other closer countries in South Asia,
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are much ahead in Cricket and
Nepalis have learned how to play and enjoy cricket watching these
neighbours play.
There is no official data regarding which sports has the maximum mass
base in Nepal but our common sense says that it has to be the
football as of now. However, with the progress of Cricket in this
phase will certainly make Cricket the most preferred and played
sports in Nepal. Nepal, being a very poor thirdworld country, hardly
invests on Sports but whatever little has been done till date has
gone towards Football. In comparison to investment and mass supports,
Football in Nepal is not able to perform that much in comparison to
what Cricket Players are doing. There is a high chance that with
these kinds of performances by Nepali Cricketers, the loyalty will
gradullay now, shifts towards Cricket.
At this juncture, let us celebrate the victory of Nepali Cricket Team
and may Nepali Cricket Team do even better on coming days! Yo jit
kasko? Nepali Cricket ko, Cricket ka Fans haru Ko!
