One of Nepal’s biggest telecom services, Ncell is presenting the nation’s first exclusive cricket league – Ncell Nepal Premier League (NPL), April – May, 2014. As stated by their official page on Facebook, the unveiling of the official logo of the tournament took place at a press conference held at Radisson Hotel, Kathmandu on February 24, 2014 (Monday). Present at the event were many big personalities from cricket players to team owners.
The page for Nepali Premier League NPL states the probability of the total number of teams being six.
The national cricket team preparing for the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers are playing against top division clubs in their nine-day Sri Lanka tour that begins from December 18.
Nepal are playing against Colmbo Colts, Moors Sports Club, Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket Club and Bloomfield Sports Club. All the teams are the Premier clubs of Sri Lanka.Nepal will begin their four-match preparation tour with a match against Colombo Colts on December 19 and the next day they will play Moors Cricket Club.
After three days, they meet Sri Lanka Ports Authority and on December 26 the tour ends with a match against Bloomfield Sports Club. National team coach Pubudu Dassanayake said the tour will be focused on shaping the team in every aspect.
"These are the best teams that we could get and we can try out all our plans playing against them. I am sure the matches are going to be really tough for us because we are going to encounter some of the brilliant players from Sri Lanka," Dassanayake told cricketingnepal.com.
Nepal will directly leave for New Zealand from Sri Lanka for the ICC World Cup Qualifiers beginning from January 13. Nepal will also play few practice matches in New Zealand as they are going to be in the tournament venue 10 days prior to the Qualifiers which sends two teams in 2015 World Cup.
Nepal's tour itinerary
18th December 2013 ...Practice.... and Lunch at the NCC Grounds
ICC World Twenty20 2013/14 will start from Mar 16, 2014 as per ICC World Twenty20 2013/14 Schedule. ICC World Twenty20 2013/14 Time Table & Fixture is prepared by International Cricket Council and is part of FTP (Future Tour Program). Total 35 matches will be played in ICC World Twenty20 2013/14.
In 1st match of ICC World Twenty20 2013/14 Bangladesh will take on Afghanistan on Mar 16, 2014. Opening game of ICC World Twenty20 2013/14 will be played between Bangladesh vs Afghanistan at Dhaka.
ICC World Twenty20 2013/14 Schedule with time table and full fixtures can be downloaded in PDF Format. ICC World Twenty20 2013/14 is also available in Excel (CSV) format. You must open this file in Microsoft excel only.
Time & Date
Match
Venue
15:30 local time | 09:30 GMT
1st Match, Group A: Bangladesh vs Afghanistan
Dhaka
19:30 local time | 13:30 GMT
2nd Match, Group A: Hong Kong vs Nepal
Chittagong
15:30 local time | 09:30 GMT
3rd Match, Group B: Ireland vs Zimbabwe
Sylhet
19:30 local time | 13:30 GMT
4th Match, Group B: Netherlands vs United Arab Emirates
Sylhet
15:30 local time | 09:30 GMT
5th Match, Group A: Afghanistan vs Hong Kong
Chittagong
19:30 local time | 13:30 GMT
6th Match, Group A: Bangladesh vs Nepal
Chittagong
15:30 local time | 09:30 GMT
7th Match, Group B: Netherlands vs Zimbabwe
Sylhet
19:30 local time | 13:30 GMT
8th Match, Group B: Ireland vs United Arab Emirates
Sylhet
15:30 local time | 09:30 GMT
9th Match, Group A: Afghanistan vs Nepal
Chittagong
19:30 local time | 13:30 GMT
10th Match, Group A: Bangladesh vs Hong Kong
Chittagong
11:30 local time | 05:30 GMT
11th Match, Group B: Zimbabwe vs United Arab Emirates
A 15-member Squad has been announced by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) for the ICC WC Qualifiers tournament, that is going to take place in New Zealand from 13th January to 1st February, 2014.
The first choice 15 member squad includes Paras Khadka (captain), Gyanendra Malla (vice Captain), Sompal Kami, Shakti Gauchan, Sharad Vesawakar, Basant Regmi, Pradeep Airee, Binod Bhandari, Prithu Baskota, Anil Mandal, Subash Khakurel (wicket keeper), Jitendra Mukhiya, Avinash Karna, Sagar Pun and Mahesh Chhetri.
Rahul V.K, Amrit Bhattarai, RamNaresh Giri and Naresh Bahadur Budhayair have also been selected as the reserves.
The inclusion of a young pace bowler Sompal Kami came after his impressing performance in the U-19 National Tournament as well as in the matches of Journey to World Cup where Nepal came second after losing to Air India team in the final.
Also, Prithu Baskota got back to the team after recovering from a knee injury that kept him sidelined in the T20 World Cup Qualifying matches.
Team Nepal has been included alongside UAE, Scotland, Hong Kong and Canada in the Group A for e 50-over (One-Dayers) World Cup.
