This is the second time, we (NT) participated in Beach Cricket, earlier it was in 2010. Shangri-La Cricket Academy has been organizing this event since 2010, that year it was promoted with a campaign under Nepal Tourism Year 2011. Two teams from NTC, (NTC Red and NTC Blue) were participating in this two day long event held at River Side Spring Resorts, Kurintar on 20-21 April. Altogether of 16 teams in 4 pools played seriously for fun in game of 5 overs of which only the top teams in each pool went to the semi-finals. NTC 'Blue' entered into semi-final defeating Nepal Tourism Board and Chaudhary Group but lost to Rolling Plans by 15 runs in the first semifinals. In the second semifinal, Nimbus Nepal Defeated Himalayan Distillery by 8 runs. And in the final match, Rolling Plans defeated Nimbus Nepal by 4 wickets chasing a target of 50 runs.
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| Rolling Plans Holding the Trophy. |
NTC Red managed to get one win over President Travel and Tours by 4 wickets. Other teams include British College, Mercantile Exchange, WWF 'Panda', WWF 'Tiger', APF (Armed Police Force), Surya Nepal.This year it was quite different with teams obliged to include a female participant otherwise the team would be penalized of 30 runs.
Best Cheering Team Went to APF who had brought a platoon(??) to hail their game. Best Male Player went to Rahul Pyakurel from Rolling Plan with a total of 94 runs and Rashu Lama from Rolling Plans was awarded Best female player.
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| NTC Blue Team |
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| NTC Red Team |
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