ICC confirms Nepal to Play Div 1

Exclusive: Jan 28, 2015: Nepali people were already feeling excited with the unconfirmed news of Nepal playing Div 1 despite resulting at 4th position in the WCL div 2. Our coach Pubudu Dassanayake had first told media about the chances of team to play Div one, after returning back from Namibia. Now it is confirmed that Nepal will be playing along Kenya in the ICC World Cricket League (which is the official name for Div 1 league) that will happen from 2015 to 2017. CricketingNepal reports the confirmation of the news that is decided today by ICC meeting in Dubai. It is known that Nepal and Kenya will replace Afghanistan and Ireland for the WCL, as it is decided to select both Afghnistan and Ireland for ICC World Cup Cricket 2019. The Div one play means a lot to the Nepali cricket team, fans and benefits the country as a whole, as it not only enables more funds to the local cricket board but also provides more international games for the development of our players. Let there be a full fledged International level Stadium and we will be hosting big International games here. Nepali Cricket has taken a big leap. Thanks to Players, CAN, Media and mostly to the Man behind this major shot: Our coach Pubudu Dassanayake. Congratulations all Nepali.

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Nepal qualifies for World Cup T20 2014 (Bangladesh).

It is a very joyful, splendid and glorious moment for a person to have their country selected for a World cup tournament and that happened today for our country Nepal being qualified for world twenty20 cricket 2014 (to be held in Bangladesh). Nepal after emerging third in Group B met Hongkong (second in Group A) in the first Playoff match where the winner directly gets the ticket to Bangladesh. In such a crucial match for the world cup qualification, Nepal beat Hongkong by 5 wickets in the very last ball. The game turned out to be very thrilling as we had to score 13 runs from the last over, but Sharad Vesawkar smashed a six and a four in the first two balls of that over making the win possible. Skipper Paras Khadka was declared man of the match, scoring 46 runs from 39 balls and the credit even goes to Gyanendra Malla (30 runs) and Jitendra Mukhiya (for taking 3 wickets). In fact, all of Nepalese Cricket Team played well to have this dream come true despite some weakness and lagging. And the biggest gratitude will be towards coach Pubudu Dassanayake, for his excellent training and implanting the confidence in our boys for the international match.

Now I believe our Cricket Team will go way up with this qualification and someday we will lift the World cup trophy. Even one day (ODI) qualification is lined up, hope we will do better in that tournament too. This is just a kick off for our existence in the International sports tournaments.

We, all nepali are proud of our cricket team players and coach, they deserve a big welcome back to Kathmandu, apart from some financial rewards from the government. I will be there if I know the exact time of their arrival. Are you gonna be there??

Nepali Cricket Team in presentation program.

Pubudu Dassanayake: Nepali cricket Team's Coach.

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