New sponsor for national cricket

REPUBLICA, KATHMANDU, Oct 30:

Barun Beverage Nepal Pvt Ltd (Pepsi) and Standard Chartered Bank will sponsor the senior cricket tournament from this year, states a press release issued by the Cricket Association of Nepal. Barun Beverage will provide a support of Rs 1.6 million to conduct the tournament.

Previously, Springwood, a product of the Surya Nepal was the main sponsor of the tournament. Springwood was the main sponsor for the last three editions. “We looked up for new sponsor after Surya Nepal said that its business had declined last year. Last year, Surya Nepal provided a cash of Rs 800,000 citing decline in their business. Earlier, they used to support us with Rs 1.6 million for the tournament”, said Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) president Binay Raj Pandey.

The CAN is also looking for sponsor for the U-16 National Cricket Tournament. “The sponsor for U-16 will be finalized within two weeks,” said Pandey.

The CAN has also decided to discontinue the U-15 and U-17 national tournament from this year. “We decided to discontinue these tournaments as per the international norms. The International Cricket Council and Asian Cricket Council have omitted these age level games from their programs. Besides, there will be problem of age verification for these groups.”

Meanwhile, the CAN is also set to conduct the Inter-school U-16 boys´ and girls´ national cricket tournament under the coordination of the Ministry of Youth and Sports from this year.

CAN XI defeat SIDCO Mumbai

from republica.com, KATHMANDU, Oct 30:

Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) XI won the Friendship Match against SIDCO, Mumbai, by 8 wickets on Friday at the Tribhuvan University grounds, Kirtipur.

CAN XI won the toss and invited SIDCO to bat first in the 40 overs match. The Nepali team bowled out SIDCO for 72 runs in 18.2 overs. Mehboob Alam took five wickets — the highest number of wickets in the match. Alam bowled Sudhir Kohli for a golden duck while Sanjay Patil and Darshan Kumar couldn´t score any run. The highest scorer for SIDCO was Kailash Mhatre (14), who was ousted LBW by Binod Das.

CAN XI retaliated with an easy win, losing two wickets in 7.1 overs scoring 76 runs. Paresh Lohani was bowled out for 16 runs while Dipendra Chaudhary suffered a catch out for the same number of runs. Gyanendra Malla topscored with unbeaten 21 runs.