ICC has changed the qualification format of U-19 World Cup for Associate and affiliate nations.  CAN president, Vinay Raj Pandey , after his arrival from Dubai by participating ICC General assembly ,said  that according to new design top two  teams of regional competition from each region will have to play one more tournament which decides the 5 teams for U-19 world cup.

Nepali National cricket team headed to Srilanka for three practice matches programmed for 17, 18 and 21 of July on preparation for ACC Trophy 2008. Before departure to Srilanka, Nepali national team coach Roy Dias said to the media that it would likely to be his last visit with Nepali national team. He said that he had been in Nepal for seven years and its long time. He, however, said he would be until U-17 ACC Elite Cup scheduled for January 2009.

<Dear All, First of all we are appologized for delaying on registration of NCFC because of our personal affairs and also unfriendly action by CAN which without reason are not providing us reference letter for registration. We want to assure all fans we are shortly lunching some cricket programs.

Yesterday i sent a mail to CAN which is as fallow:Hellow, I am Sobhit from S. Korea, want to know, what is going on to prepare our team for upcoming ACC Trophy?

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Hello Guys, After an amazin day for Mehboob Alam and the whole Nepalese Cricket…its time for our match against Norway. Yesterday Norway got battered by the USA and this might be a match to gauge  how Nepal will feature against USA led by Clayton Lambert(played for West Indies)!!  The match has been delayed by 45 minutes due to wet outfield!!!For anyone who is keen to follow this match, the live score and the ball by ball commentary is available at:www.cricketeurope.com

It is a phenomenal day for Nepali cricket as they ruthlessly beat Mozambique by 219 runs. On the course to victory, Mehaboob Alam the opening bowler took all 10 wickets in his 7.5 over spell.

Nepal team is leaving on Friday for World Cricket League Division 5 Tournament. The tournament in Jersey begins on May 23 with Nepal taking on Germany.The team will not play Sussex academy due to delay in visa process but will take Guernsey and Bahamas in Guernsey before the event. In Nepal, they played PCB Academy registering one stunning morale boosting win.Nepal needs to reach the final of the event to qualify for World Cricket League Division 4 to be held in Tanzania in October.

From the official site of CAN; Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Academy cricket team arrived in Kathmandu Tuesday afternoon for three one-day matches against the Nepali national team. The PCB Academy will play against Nepal on Thursday, Friday and Sunday at the TU Cricket Ground. Former Pakistani Test player Ijaz Ahmed is the coach of the team led by Khalid Latif. Latif made his One-Day International (ODI) debut for Pakistan against Zimbabwe in January this year. Left arm spinner and batsman Fawad Alam has also played impressively in six ODIs.

CAN has selected 18 members preliminary squad for upcoming world league division 5, today.In that squad, we can see there is 6 specialist Batsmen (Paresh Lohani, Sarad Veswakar, Dipendra Chaudhary, Gyanendra Malla, Antim Thapa and Yashwant Subedi), 7 specialist Bowlers (Binod Das, Sanjam Regmi, Raj Kumar Pradhan, Amrit Bhattarai, Dhirendra Chand, Manjeet Shrestha and Pramod Basnet), 4 allrounders (Paras Khadka, Shakti Gauchan, Mehboob Alam and Basant Regmi) and 1 wicketkeeper (Mahesh Chhetri).

Domestic One Day league have started today with defending champion Bhairahawa playing the curtain raiser against region six, Baitadi. As usual the match in being held in Kathmandu valley. Last minute change to the venues means Bhaktapurs’ only ground at Army School wont see any matches. Engineering college ground, Lab School ground, University ground will hold all the matches.

The big hype of U-19 World Cup is over with huge disappointment. Our hope of entering into super league only remained as hope. Moreover, we surrendered our Plate Title to Windies in a disappointing fashion. Thanks to our batsman. No further comments.

This article is published ICC U19 WorldCup website………Here is the linkhttp://iccevents.yahoo.com/news/latestnews/news20080206-10.htmlNepal will rely heavily on its giant-killing abilities when it faces two-time former champion Australia and Sri Lanka in an intriguing Group C of this month’s ICC U/19 Cricket World Cup in Penang.

U-19 world cup fever is already hanging over Nepali cricket fans. Why not? As this is, so far the only chance when our National heros get chance to compete against the “big boys”. Previous editions of this junior world cup have shown lot of interest all around the globe and even more in Nepal. Who knew that, the opposing captain facing Binod Das would be Greame Smith one day? It would be a big fantasy to see that happening now.