Nepal Under -19 cricket team is in thailand to participate ACC Under-19 Elite Cup

The ACC U-19 Elite Cup is scheduled to be held in Thailand from February 1 to 10. Nepal is in Group B along with Afghanistan, Oman, UAE and Thailand for league matches. Prithu will lead the team that also consists of national players Rahul Kumar Biswokarma and Naresh Budhayar, the selection committee of the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) announced.

Prithu with bangladeshi captain 

Rahul is named vice-captain of the team that consists four debutant player. Rajesh Pulami, Mohammad Hashim, Faizal Khan and Rahul Pratap Singh are the players who have not represented the nation in any age-group level.

Other members of the team are Subash Khakurel, Pradeep Airee, Bhuwan Karki, Bibek Dali, Avinash Karn, Krishna Karki and Sagar Pun.

Prithu with press before leaving for tournament

Nepal one of the non test playing country which have done well in the Under 19 in asian region  as well as under 19 world cup having been chosen as plate champion and had very good history of beating some test playing nation like Bangladesh , Newzland and south Africa. Nepal have dominant when it played against non test playing nation but in previous tournament Nepal had failed to select for the world cup losing seminal against talented Afghanistan.

Nepali Under-19 cricket team

Before leaving for Bangladesh In an interview with Cricket Nepal, Prithu said the team’s aim to gain the lost glory by qualifying to the Youth World Cup. In Bangladesh Nepal loses all three matches against host Bangladesh that had taken place in Sylhet. First two match were 50 overs and lat was the 20-20 match. In first match Nepal failed against Bangladesh with the deafeat of ten wicket while in second match Nepal again lost with 145 runs. Nepal U-19 cricket team ended the Bangladesh tour with a 68-run loss in the one-off Twenty20 match against Bangladesh U-19 at Sylhet on Saturday.Though they had lost against strong Bangladesh they had learned lot from the practice match. So coach and captain are still hopeful  to win the champions ship and select for world cup. “We have learned a lot from here. We got an opportunity to face a tough spinner and came to know that we have to improve a lot in batting,” said  jagat Tamata who have been appointed as a coach after Nepal said good bye to the srilankan coach Roy dias.

 Here I have given the Schedule and Fixture of  ACC Under-19 Elite Cup!!

	01 Feb 2011	Group A		Bahrain Under-19s v Hong Kong Under-19s	Prem Tinsulanonda International School, Chiang Mai	misc
	01 Feb 2011	Group A		Malaysia Under-19s v Qatar Under-19s	Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai	misc
	01 Feb 2011	Group B		Nepal Under-19s v United Arab Emirates Under-19s	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	01 Feb 2011	Group B		Thailand Under-19s v Afghanistan Under-19s	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	02 Feb 2011	Group B		Bahrain Under-19s v Malaysia Under-19s	Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai	misc
	02 Feb 2011	Group A		Nepal Under-19s v Oman Under-19s	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	02 Feb 2011	Group B		Qatar Under-19s v Singapore Under-19s	Prem Tinsulanonda International School, Chiang Mai	misc
	02 Feb 2011	Group A		Thailand Under-19s v United Arab Emirates Under-19s	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	03 Feb 2011	Group A		Afghanistan Under-19s v Oman Under-19s	Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai	misc
	03 Feb 2011	Group B		Hong Kong Under-19s v Singapore Under-19s	Prem Tinsulanonda International School, Chiang Mai	misc
	04 Feb 2011	Group B		Afghanistan Under-19s v Nepal Under-19s	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	04 Feb 2011	Group A		Hong Kong Under-19s v Qatar Under-19s	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	05 Feb 2011	Group A		Bahrain Under-19s v Qatar Under-19s	Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai	misc
	05 Feb 2011	Group A		Malaysia Under-19s v Singapore Under-19s	Prem Tinsulanonda International School, Chiang Mai	misc
	05 Feb 2011	Group B		Oman Under-19s v United Arab Emirates Under-19s	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	05 Feb 2011	Group B		Thailand Under-19s v Nepal Under-19s	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	06 Feb 2011	Group A		Afghanistan Under-19s v United Arab Emirates Under-19s	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	06 Feb 2011	Group B		Bahrain Under-19s v Singapore Under-19s	Prem Tinsulanonda International School, Chiang Mai	misc
	06 Feb 2011	Group B		Hong Kong Under-19s v Malaysia Under-19s	Gymkhana Club, Chiang Mai	misc
	06 Feb 2011	Group A		Thailand Under-19s v Oman Under-19s	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	08 Feb 2011	Semi-Final		not known v not known	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	08 Feb 2011	Semi-Final		not known v not known	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	09 Feb 2011	5th Place Play-off		not known v not known	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	09 Feb 2011	7th Place Play-off		not known v not known	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	10 Feb 2011	Final		not known v not known	Thailand Cricket Ground, Bangkok	misc
	10 Feb 2011	3rd Place Play-off		not known v not known	Asian Institute of Technology Ground, Bangkok	misc
	10 Feb 2011	9th Place Play-off		not known v not known	Patana School Ground, Bangkok	misc

Japan" Blue samurai" are new asian champions in football

Japanese player celebrating with Asian cup 2011

Japan also the contender of world cup 2010 from Asia  have won the 2011 Asian Cup with an extra-time 1-0 win over Australia in Doha.

goal keeper of japan Eiji Kawashima

The Blue Samurai notched up an unprecedented fourth title thanks to a 109th minute Tadanari Lee volley, giving manager Alberto Zaccheroni his first piece of silverware in less than six months in the job.A left-foot volley in the 109th from Lee  when he was left completely unmarked 10 meters (yards) from Australia's goal. Lee had always on the planet to completely time his volley from a go by way of defender Yuto Nagatoma and fire it prior Australia goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer.Australia could only have themselves to blame as they missed a host of chances throughout proceedings but Japan held firm in defence, led by goalkeeper Eiji Kawashima, and eventually ran out winners to qualify themselves for the 2013 Confederations Cup in Brazil.

  

Australian after their semifinal win against Uzbekistan were supposed to win the title by many vieweres went wrong and the people in Khalifa stadium cheered for japan for their winning sprit.It is the fourth time in asian cup histroy japan have been crowned as champions.

Honda taking the MVP trophy

moments of AFC asian cup 

Keisuke Honda was named the most valuable player as he guided his team to the final and won the championship.Third  place was taken away vy the south korea beating uzbekistan 3-2 in thiird place match.

Schedule and Fixture of ICC world cup 2011

As the Fever has already started for the  2011 ICC cricket world cup going to held from 19th of february 2011 in india, srilanka and bangladesh. All the cricket lovers from all over the world are waiting for cricket world cupo to kick off and people will remain infront of television and be in lines to get ticket and enter the stadium to watch their cricket stars live infront of them. !4 teams are taking part in the worldcup  and among them Ten nations are test playing nation while remaining four make their way throught the final round playing lots of selection match.Here i have given the schedule and fixtures along with starting time and venue. Enjoy cricket!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  As world cup is taking place in south asian region its good news for all south asian top host such big tournament ans proove them again as a cricket lion as three south asian nations have already taken the world cup their home.

Group A:	Group B
Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada, Kenya.	India, South Africa, England, West Indies, Bangladesh, Ireland, Netherlands.

Match no.	Time (local)	Date	Teams	Venue
1	14:30	19 Feb	India vs Bangladesh	Dhaka
2	09:30	20 Feb	New Zealand vs Kenya	Chennai
3	14:30	20 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Canada	Hambantota
4	14:30	21 Feb	Australia vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
5	14:30	22 Feb	England vs Netherlands	Nagpur
6	14:30	23 Feb	Pakistan vs Kenya	Hambantota
7	14:30	24 Feb	South Africa vs West Indies	New Delhi
8	09:30	25 Feb	Australia vs New Zealand	Nagpur
9	14:30	25 Feb	Bangladesh vs Ireland	Dhaka
10	14:30	26 Feb	Sri Lanka vs Pakistan	Colombo
11	14:30	27 Feb	India vs England	Kolkata
12	09:30	28 Feb	West Indies vs Netherlands	New Delhi
13	14:30	28 Feb	Zimbabwe vs Canada	Nagpur
14	14:30	1 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Kenya	Colombo
15	14:30	2 Mar	England vs Ireland	Bangalore
16	14:30	3 Mar	South Africa vs Netherlands	Mohali
17	14:30	3 Mar	Pakistan vs Canada	Colombo
18	09:30	4 Mar	New Zealand vs Zimbabwe	Ahmedabad
19	14:30	4 Mar	Bangladesh vs West Indies	Dhaka
20	14:30	5 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Australia	Colombo
21	09:30	6 Mar	India vs Ireland	Bangalore
22	14:30	6 Mar	England vs South Africa	Chennai
23	14:30	7 Mar	Kenya vs Canada	New Delhi
24	14:30	8 Mar	Pakistan vs New Zealand	Pallekelle
25	14:30	9 Mar	India vs Netherlands	New Delhi
26	14:30	10 Mar	Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle
27	09:30	11 Mar	West Indies vs Ireland	Mohali
28	14:30	11 Mar	Bangladesh vs England	Chittagong
29	14:30	12 Mar	India vs South Africa	Nagpur
30	09:30	13 Mar	New Zealand vs Canada	Mumbai
31	14:30	13 Mar	Australia vs Kenya	Bangalore
32	09:30	14 Mar	Pakistan vs Zimbabwe	Pallekelle
33	14:30	14 Mar	Bangladesh vs Netherlands	Chittagong
34	14:30	15 Mar	South Africa vs Ireland	Kolkata
35	14:30	16 Mar	Australia vs Canada	Bangalore
36	14:30	17 Mar	England vs West Indies	Chennai
37	09:30	18 Mar	Sri Lanka vs New Zealand	Mumbai
38	14:30	18 Mar	Ireland vs Netherlands	Kolkata
39	09:30	19 Mar	Australia vs Pakistan	Colombo
40	14:30	19 Mar	Bangladesh vs South Africa	Dhaka
41	09:30	20 Mar	Zimbabwe vs Kenya	Kolkata
42	14:30	20 Mar	India vs West Indies	Chennai
43	14:30	23 Mar	First Quarterfinal	Dhaka
44	14:30	24 Mar	Second Quarterfinal	Colombo
45	14:30	25 Mar	Third Quarterfinal	Dhaka
46	14:30	26 Mar	Fourth Quarterfinal	Ahmedabad
47	14:30	29 Mar	First Semifinal	Colombo
48	14:30	30 Mar	Second Semifinal	Mohali
49	14:30	02 Apr	FINAL	Mumbai