Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has announced the squad for the ACC Elite Cup on Monday.

After the wonderful win by Nepalese cricket team in senior Level at Division Three, once again Nepalese team is eying for another important Trophy where Asian non test playing nations wll compete. CAN has announced the same team that clinched the title of ICC World Cricket League (WCL) Division 4 for the upcoming ACC Elite Cup 2012.. The squad comprises captain Paras Khadka, Gyanendra Malla, Sharad Vesawkar, Amrit Bhattarai, Shakti Gauchan, Basanta Regmi, Sanjam Regmi, Rahul Kumar Vishwakarma, Pradeep Airee, Anil Kumar Mandal, Prithu Baskota, Chandra Saud, Binod Das and Subash Khakurel.
Bhuwan Karki, Avinash Karn, Binod Bhandari and Krishna Karki has been kept as reserve. Mahesh Chhetri has been dropped from the reserve list while Mehboob Alam was once again not listed. 

      Nepal will face UAE on 3rd October at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah. Nepal will play Kuwait on 6th at Al Dhaid Cricket Village, Sharjah before taking on Saudia Arabia on 7th at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi. Nepal will play the last match of the group stage against Hong Kong on 9th at ICC Global Cricket Academy 1, Dubai.

The semi finals and play off matches will be played on 10th while the finals will be played on 12th.

Nepal had been placed in group B alongside Hong Kong, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and host United Arab Emirates while the group A comprises of the defending champion Afghanistan, Malaysia, Oman, Bhutan and Maldives.

Nepal had lost to Afghanistan in previous edition by 95 runs in the finals.anantasports.com will bring all the updates of ACC Elite Cup 2012. So stay with us