Nepal take Revenge with Afghanistan to reach seminfinal of ACC Under-19 Elite cup 2011

Nepal beat strong Afghanistan by 6 wickets in the ACC U-19 Elite Cup cricket tournament at AIT Ground, Bangkok on Friday. Nepal won the toss and elected to bat first in pitch that helped bowler in the early moring.The match that had started lliitle late than scheduled time. Nepal bowled out Afghanistan for 125 runs in 42.3 overs and scored 127 for 4 in 26.4 overs for the comprehensive victory. First wicket was taken by the Avinash karna in the first bowl of the inning sending Afsar Khan, already with a 100 this tournament, taking a return catch. Hashmatullah (3) holed out to mid-on to prithu off Krishna Karki ball in the fifth over

Prithu baskota during toss

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Avinash, having changed his bowling end, got Younas Khan and Najibullah out to restrict Afghanistan at 24/4 in 10 overs. From then on, it was Afghani effort to score while Nepali bowlers bowled with disciplined to keep them restricted. Avinash to adjudged man of the match.

Pradeep Airee and Rahul BK claimed two wickets each while Krishna Karki and Bhuwan Karki took a wicket each for Nepal to end Afghanistan innings early enough for six overs batting before lunch. For Afghanistan Mohibullah Paak topscored with 30 and Rahmatullah Sahaq got 29.Some Nepali fans have gathered now too, with a traditional 'madal’ to cheer up their team.

Nepal Beat Oman by big margin in ACC under-19 elite cup!!! Congrat to nepali team!!!!

Nepal defeated Oman in its second match by huge margin of 304 runs in ACC under-19 elite cup at TGC, Bangkok, Thailand. Nepal score 391/4 electing to bat first after winning the toss and bowled out Oman for just 87 in 31.5 overs for the second victory in the tournament.

Century boy Faizul Rehaman

 Nepalese batasman today started well as faizul Rehaman and  Subash Khakurel gave a brilliant opening scoring 81 before the latter fell to M Wickremaratne for 27 off 55 balls. Faizrul then partnered Sagar Pun for a century partnership. The duo who had partnered unbeaten 80 a day earlier against UAE, scored freely to add 110. Faizrul was given leg-before at 101 . The Nepal batting sprit didn’t stop only at that as Pradeep Airee joined Sagar and they accelerated the scoring rate. Their partnership counted for 127 runs, the second best partnership after 137 by Yashwant Subedi and Kaniskha in 2003 against Maldives, and came in no time. Sagar was bowled out for 83 off 80 balls by Umair Naeem and Pradeep soon followed after scoring 86 off just 40 balls with six fours and five sixes. Naresh Budayer (37 off 17 balls) and captain Prithu Baskota (22 off 9 balls) finished the overs with a huge total. The total score made by Nepal was same as it was scored against maldieves in the same tournament held in 2003 in Karachi, Pakistan.

In reply, Oman lost wickets frequently. Rahul BK took three for 14 and Avinash Karn grabbed two. They lost three wickets as run-outs – thanks to Krishna Karki. Prithu Baskota and Bhuwan Karki claimed a wicket each and get all out at 87. Nepali team will now rest on Thursday and keep physically and mentally ready for the upcoming match against one of the strongest team of the tournament Afghanistan. Lets wait and see whether Nepal will keep its sprit against Afganistan or not. Best wishes to prithu and his team.

 On other matches played today UAE won against host Thailand  by four wickets. Thailand batting first mande 88 in 45.4 over and hong chase the total in 23.2 over.

Nepal easy win against UAE in opening match of ACC U-19 Elite Cup 2011

nepali captain prithu before toss

Nepal outplayed UAE in its opening match of ACC U-19 Elite Cup at AIT Ground, Bangkok.Nepal one of the strong team in tournament restricted UAE just for 86 with the help of desipined bowling and  good fielding by nepali players. Earlier, Avinash Karn and Krishna Karki picked up a wicket each early to nail down the UAE batsmen who struggled to score.

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.