So one week
@IamSandeep25
gets bought by
@DelhiDaredevils
, & the next he is MOTM taking 4fa & in the last wicket p’ship to beat much fancied
#WCL2
hosts. I thought I’d share this photo I took a little under two years ago to show how much can happen in such a short time! 📸🏏🇳🇵
Congratulations to all 30 million Nepalis out there watching (the scores). Let's hope you can now galvanise & take advantage of the potential you have in this great sport - you CAN be the next
@ACBofficials
! A guaranteed
#WCLC
spot and ODI status for 4yrs.
#CWCQ
#NEDvHK
#PNGvNEP
3 years ago today the first full day of the
@HKT20Blitz
was in full swing (before the rain). Was the start of something special not only for
@IamSandeep25
but for many in HK who got to watch/play with & against world class players. Still very proud. ABC Super Team also pictured!
Huge news for all 30 million (!!) Nepal fans. Come February next year, expect to see 20,000 plus trying to pack into TU to see Nepal’s first home ODIs. Suspended governing body? No worries... Congratulations to you all 👏🏼
🚨 Nepal will host its historic first home ODIs at TU Ground, Kirtipur in the nation's capital against USA & Oman 5-12 February 2020 🚨
READ MORE 👉
Dates & venues for Season 1 of the new all-ODI
@cricketworldcup
League 2 have been announced!
Super Sandeep! After taking 4 v Namibia, 2 v Oman & 3 v UAE
@IamSandeep25
has now taken 5/20 (10) vs Kenya including 50 dots! Leading
#WCL2
wicket taker by miles thus far (14); a sublime average of 6.92 & economy rate of 2.74.
@DelhiDaredevils
&
@IPL
, you're in for a treat!
Karan KC! Yesterday with the ball, today with the bat, the hero again! 23 required from 2 overs;
@karankc33
31* (14) does it with a ball to go! The hero of Windhoek now adding Muscat to his pinned cities on the map 👏
LIVE STREAM | T20Is:🇳🇵🆚🇳🇱🇭🇰🆚☘️
After sliding past a fighting HK yesterday, Nepal takes on
@KNCBcricket
in the first game of Day 3 action from Oman today. The afternoon game will be
@CricketHK
v
@Irelandcricket
from 2.30pm local time. Stream/Stats 👇
He was made the ICC Associate Cricketer of 2017, and ever since he's been on 🔥! First he took joint first-place in the
@MRFWorldwide
ODI Bowling Rankings, and now he has taken first place in the T20I Bowling Rankings!
It's Afghanistan's leg-spinning sensation,
@rashidkhan_19
!
8⃣ countries' leagues in under 3⃣ years. Another day, another T20 league for
@IamSandeep25
as he joins the
@lahoreqalandars
. Since his start with
@KowloonCantons
in 2016, he's become the Associate world's T20 Globetrotter. And a 🇳🇵national hero 👏🏻
🎙️
#TheLoop
| 🏴 win 🇴🇲 Quad | Stuart's Super 6⃣ | ICC Asia Women's QLF
Hear from the winning skippers on the final day's matches in Oman. Dutch coach looks fwd & 🇭🇰's captain on the future of her side post-Thailand.
🎧:
🍎:
🇳🇵 leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane has been added to the ICC World XI squad which will take on
@WestIndies
at the
@HomeOfCricket
on 31 May for
#CricketRelief
What a moment for the 17-year-old!
READ ➡️
.
@ACBofficials
win!! Anybody who says “well they haven’t played top teams enough in foreign conditions” here’s another ✅ for this amazing emerging team. Congrats
@rashidkhan_19
on your international (unofficial) captaincy debut! Bravo Shenwari & Naib - and 🥁 Dawlat Zadran! 🎩!
Tonight was one of those times in life when everything is clear as to why we do what we do.
So amazingly proud - and fortunate - to be a part of these amazing humans’ collective journey.
Now, I will try and sleep, despite the omnipresent adrenaline…
And. We’re not done yet!
A historic day for
@vanuatu_cricket
! 🇻🇺
Playing their first-ever match at a global T20 World Cup Qualifier, they secured a famous victory against Zimbabwe 👏
Excited to be announced as the player of
@sknpatriots
for this season of
@CPL
! Thanks to
@sknpatriots
team for showing your faith in me ! And thanks to all the fans and well wishers for your love and support. 🙏
A new breakthrough in cricket. Two Chinese cricketers will be with the Peshawar Zalmi squad from today. This step will go a long way in facilitating aspiring cricketers in China and in reinforcing the bond between the two nations.
#HBLPSL
Sandeep is the first pick in the
@GT20Canada
Associate round. His base price was $60,000. He’ll play alongside Yuvraj Singh at the Toronto Nationals
#GT2019
I guess one should apply the silver lining theory to this; the potential gaps at the Sunrisers & Royals opens up potential for
@ronchi04
who was in blistering form in the
@thePSLt20
for
@IsbUnited
to slip into this year’s IPL. Likewise Guptill / Markram / Amla / Root / Head etc
When Sandeep goes for 0/25 & you get Paras for a golden duck, you have be winning those games! Great spells
@kyle_christie93
& 17 y/o Nasrulla Rana though & nice to see
@Wackyboiii
get some time in the middle. Superb from
@karankc33
/ Binod Bhandari 👏
#HKvNEP
Nepal, PNG, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Uganda, Scotland, Vanuatu and so very many others ... so much talent, passion & dedication out there Duke! All that’s needed is opportunity;
@IamSandeep25
is the (very talented) tip of the iceberg!
#BBL08
Meanwhile in Zimbabwe, Afghanistan just completed one of the most amazing tournament comebacks ever - comparable to Nepal in
#WCL2
& Australia in the 1999
@cricketworldcup
- to beat the Windies in the
#CWCQ
final. Congrats to
@MashalAtif
& involved - amazing!
#RoadToCWC19
#CWCQ
has shown the quality out there. Now
@ICC
can take advantage of their amazing dev. work & increase
#CWC19
to 15. 3x5 into Super 6s into IPL-style finals. 8 +
#CWCQ
top 7. Exactly the same number of matches. 50% more teams. Fewer dead rubbers. Min 8 matches for Super 6 teams
BREAKING: Afghanistan’s first ever test match will be against current world
#1
India at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru between June 14 - 18, 2018. Congratulations to
@ACBofficials
@MashalAtif
and my good friend
@ShafiqStanikzai
! Cannot wait!
#INDvAFG
I can see this being fasttracked - look at the work done by
@PeshawarZalmi
&
@JAfridi10
during the PSL. And don’t forget, there’s also a venue in Guangzhou that with a bit of work (on the ground and & the owners) could host inter’l cricket! PAK/CHN/HK/JPN T20I festival anyone?
There are 104 teams with T20 International status now. That means Pakistan have 103 countries, including China, to choose from to play international cricket at home. Expect a CPEC Series soon.
12 years ago a group of recently converted softball players came last in an Asian women's cricket tournament. Today, they have made history; they have qualified for their country's first
#T20WorldCup
. A credit to their local development programs. Simply amazing
@ThailandCricket
This is Anshuman Rath, appointed captain of Hong Kong age 20y 297d.
🏏 ODI average of 52.57
🏏 First Class: 65.16
✅ Born & bred in Hong Kong 🇭🇰.
✅ HKCC Gappers junior programme.
✅ Captained HK age teams.
Ever
#HKproud
.
👏🏼👏🏼🙇♂️🙇♂️
This was surely the only way Nepal would win their first ODI! (or 9 down and a last wicket partnership of 50+ if they were batting second). Genuine heart attack merchants!either way, congrats
@paras77
and to your 30 million teammates 👏🏼🇳🇵
NEPAL HAVE DONE IT! with two to win off the Last ball, a drive drilled into the non strikers stumps. Khadka ran and scooped, ripped out the stumps and that was it! Nepal win by one run! Epic cardiac kids are back again!
Nepal's
@eplt20official
aims to take Nepali sport to a new level on and off the field, with higher quality cricket and a level of production previously unseen in the country.
More here 👉
Amongst the hundreds of messages guys, my heartfelt congratulations. Despite all the upheaval & uncertainty you have just pulled off a famous
#CWCQ
win. An ASSOCIATE with <1,000 players & 3 turf grounds just beat a FULL MEMBER. Amazing to have been part of the ride
#CWCQ
#AFGvHK
आजै बिहानै मात्र गा्रउण्ड स्टाफले फोन गर्नु भयो र भन्नुहुदैथियो म्याम टियु ग्राउण्डमा पानी छैन, मैदान सुकिसक्यो सबैलाई भनिसके कसैले वास्तै गर्दैनन् । नेपालको आजको उपलब्धिले हाम्रो भुँईमा खुट्टा छैनन, टेष्ट राष्ट्रको गोरेटो अब तयार हुदैगर्दा हाम्रो क्रिकेट हेर्ने निकाय खै ?
Bit of personal news…
Cannot wait to arrive in my new home of Port Vila to help build on the great work of
@staffordvanuatu
and everyone involved with
@vanuatu_cricket
.
Definitely big shoes to fill, following on from
@Deita551
!
Mi Glad Tumas!
“Vanuatu are one of the leading lights of Associate cricket and I’m honoured to be selected as its CEO” – Tim Cutler
We are ecstatic to introduce
@timcutler
as our new CEO.
Read more about our exciting appointment on our website via the link
Is there a better cricketer to watch right now than
@rashidkhan_19
? His biggest challenge will be picking & choosing how much cricket he is actually able to play - would (now) be on every T20 franchise’s wish list - all while
@ACBofficials
will be getting more & more cricket👏🏼
Just check this out twitterverse! This is a gatherering to celebrate Nepal’s qualification for the
@cricketworldcup
Qualifer. And (wait for it!) to jointly scroll through the live scores for the
#WCL2
final together to cheer on their team. Amazing scenes!
#JaiNepal
🇳🇵
Changes galore for both
#DDvKXIP
. 5 for DD! Predictably, Christian for the misfiring Morriss & Plunkett in for...Roy?! Would’ve got
@IamSandeep25
in but with Mishra back I guess they figure they’ve got enough wrist spin alongside Tewatia. If not now....when🤷🏻♂️
#SelectDugout
Well done
@KNCBcricket
getting the stream/‘cast together.
1,651 days since 🇳🇱’s last ODI
First ODI for 🇳🇵
All the best to
@seelaar8
&
@paras77
leading their respective sides.
PS if you want a reply from friends / family / colleagues in Nepal, try Thurs or Sat!
#NEDvNEP
ODI Series NED 🇳🇱 vs NEP 🇳🇵starts tomorrow
🗓 1 & 3 August 2018
🕰 11:00 am CEST
📍 VRA Cricket Ground Amstelveen
🎟 €10 | Buy tickets at the gate
Free entry for children up to 12 years old.
📺 Kantipur TV
💻
#SupportOrange
#NEDvNEP
Finally caught the
#SLvAFG
highlights. Such a calm, complete performance
@ACBofficials
.
@Mujeeb_R88
just amazing to watch & now, to add to his many (new ball) tricks, a perfectly pitched (reverse) arm ball! Min. 4 more
#AsiaCup2018
🇦🇫games!! (VPN needed)
Doesn’t get much better than this in the outfield from
@gyanu_gm11
yesterday. At this stage UAE needed 19 from 6. World class fielding. (Pat Cummins’ catch today in
#AUSvSL
was good but had nothing on this one)
One of the most important events in Nepal cricket's history here on the path to readmission and an exciting time ahead for the development and success for the sport in the country. Amazing potential there for cricket's next emerging giant
#JaiNepal
It's too bad
@paras77
will be leading his country on the cricket field (and probably in parliament after this cricket career) as he would make an amazing cricket administrator.....
#ifonly
This morning - after 66 years, three children, and countless hours inspiring so very many things in her eldest (not least my passion for cricket) Mum lost her 2yr battle against cancer, peacefully, with Dad at her beside. Susan (Sue) Agnes Cutler (nee Churchill) 19/10/52-31/12/18
BREAKING: Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai has been ruled out of the start of their
@cricketworldcup
qualifier campaign, requiring surgery for appendicitis
#CWCQ
Chuffed to announce we’ll be writing a new weekly column for the ICC:
#GlobalGame
.
An amazing opportunity for the stories of the
@EmergingCricket
world to be told to as many as possible!
Nepal seamer Lalit Bhandari stable after a motorcycle accident, Jonty Rhodes links up with Sweden cricket, and more from the world of associate cricket.
#GlobalGame
| ✍️
@EmergingCricket
Just a quick reminder people. You’re watching (or listening about) the
#3
ranked allrounder in T20I cricket here: Mohammad Nabi from
@ACBofficials
. Here’s hoping he’s given his chance to shine with the bat as well tonight. He hits a long ball!
#BBL07
(look at you up there 2 PB!)
A great piece from
@ESPNcricinfo
’s erudite
@PeterDellaPenna
on Nepal’s
#ODIStatus
& the fine margins between celebration & catastrophe in emerging cricket. With only 3
#WCLC
spots guaranteed from
#CWCQ
a reduced (from 8 to 6) 2019-21 event seems inevitable
In Rashid Khan's stunning series against Bangladesh he took combined figures of 8 for 49 in 11 overs, giving him an average of 6.12, a strike rate of 8.25 & an economy rate of 4.45. He took 4 for 33 from 39 leg breaks (59%) & 4 for 16 from 27 googlies (41%).
#AfgvBan
Re; "standards" let's not forget that Malaysia beat
@CricketHK
just before HK nearly knocking off India. It's too bad
@IamSandeep25
won't be able to play
@VitalityBlast
b/c of UK visa laws, however, let's hope a
@BBL
club picks him up. Thoughts on him / Aussie wickets
@MClarke23
?
How good is Nepal's
@IamSandeep25
? Yesterday he took 5/8 against Thailand at the
@WorldT20
Asia B Qualifier, a day after taking 5/20 against Malaysia! 👏
He has a stunning 14 wickets in 3 matches! 🇳🇵
They say you should never meet your childhood heroes.
But I got to meet mine, then work with him, and then call Deano a mate. Shocking news. Deepest condolences to Jane & family.
(This was the 1st time -beyond a '96 autograph- I had met him. Got someone to take a sneaky📸)
RIP
Here's
@BdJcricket
on Nepal's ODI debut. To think,
@CricketHK
were 1 win (v Nepal) away from knocking
@ACBofficials
out (after beating them) & making
#CWCQ
Super Sixes. Instead, here's Nepal playing their first ODI & HK in
#WCL2
in peril. Cutthroat stuff.
Happy birthday boom boom
@_BabarHayat
. 🇭🇰 fans around the world will be hoping he & Biratnagar bash brother
@anshyrath
lead
@CricketHK
out of
#WCL2
in 🇳🇦 next month & into the new CWC League 2 from 2019-22 alongside 🏴 🇦🇪 🇳🇵 and three others from 🇵🇬🇳🇦🇴🇲🇺🇸🇨🇦 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Happy birthday to
@_BabarHayat
! 🇭🇰
His 122 against Oman in 2016 is the highest T20I score by an associate nation batsman, while in 2017 he became the first
@CricketHK
player to score a first-class double-century with 214* against PNG in the Intercontinental Cup.
Sandeep Lamichhane has just bowled a wicket maiden under the most intense pressure. Regardless of the outcome of this game, for that one over; take a bow.
What a hero.
#ProudPatriot
#LetsGoBoys
#CPL18
.
@DelhiDaredevils
’ leggie
@IamSandeep25
takes his first ODI wicket, bowling Netherlands’ Myburgh with an absolute jaffa! Right arm over, the wrongun pitched outside the the left hander’s leg stump and ripped past the attempted block and took off peg. A joy to behold!
#NEDvNEP
The stars align and the five of us are finally all on the same room at the same time for the first time - at a bar in Namibia talking Associate cricket. Of course.
#WCL2
Don't get me wrong, I think Nepal (with PNG & Scotland) are the next Test nations/Full Members, but🇳🇵is screaming out for an organised regional development programme/structure with local heroes/reps in a national league - T20's the low hanging fruit now, BUT, the sky's the limit.
Congrats mate! I know you've still got a final to play but you've had a tournament to be proud of - with bat & ball! Wickets:16 Best: 5/20 Average: 8.56 Economy: 3.09 Strike Rate: 16.6. Amazing numbers! Well done Nepal!
Oh God ! What a day today 😀 Thanks for these valuable moments. Nothing could be better than this. Thanks to all the well wishers all over the world for you prayers. Here we are coming Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
#World_Cup_Qualifiers
!
......just imagine how these fans would be if (when) they could watch their team on TV during
#CWCQ
! Naturally I'll be cheering for HK - however, it'd be amazing for the sport's development if Nepal can break into the Super Sixes and beyond.
This one's a little more emotional. Tonight,
@CricketHK
go up against the might of India. Many of us remember a similar night just over 4 years ago. Not many know about the helicopters. No "FAQ" this time, more a pouring-of-ones-heart-out-over-a-lunch-hour
The 1st ODI this century between full members not to be streamed or broadcast & its one of the greatest ever. If only the original
#CWCQ
broadcast plan had been stuck to; millions beyond those at QSC could’ve also witnessed
#cricketwithcontext
at its best:
ZIMBABWE WIN AN EPIC!
Brian Vitori claims the final wicket to send Queens Sports Club into raptures and give the hosts their second win of
#CWCQ
!
CARD ➡️
Not much more to add to this - agree with Bertus’ law change suggestion.
Not a karma person, however, was very pleasing to see Tanzania beat Bahrain allowing us through on H2H v Malaysia…. all
@vanuatu_cricket
squad members watching in lounge back at hotel 👇
I have been warning this could happen for years.
Malaysia shithouse Vanuatu off the CWC Qualifying ladder on NRR with what looks bang on like a deliberate wide, as I predicted they might.
Discussions, wide.
#MALvVAN
#CWCQPlayoff
In the last fortnight the world has missed seeing a last over Zim v Afg thriller, a Zim v Sco TIE, Nepal gain 1st
#ODIstatus
, 3 AM centuries (2>150!) v FMs & more. These are the moments that people remember, & why (potential) fans come back to the game (pics from Nep fans on FB)
Today is a huge day for Nepal cricket, their first home ODIs, as they take on Oman in the first match of Round 5 of
#CWCL2
| An even more impressive achievement considering the were suspended by the ICC from 2016-2019 | Live stream
@ourktv
:
Congratulations to Nepal (& by extension,
@ACBofficials
!). Was always gong to be a match for someone to stand up & do something special! Well done
@IamSandeep25
, Sompal & Rohit all playing key roles. Babar & Anshy were always going to be key & Nepal nullified them.
#CWCQ
#HKvNEP
Rohit Paudel and Sompal Kami's sixth wicket partnership seals Nepal's first win of
#CWCQ
! Hong Kong are defeated by 5 wickets and finish bottom of Group B.
#HKvNEP
scorecard ➡️
Great news here from the
@ICC
; yes
@CricketHK
have ODI status for the Asia Cup - but more importantly,
#CWCQs
will now all be ODIs & there is a broader review of status for one day cricket, seemingly towards expansion. Let’s hope the number of teams in
#WT20
/
#CWC23
is next 👍🏼
Amazing from UAE & HK. Reckon it was tough after 3 players were banned for ball tampering? Try losing 5 players within the last 2 weeks OR losing your captain, then another 3 who decided they didn’t like selections. Bravo to both & good luck in the
#T20WorldCup
Qualifier Playoffs
Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by 5 wickets to go 1-0 up in the 2-match T20I series.
Top performers: Rashid Khan - 3/19, Sharafuddin Ashraf - 2/31, Mohammad Nabi - 40 (27)
#AFGvZIM
The best global event for context, structure & opportunity. All done in 15 days: 14 teams. Min. 6 games a team. 6 nations proceed to
#T20WorldCup
. Cannot wait!! ✈️
Congratulations to my good friend
@ShafiqStanikzai
on his tenure as CEO of
@ACBofficials
. So many achievements on & off-field, ingraining cricket as 🇦🇫’s national sport, new elite facilities across the land & FULL MEMBERSHIP! All during continued unease/attacks. 📸: Mumbai May 17
Yet another impressive
@ACBofficials
spinner to add to the list. It was too bad he got injured & missed the IPL but here’s a great chance for Zahir to develop. Exciting times! Throw in
@MohammadNabi007
,
@rashidkhan_19
&
@Mujeeb_R88
- will we see an all-spin 🇦🇫 T20I attack soon?
The
@IamSandeep25
/ Hong Kong connection continues: he played for the
@KowloonCantons
that first Blitz year when City was their major sponsor and now City Sports buy
@sknpatriots
, Sandeep's CPL team.