Bryan Adams to perform in Opening Ceremony of ICC world cup 2011 in Dhaka before he come to Nepal

Bryan Adams in concert

World famous  Singer  of summer of 69 ,who is suppose to perform in a Live concert in kathmandu in Feb 19, Bryan Adams is set to open this year’s World Cup cricket and he would be performing at Dhaka in front of millions of people around the world. To add more magic and bollywood masala, Indian trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy will be singing the official 'De Ghuma Ke' song.  

Bryan adams 

  Bryan adams will perform in the opening of ICC world cup in Dhaka that will take part in Dhaka at 17th february  that is  two days ahead of the opening match in Dhaka between India and Bangladesh. The tournament that’s comes once in a four year   will end in Mumbai on April 2 .

 The Feb 17 performance will fall near the end of Adams' India tour, which begins Friday in Pune. Also, on the itinerary is Bangalore, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. If you term this performance as not needed, think again. Bryan Adam’s home country Canada is one among the 14 qualifying countries to take part in this World Cup 2011.

The performance on February 17 will be broadcast to a TV audience of 200 million people by ESPN, said a press release.

ANFA rescheduled AFC challenge cup Qualifier 2011( group D)!!!

The AFC challenge cup Qualifier 2011 of group D that have been rescheduled to April 7 to 11 from the previous date of March 21-25. AFC reschedule the date on the special request of ANFA as the main venue was already given on rent for the international wrestling competition by the Nepal sports council. The tournament will take place in two venues:  Dasarath stadium and the Halchowk maidan(field) of APF. The group D consists of Nepal along with word cup qualifier of 2010 North Korea, Srilanka and the winner between Afghanistan and Bhutan and the matches between Bhutan and Afghanistan will take place on 9 and 16 February 2011 on home and away basis.

Logo of AFC

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Bhutan		Afghanistan

According to the news, the second round of team selection for the AFC challenge cup qualifier was already done and will be announced shortly. The second round of selection was done by sending some players home from the team of 46 players who have been selected in  preliminary round. The new team consist of 5 goalkeepers , 9 defender , 9 midfielder and 7 striker.  Graham Roberts and his team have selected 3o members and the probable members among the 30 are:

Jumanu rai

Goal Keepers: Bikash Malla (Army), Ritesh Thapa (NPC), Kiran Chemzong (NTSC), Bishal Shrestha (LH MMC), Rupak Shrestha (HSC)

Dasharath stadium

Defender: Sagar Thapa (HSC), Som Bahadur Malla (HSC), Bikash Singh Chhetri(Three star) Biraj Maharjan(Three star), Bishnu Sunuwar(Three star),Deepak Bhushal, Sandip Rai (LH MMC), Robin Shrestha (NPC), Rohit Chand (HAL India)

 Graham Roberts

Midfielder: : Bhola Silwal, Yogesh Shrestha, (NPC), Yogesh Gurung, Anil Ojha (NTSC), Rupesh KC, Jagjit Shrestha (HSC), Shiva Shrestha, Nirajan Khadka (LH MMC), Nirajan Malla (APF), Raju Tamang(Army)

Anil Gurung

Striker: Santosh Sahukhala, Sujal Shrestha (LH MMC), Jumanu Rai (NPC), Anil Gurung (SLFC), Bharat Khawas, Buddha Chemzong (NTSC), Ganesh Lawati (APF)

Nepali Under 19 Cricket teams once again made glory qualifying for the global qualifier for the ICC U-19 World Cup

Nepali Under-19 cricket team reaches the Final of ACC Under-19 Elite cup beating Qatar in the semifinal match at AIT Thailand. With this win Nepal qualified for the global qualifier for the ICC U-19 World Cup

Nepal will now play against Afghanistan in the final at TCG on February 10 in a bid to win the title for the fifth time. Two years ago, Afghanistan had beaten Nepal in semifinal ending the 10-year dominance of Nepal at the tournament.

 Once again the Nepal won the important Toss and elected to field first. Though Qatar had started well in the inning Qatar batting failed against Nepali spinners and were all out for 113 in 47 overs. Nepal chased down the target in 20 overs losing four wickets.

 Man of the match rahul Bk once again played brilliant and took 4 for 20. Bhuwan Karki supported well with two wickets – taken in two balls and including the first-ball wicket of Sajjad. He just gave away 12 runs in 10 overs to keep them pinned. Nepali fielder fielded well to keep Nepal on top with two run-outs at the end concluded the innings at 113 leaving Omar Istiaq unbeaten on 22. Saad Khan topscored for Qatar with 26.

 Nepal started its inning before the lunch and lost its two openers Subash Khakurel and Faljur Khan. Subash was trapped leg-before by Qatari captain Tamoor Sajjad who chose to open bowling with spinners. Sajjad caught Faljur off Mohd Khan.Agressive Faljur scored 19 off 12 balls. From 24/2, Sagar Pun and Naresh Budayer denied further damage adding 82 runs for third wicket. Sagar was out 8 runs short from target adding 36 run to his personal score card. Rajesh Pulami was bowled round-the-leg the first ball he faced. Pradeep Airee hit two sixes to finish things up in 20 overs.Naresh Budayer remain unbeaten in 42.

In other semifinal Afghanistan beat Hong Kong by 7 wickets in the other semifinal. Defending champions Hong Kong has scored 133 runs in 43.3 over. Afghanistan chased the target in 31.3 over losing its three wickets. Afsar Khan Zazai top scored 57 for Afghanistan and Kinchit Shah Top scored 28 for hong kong.

Keep watching and see the live score update of the Final match of ACC under-19 elite cup 2011 in http://www.cricket.com.np/. 

Prithu Baskota injured:

Nepal can’t celebrate its win as its captain Prithu Baskota tore his ligament while fielding against Qatar and had to be rested for three weeks. He will not be able to play the final and Vice-captain Rahul BK will lead the team in the final.

Prithu Baskota After Injury

Prithu was stretched out of the ground and taken to hospital where it was revealed that he only had the ligament tearing and no fracture. He returned to venue at lunch.