Nepal women's national cricket team

Nepal women's national cricket team
नेपाली महिला राष्ट्रिय क्रिकेट टोली
Association Cricket Association of Nepal (currently suspended)
Personnel
Captain Rubina Chhetri
Coach Mark Robinson
Manager Sanjaya Raj Singh
International Cricket Council
ICC region Asia
Women's international cricket
First international v Thailand at Johor Cricket Academy Oval, 12 July 2007
As of 23 December 2016

The Nepal national women's cricket team represents Nepal in international women's cricket. They made their international debut in the ACC Women's Tournament in Malaysia in July 2007. Nepal has been participating in various international tournaments since then. Nepal's current captain is Rubina Chhetri, coach is Shyam Sun Jung Thapa and manager is Sanjaya Raj Singh.

In April 2018, the International Cricket Council (ICC) granted full Women's Twenty20 International (WT20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Nepal women and another international side after 1 July 2018 will be a full WT20I.[1]

Overview

Women's cricket is thriving and the national team (made up of top athletes from other sports) did very well to reach the final of the 2007 ACC Women's Tournament. Nepal won the 2008 ACC Under-19 Women's Championship and defended its title in 2010.

In the ACC Women Twenty20 in Malaysia in 2009, Singapore needed two runs off the last over for victory with five wickets intact. Rubina Chhetri was given the 'hopeless' over but she did a miracle by taking five wickets in five balls as the match ended in a draw as she threw a wide. Nepal won the match in bowl-out.[2] With the rare incident, Rubina also became the first Nepalese cricketer, man or woman, to take a hat-trick. "I have never heard that any team has won the match taking five wickets in the last over, this is very, very rare," the then captain Binod Das commented.[3]

Tournament history

Asian Games

Records and Statistics

  • Nepal's highest One Day score: 284/6 (40.0 ov) against Iran, 2014 Asian Cricket Council Women's Premier[4]
  • Nepal's highest Twenty20 score: 109/3 (20.0 ov) against Iran, ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship 2009[5]
  • Highest individual One Day score: 72 off 94 balls by Sarita Magar against Iran, 2014 Asian Cricket Council Women's Premier[4]
  • Highest individual Twenty20 score: 39 off 58 balls by Neera Rajopadhyay against Iran, ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship 2009[5]
  • Best One Day innings bowling: 4/5 (4.5 ov) by Sita Rana Magar against Iran, 2014 Asian Cricket Council Women's Premier[4]
  • Best Twenty20 innings bowling: 5/5 (4.0 ov) by Nary Thapa against Bhutan, ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship 2009[6]

Current squad

The following list contains the final 15 players and 4 reserve players in Nepal's squad for the 2014 Asian Games:
Name Age Batting style Bowling style
Captain and All-rounder
Rubina Chhetry24Right Hand BatRight-arm medium
Vice-captain and Wicket-keeper
Mamta Thapa27Right Hand BatRight-arm medium
Opening batsmen
Sobha Aale29Right Hand BatRight-arm medium
Kajal Shrestha19
Middle-order batsmen
Mamta Chaudhary20Right Hand Bat
Indu Verma21Right Hand BatRight-arm medium
Saraswoti Chaudhary21Right Hand Bat
Anjali Chand23Right Hand BatLeft-arm medium
Trishna Singh26Right Hand Bat
All-rounders
Sarita Magar26Right Hand BatRight-arm medium-fast
Sita Magar26Left Hand BatLeft-arm medium-fast
Nary Thapa26Left Hand BatLeft-arm fast-medium
Bowlers
Karuna Bhandari29Right Hand BatRight-arm off break
Sonu Khadka24Right Hand BatLeft-arm fast-medium
Rekha Rawal27Right Hand BatLeft-arm medium

Reserves

  1. Binu Budhamagar
  2. Jyoti Pandey
  3. Kabita Gautam
  4. Roshani Bohara

Coaching Staff

See also

References

  1. ↑ "All T20I matches to get international status". International Cricket Council. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Scorecard of Nepal Women v Singapore Women, Asian Cricket Council Women's Twenty20 Championship 2009 (Group A)". cricketarchive.com.
  3. ↑ "Cricketing feats of Nepali players: Five wickets in 5 balls". myrepublica.com.
  4. 1 2 3 "Scorecard of Iran v Nepal, ACC Women's Premier 2014". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  5. 1 2 "Scorecard of Iran v Nepal, ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship 2009". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  6. ↑ "Scorecard of Bhutan v Nepal, ACC Women's Twenty20 Championship 2009". CricketArchive. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
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