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