NPC off the mark, APF share a point

Riding on Sunny Pun’s half century Nepal Police Club (NPC) made their debut in Pepsi One Day National with a 12 runs victory over Kathmandu on Saturday.

Other departmental team Armed Police Force (APF) also playing their first match, did not have such a good start as rain played the spoil sport at Engineering Ground.

Due to the wet out field the match had been reduced to 22 overs. Sent in to bat, Biratnagar were 16/2 in 2.6 overs when it started pouring in and the match had to be abandoned. Both Biratnagar and APF shared a point each.

At the TU Ground, Kirtipur, NPC set a total of 208 runs and bowled Kathmandu out for 195 runs in 48.4 overs. Kathmandu had a slow start. Their progress was hampered when they lost two wickets in succession and were reduced to 49/2 in 14.6 overs.

Puspa Thapa, who earlier had consolidated the middle order with his 37 runs, took two quick wickets—Avay Poudel (3) and Rajesh Pulami (6)—to put NPC on the driving seat.

Rupesh Shrivastav and Rikesh Lama then stitched 58-runs fifth wicket partnership which brought life back to Kathmandu’s chase. Left arm bowler Bhuwan Karki broke the partnership in the 33rd over when he had Shrivastav (22 off 38) trimming Kathmandu down to 126 runs.

Lama’s patient knock—36 runs off 53 balls including four boundaries—came to an end when Thapa caught him off Chandra Saud.

Binod Das then got rid of the dangerman Pramod Basnet (27) while Manjeet Shrestha had Pawan Shrestha run out. Das, Saud and Thapa shared two wickets each for while Manjeet, Karki and Rahul Kumar BK took one each for the Police Club.

Earlier, opener Mahesh Chhetri had scored 42 runs followed by 66-ball 50 runs from Pun and 34 from Thapa in the middle order.

Pun and Naresh Budhayer (18) featured in a 53 runs stand to take the total to 123 before Budhayer was caught and bowled by Pulami in the 29.3 overs.

Thapa then steadied the innings and looked poised to score a huge stroke before he was run out by Suman Uday to shrink NPC to 195/7 in 43.2 overs.

After that, wickets fell in a hurry and apart from Manjeet who added 15 runs, the rest of the batting collapsed as the Police were all out for 207 runs in 47.5 overs. Pulami grabbed three wickets while Basnet and Shrivastav shared two each for Kathmandu.

ANFA confirms AFC President’s Cup preparation

All Nepal Football Association (ANFA), the hosts of the AFC President’s Cup Group C Qualifiers, informed about the final preparations of the tournament amid a press meet on Monday. Interacting with the media, ANFA President Ganesh Thapa talked about the full preparations of the tournament. Also, ANFA statement reads, a budget of Rs. 5.4 millions has been allotted for the tournament. While, among the total allotted budget, 60,000 US dollar has been granted by AFC to Nepal and other cash incentives are likely to be collected from the tickets. The five-days running tournament is schedule to kick off from Wednesday at the Dashrath Stadium and Halchowk Stadium. The matches will be played under league format and two top teams will go through the final round. Along with NPC from Nepal, Taiwan Power Company from Taiwan, FC Balkan from Turkmenistan and WAPDA FC from Pakistan are pitted in Group ‘C’.

Cricket

A  bat-and-ball  called CRICKET is most popular games in the world.

There are different types of the cricket games nowadays,20 overs per side,test as high level etc.

There is a council world wide for Cricket International Cricket Council (ICC) as well as there is Marylebone Cricket Club and some others too.
after 16th Century Cricket developed smoothly.

There are many rules but the most of are pitch,creases.
overs etc.
Runs,Battings are also most important rules in the Cricket play.

There is 2 team wishing to take more runs to go to win.

There is we say scores.
A  cricket Field is rounded inside.

Football

Kicking a ball with foot ,we play football to get scores there in the field.

In the different Country there are different types of football palyed.

As that in true there is some common elements in the football games worldwide.

There is in the number of persons 11 to 18 per team in one side.

A special Area.
Goals
line defended
players forward the balls with their help of bodies like foot head etc.

There are different Football Associations in the world like The Football Association (FA). as well as nows popular The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA).

Sports

Sport should be strategy with fair play.There are different types of Sports like card as well as board games we can say mind types and others sports we use our physical involvements as next types.

The Second types sports games are diving like things judged fom the master.

There are professional sports where together with the media.Some sports are too much cost.

Sports is a different part then politics today.
Some of the sports shows the culture and some of the sports shows the national tourism too like sports of Elephant Football in Nepal.


In the Sports the recreational activities takes place in the real life and defined as humans they find entertaining in their life.