Sompal not going Sri Lanka

CAN president recently told that Sompal Kami is not going to Sri Lanka today. It is because his visa hasnot been prepared yet.He will be joining the Sri Lankan practises shortly.
Nepal on Poush 26 is having warm up match against Namibia and Poush 27 against Kenya.
More fixtures are here.

New loadshedding Schdeule

New load shedding schedule of nepal.Effective from 2nd Poush.
Group:5
Sunday:9-1 5-9
Monday:7:30-12 5-8:30
Tuesday:6-11 4:30-7:30
More here

Who will win toyota car? :owner's review

Recently from cricnepal,we have been known the interview upon owner.Actually he told this on facebook chat.He told that toyota car will be provided to the player who have important role to make Nepal reach the world cup.He also said"Actually this is whole team work.But one who have most important role to make Nepal win will get that."
Vote the player u think should win.

Short Ball-Expert review

Doesn’t matter how talented you are, doesn’t
matter how well techniques you have got,
doesn’t matter which color of cheery you are
facing, doesn’t matter how many runs you
have scored, doesn’t matter how big player
you are, a bowler pitching it short and the
cheery passing right by your nose where you
can smell it, is a Nightmare you will never
wanna see as a batsman. No experts or bio
technicians can explain the right way to
answer the question that has been asked by
a bowler with a short ball. It becomes more
dangerous in the pitches apart from sub
continent when it comes to your body at
around 140 KPH. Even the best batsman like
Sir Donald Bradman, Sachin Tendulkar and
Ricky Pointing has suffered in some phases of
their career from its saber.
For batsman from sub continent who isn’t
used to with the pace and bounce finds it
more difficult but it doesn’t mean batsman
from bouncy pitches finds it easier to play. In
first and second test of Ashes series leaving
one or two wickets, other all to fall are to the
short balls. Also in recent West Indies vs New
Zealand also maximum number of wickets
has fallen to the short ball, which explains
how difficult it is to control a short delivery.
But if you are a bowler and can bowl at
130-140 KPH regularly then SHORT BALLS are
the best balls that will provide you wickets in
any pitches. Some great bowlers like Wasim
Akram, Tom Moody, Kapil Dev used to use it
quite often and short ball has responded
them will. In modern day cricket as a bowler
it’s a best weapon you can throw any time at
any pitches also if you can bring it back to the
body of the batsman then no doubt you will
be the most difficult bowlers to play.
Eyeing a spot in 50 over world cup, Nepal will
be playing its biggest ever tournament in New
Zealand in less than one month time. No
doubt the pitches know for their pace and
bounce are goanna trouble the Nepali
batsman who are hardly used to off it. But
once they get in there they will get value for
their shots also they will find it easier to score
though they cannot neglect the short balls
and its saga. Some of the Nepali batsmen like
Sagar Pun, Paras Khadka and Mahesh Chettri
who look a bit more comfortable to short will
have to play a role model and lead from the
front. Letting a ball go is the best way to
approach it but in t20s and one day format
leaving a ball is not that much practical as a
ball can give you six runs and six runs in a
limited over cricket has a great value. Getting
on the top of the bounce and playing along
the ground is important also feet movement
has a significant role to play. Also playing a
proper cricketing shot is important, many
batsman in recent past has lost their wicket in
playing a false shot. But if you are going at
the ball then swing your bat hard so that if
you mishit it too that won’t get to the fielders
inside the circle. But paying some respect to
the cheery you are playing especially when its
new is the best way to approach you inning.

Nepal's tour of srilanka(Schedule)

Kathmandu – The National Cricket Team will
begin their Nine-day Sri Lanka tour on
Tuesday as a preparation for the ICC World
Cup Qualifiers to be held in New Zealand
from January 13. Top two team from the
qualifiers will participate in the 2015 World
Cup.
Nepal will play against the premier clubs of
Sri Lanka which are Colombo Colts, Moors
Sports Club, Sri Lanka Ports Authority Cricket
Club and Bloomfield Sports Club.
According to the source,Nepal will also play
few matches in New Zealand as the team will
directly leave for New Zealand from Sri Lanka
to participate in the qualifiers.
Here’s the schedule;
18th Dec- Practice at NCC ground
19th Dec- Match against Colombo
Colts
20th Dec- Match against Moors Sports
Club
21st Dec- Rest day
22nd Dec- Practice at NCC ground
23rd Dec- Practice at NCC ground
24th Dec- Match against Sri Lanka
Ports Authority Cricket Club
25th Dec- Practice at NCC ground
26th Dec- Match against Bloomfield
Sports Club.
Nepal’s squad for the tour and qualifiers:
Paras Khadka (c),Gyanendra Malla(vc),Subash
Khakurel(wk),Anil Mandal,Mahesh
Chettri,Sompal Kami, Prithu Baskota,Avinash
Karn,Basanta Regmi,Sagar Pun,Sarad
Veswakar,Binod Bhandari,Shakti
Gauchan,Jitendra Mukhiya.

Afghanistan mission accomplished says David Cameron

UK troops can come home from Afghanistan
knowing it was mission accomplished, David
Cameron has said as he visited the country.
The prime minister met forces stationed at
Camp Bastion in Helmand, a year before the last
British combat forces are due to leave the
country.
Mr Cameron, who ate breakfast with troops,
said a "basic level of security" had been
achieved.
They could "come home with their heads held
high", he added.
Senior military figures are braced for increased
activity as more troops pull out and expect
elections being staged next year to be a
particular focus for insurgent groups.
Asked by reporters if personnel were coming
home with the message "mission accomplished",
the prime minister, accompanied by former
England footballer Michael Owen, said: "Yes, I
think they do."
He added: "To me, the absolute driving part of
the mission is a basic level of security so it
doesn't become a haven for terror. That is the
mission, that was the mission and I think we
will have accomplished that mission and so our
troops can be very proud of what they have
done."
Mr Cameron's comments come two months
after Afghan president Hamid Karzai said there
was only "partial" security in the country and
foreign troops should have done more to target
safe havens in Pakistan.
They also echo former US President George W.
Bush's May 2003 declaration that the US role in
Iraq was "mission accomplished", only to see a
big increase in sectarian violence which lasted a
decade.
Al-Qaeda threat
Asked whether Mr Cameron's own comments
risked seeming premature, a No 10 spokesman
said he had not used the words "mission
accomplished" himself but had responded to a
question from a journalist accompanying him.
He had said the situation in Afghanistan was not
perfect, but the threats from terrorists had
decreased and "that's because of the
achievements of our armed forces".
As to whether the mission had been
accomplished, BBC security correspondent Frank
Gardner said the presence of UK and other
foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2001 had
stopped al-Qaeda cells from operating in the
country.
However he said there were already signs that
as US forces withdraw from some of the more
remote provinces in the north-east, al-Qaeda
were filtering back in, so in terms of
international terror (as opposed to insurgency
within the country which remains high), his
verdict was "12 years successful, future
uncertain".
Mr Cameron's brief visit was what has become a
traditional pre-Christmas prime ministerial trip.
He took a helicopter to a forward operating
base, Sterga 2, in the Nahr-e Saraj part of
Helmand, where he had lunch with a small
group of soldiers.
Around 5,200 British troops are now based in
Afghanistan, down from 9,000 at the start of
the year. There have been 446 British deaths
since operations began in 2001.
Speaking afterwards to journalists Mr Cameron
said: "The timetable for the withdrawal of
British troops is a plan that we will stick to. I
said, back in 2010, that after the end of 2014
there would not be British troops in a combat
role and we will stick to that.

Russia missile

European countries bordering Russia's
territory of Kaliningrad say they are worried
at reports that Moscow has put nuclear-
capable missiles there.
Lithuania and Poland both issued statements of
concern.
Russia has not confirmed the report but insists
it has every right to station missiles in its
western-most region.
Moscow has long threatened to move Iskander
short-range missile systems to Kaliningrad in
response to the United States' own European
missile shield.
Russia sees the missile shield as a threat to its
nuclear deterrent.
It was one of the biggest sources of
confrontation between Moscow and Washington
during the presidencies of George W Bush and
Vladimir Putin.
President Barack Obama tried to "reset"
relations with Russia, and the shield system was
revised - but it survived in a different form and
continued to antagonise Russia.
'No violation'
The US insists that the missile shield is not
aimed at Russia but designed to defend Europe
from attack from "rogue states" - assumed to
include Iran.
A Russian defence ministry spokesman, Igor
Konashenkov, did not confirm the report - in the
German newspaper Bild - that the Iskander
system had been deployed to Kaliningrad.
But he did say: "Iskander operational-tactical
missile systems have indeed been commissioned
by the Western Military District's missile and
artillery forces," adding that Russia's
deployment "does not violate any international
treaties or agreements".
The Western Military District includes parts of
western and north-western Russia, including the
Kaliningrad exclave, which is separated from
Russia proper and wedged between Poland,
Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea.
The Russian newspaper Izvestia reported on
Monday that the missiles had already been
stationed in the area for more than a year.
Lithuania's Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said:
"I am worried about signals that Russia is about
to modernise missile systems it has deployed in
Kaliningrad.
"Further militarisation of this region, bordering
the Baltic states and Nato, creates further
anxiety, and we will be watching the situation
there closely.''
The Polish foreign ministry said: "Plans to deploy
new Iskander-M rockets in [Kaliningrad] are
worrying."
It added that such a deployment "would
contradict effective Polish-Russian co-operation,
in particular with respect to this region, and
undermine constructive dialogue between Nato
and Russia. We will raise this topic in our
bilateral contacts with the Russian side."