ACC U-19 Elite Cup: Nepal marks second victory

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KATHMANDU, Nov 27 - Nepal registered its second victory over Thailand with a whopping eight wickets on the third day of the ACC U-15 Elite Cup 2007 on Tuesday.At Birendra Sainik Awasiya Mahavidyalaya (BSAM) Ground in Bhaktapur, Nepal bolstered its feet to advance in the next round with the impressive victory.
Thailand was bowled out for a mere 59 runs in 22.3 overs. Nepal tore Thailand’s target of 60 runs in just 13.2 overs with two wickets at stake. Thailand was given to bat first by the Nepali team after Nepali team won the toss. The Nepali captain Prithu Baskota bestowed the most 24 runs and Nischal Chaudhary 14 runs. Similarly Akash Singh Pariyar furnished 12 runs and Sagar Pun gave 1 run.
Man of the Match Samir Nepal took six wickets and Bhuwan Karki and Pradeep Airi shared two wickets each.
Nepal will be facing Oman on Wednesday on its third match.
Meanwhile, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) jerked the UAE team from the competition saying the team registered its players by not following the rules. Citing that the on going matches would be troubled, ACC decided not to let the Arabian team play other games beside the group B matches.
The Arabian team was suspended as it defied the ACC rule of involving at least two players of the 11 years from his own country, said the organizers. With the suspension, other teams of group B are in advantage.



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U-15 Elite cup ho.
19 hoina..
I went to see the todays match at IOE,
What a batch it was..
Oman really played great game of cricket against a country having home crowd.
crowd at IOE was great..
Mehta played a great game and the Captain too.
bhannu parda ek stage ma nepal ta haryo jasto thiyo..
20 overs 110 for 3 Oman.. and the target was 189
but the last over was great by Bhuwan.
A madian over at edge.
great. game ...
4 on 5

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BAD NEWS


Following the age-verification program of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC), eight teams including Nepal have been disqualified from the ACC U-15 Elite Cup 2007. With only two teams - Singapore and Kuwait remaining eligible, they will contest in the final on Monday, Dec 3.

Here is the complete ACC Press Release issued on Saturday evening:

ACC PRESS RELEASE

U-15 ACC ELITE AGE-VERIFICATION PROGRAM RESULTS ISSUED

Kuala Lumpur, December 1 2007

The results of the Age-Verification Program conducted in Nepal during the ACC U-15 Elite Cup have been released. 140 radiology examinations have been conducted in Nepal since the teams’ arrival with all the players from the ten participating teams.

The Asian Cricket Council Age-Verification Program has been in place for all age-group competitions since May 2005. It was introduced to ensure that all competitors would be meeting on a fair and equitable basis on the criteria of actual age. Age-discrepancies among competitors lead to performance advantages for older players and injury-risks for the younger ones. The Asian Cricket Council’s U-15 Tournaments, as with its U-17 and U-19 tournaments are held to be just that – for those players who are the appropriate age.

As it is commonly understood that in Asia, many players and Associations are unaware of their actual date of birth, the Age-Verification program establishes a player’s bone-age maturity using the Assessment of Skeletal Maturity-TW3 method.

The cut-off date for players’ birthdates is July 1,1992 for this tournament. No player with a physiological or administrative age earlier than this date is eligible to play in the 2007 ACC U-15 tournament.

All countries were asked to provide the appropriate medical data on each of their players before the tournament started. They did not comply. Following bone-age examinations of all players in Kathmandu, a number from all the participating teams – Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Singapore and Thailand - have been found to be over the age-limit criteria.

Each participating country consists of 14 squad-members. In the instances where more than two players in each squad have been found to be over-age, those teams have been disqualified from the competition.

Following the conclusion of the group stage on November 30, the only two countries with less than three over-age players in their squads are Kuwait and Singapore. In some instances, participating squads have had seven, eight and nine over-age players.

With the tournament having passed the group-stages, that leaves only Kuwait and Singapore eligible for further competition. It is they who will contest the Final on Monday December 3rd .

Syed Ashraful Huq the Chief Executive of the Asian Cricket Council said, “Our Age-Verification protocols have been tested and proven to work. We stand by the results found and take heart that the integrity of our tournaments is assured. In the long-run cricket in Asia will benefit. Results such as this should act as an eye-opener to all our members. Our principles will always remain true to the secure development of cricket.”

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what a shame yaar!!i thought Nepal will win the trophy...all hopes gone in vain!!!