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KATHMANDU

    KATHMANDU, May 23: Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) has informed that a team led by Prithu Baskota would play the 31st All India Uttarakhand Gold Cup Cricket Tournament in Dehradun on the name of CAN XI. CAN organized a press conference on Thursday and informed that the team would leave for Dehradun via Dhangadhi.

Only seven players of the national team that clinched the ICC World Cricket League Division 3 are included in the 14-member team of CAN XI. "Captain Paras Khadka, Gyanendra Malla and Basant Regmi are in process to play professional cricket in Canada. Sharad Vesawkar, Rahul Vishwakarma and Subash Khakurel are injured while two bowlers, Amrit Bhattarai and Sanjam Regmi, have been are rested," said Ashok Nath Pyakuryal, the general secretary of CAN.

    KATHMANDU, May 23: Region No 1 (Biratnagar) and Region No 4 (Bhairahawa) stormed into the semifinals of Wai Wai Women´s U-19 National Cricket Tournament.

An unbeaten half-century from player-of-the-match Kajol Shrestha helped Biratnagar thrash Region No 8 (Pokhara) by 96 runs on Thursday at the TU Cricket Ground while Indu Berma´s all-round performance sealed a six-run victory for Region No 4 (Bhairahawa) over Region No 6 (Baitadi).
Biratnagar and Bhairahawa will lock horns on Friday to decide the winner and runner-up of the group B while already crashed out teams Baitadi and Pokhara will vie for a consolation win.

    KATHMANDU, May 23: Machhindra Club thrashed Simrik Saraswati Youth Club 6-1 in the opening match of the Gurukha Cup, knockout football tournament, on a rainy Thursday at the Dasharath Stadium.

Karna Limbu scored a hat-trick to seal the emphatic victory over Saraswati. The rain turned the ground waterlogged and affected the second half, where Machhindra scored four goals.

    KATHMANDU, May 22: Simrik Saraswati Youth Club will take on A division rival Machhindra Club at the Dasharath Stadium as the new season of Nepali football begins with the Gurkha Cup on Thursday. However, the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) has postponed the match between Nepal Police Club and Munal Club, Jhapa until further notice.

Defending champion Police and A Division District League champion Munal were scheduled to play the opening match of the Gurkha Cup on Thursday. However, the Jhapa-based team had not been able to arrive in Kathmandu until Wednesday evening due to strikes in different parts of eastern Tarai. Issuing a press statement on Wednesday, ANFA has cited technical reason behind postponing the match.

    KATHMANDU, May 22: Indian karatekas are on course for a clean sweep of medals in the Seventh International NSKA Karate Championship with a majority of players from the neighboring country securing berths in the semifinals of the tournament on Wednesday.

In the kumute section, India´s Harsha Bhardwaj and Aayush made it to the last four of boys´ 20 kg weight category winning their respective matches held at the Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu.

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