Disconnected thoughts reflecting cricket and events surrounding the game
Cricket has long been a sport with potential but with defeats in key matches earned Nepal a nickname of chokers. The dream of playing World Cup almost forgotten, Nepal hosted World Cricket League Division 5 – a step of the World Cup qualification and won it.
Nepal almost choked again after four comprehensive wins. It did lost to USA in the last league match and hadn’t there was crowd trouble, Nepal was more likely to be out of final.
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Unruly crowd behavior! Well, many called it Kathmandu Riot. We were on the receiving side and members of the country which looked like benefitting from the situation. Whatever I told others – those not present in TU Ground – about the event, accurately, believed that I was trying to cut down badness of the events.
An American journalist who was live covering the game wrote – he felt there was police firing teargas – and everyone believed it [despite the journalist himself writing, later, that it was not true]. And, people seemed to believe 12,000 spectators invaded the ground while nobody entered the ground.
There were many who wrote as if the situation was fully intentional and calculated by spectators [the truth is even ICC was not clear on who reached the final more than half-an-hour after the completion of the match].
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I am not defending what happened at TU.
I felt sorry for Singapore too who looked like suffered most from it.
But I do not agree that Nepal’s cricket should be punished. The situation was under control within 15 minutes, not even a single person was injured, even minor. If there are thousands of people at the ground, there can be minor scuffles – always.
And, ICC is reportedly in a quandary:
As for the ICC, it is in a difficult position. If it fails to act then there is a danger it sets a precedent for crowds to disrupt matches if doing so will benefit their side. Against that, it will not want to stamp down to heavily on a country where cricket has really taken hold.
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And, ICC – the organizer of the event – became irrational a couple of time. First, they wanted media to sign a media accreditation contract that was suited when the event was sold to TV, radio and internet for live coverage. After informal/indirect request yielded nothing, we have to go formally via Nepal Sports Journalists Forum and threaten to boycott their press conference. Then they were ok and look, what coverage the event got, without anyone complaining.
The cricket rule-book say local conditions may apply; and looked like ICC had not understood the application outside the boundary.
Another time: ICC media manager disrupted an interview with Nepal’s coach Roy Dias more than half-an-hour after the conclusion of final and end of prize distribution ceremony telling us that we could only talk to him when they say ‘ok, here you go.’
Totally illogical!
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So far, Nepal had only failed to win two of the tournaments that it has hosted – the 1998 ACC Trophy and 2007 ACC U-15 Trophy when all teams – except two – were disqualified for fielding overage players.
Is there a translation for Ghar ko bagh…?
Right now, the ACC U-16 Elite Cup is going on and hopefully Nepal continue to be tiger at home.
And, hopefully, one day, Nepal will be playing in the World Cup!
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A topic I would like to discuss.
I do not feel proud of what happened at TU that day. It was a bad day for Nepalese cricket as a whole, for what ever matter, the match had to be stopped for half an hour.
I would like to know how did it started. The rumors are that the live TV broadcast announced that Nepal lost on NetRunRate to Singapore than the crowd went wild. Is that the case? This article says, there was nothing like what has been said in media, no injuries, no police tear gas, no thousands of spectators in ground. Then, why was the match stopped. Cricinfo, reported that rain delayed the match in the beginning, then it changed to crowd trouble. What was the reason behind, the match official stopping the game for half an hour. There must have been a good cause.
ICC itself was not aware of the results half an hour after the match completed. WAS THAT THE TRUE CASE? Calculating NRR is not a rocket science, and ICC, the world governing body should not be that dumb to not to know the result even after half an hour after the completion of the match.
Singapore may feel extremely unlucky after having to get relegated after loosing only one match last year and loosing the promotion spot on NRR after a controversial match played by other teams. My heart goes for them. But, does anyone really think Singapore were better team than Nepal and USA in the series? Personally, I do not think so. But there could be other who would argue my view.
The match was stopped because the spectators threw plastic bottles, mud boulds and bricks on the ground.
I don’t think there was any announcement in live TV as all media were trying to find out the correct equation from somebody official. There was not any official work on NRR.
its gud that uzwalji is writing truth here but internationally there r many false news n accusation like in cricketeurope.com. so CAN must clear alll these things!!
not a matter to be proud of. But, going to division 4 is certainly better than not.
I know for sure the hooliganism was uncalled for, and for sure it couldn’t have been a calculated effort to scrape Nepal through to the finals!! But, as a lover of the game and more importantly as a Nepalese, I really am shameful and condemn that act. It just proves that we are bad losers. Its one thing winning game after the other and cheering your team, but we Nepalese also should learn to be graceful when we face defeats.
Having said all this, I am hoping ICC will take a sensible decision and not go by just the emotions and punish Nepal only to the extend that the game’s progress in the country doesn’t take a setback!! To prevent any such thing from happening in the future, ICC and CAN have to take necessary steps and such crowd behavior should not be tolerated at all. I sincerely hope that our dreams of reaching Division 3 and further ahead is not dashed by some foolish act of a few irresponsible personnel in the crowd!
Love Cricket, Live Cricket.
The spectators were didn’t knew about the NRR things during that match. Yeah! the game was disrupted but it was not intentional rather the image of these yanks are worth being hit by stones hehe!! More than that we’re in Div. 4 🙂
As a part of the crowd, I would like to explain some details redarding what actually happened that day. Almost everyone there had mobile sets with fm radio. Some were busy listening to the radio and flashing out the details of Singapore-Jersey match. A bad news ran into our ears – Singapore chased it’s target of 193 (or around) in 26 overs and reached the finals with a drastic improvement in their NRR because of the quick chase. Another information was circulated among the crowd – if Nepal could stop USA till 38.5 overs, Nepal would qualify for the finals exceeding the NRR of USA. Then crowd was patiently waiting to see whether Nepal can hold them till the 39th over. The game was slowly moving out of control from Nepal’s hand. Suddenly, 3 consecutive sixes were smashed off Basanta’s over. This completely ruined crowd’s hope of seeing their team in Div 4. There was frustration and anger in the crowd and some couldn’t control it. The bottles in their hands and stones and brick pieces scattered here and there in the stadium started making way onto the ground disturbing the play. But, it wasn’t an intentional effort to push Nepal into the finals, rather it was spontaneous outcome of frustation, anger and pain of defeat. No one in the crowd neither had the objective of disturbing the play nor knew that D/L method would be applied and Nepal will be benefitted. This is all that happened that day. So, in my view it’s not the crowd’s fault but it’s CAN’s. They should have ensured that such bricks and stones of material size are not in access of the spectators. Rolling the pitch and outfield only doen’t complete the role of an organizor. I hope that ICC doesn’t take any decisiom against Nepalese cricket. However, CAN must be fined and strictly warned for it’s carelessness.
I too condemn all those things that was done that day.
But i am too happy to see the support of Nepali people for cricket.
In a country where football was everything, now there seem to be a good fan following of Cricket too and i am sure official of ICC must be happy to see the stadiums jam packed in Nepal’s match.
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