After a thumpin win against Germany on friday, Nepal is playing Mozambique today. Nepal is the tournament favourite along side political ivals USA and Afghanistan.
Nepal will be playing at Victoria College Ground at Jersey.

Best of Luck.

(Best of Luck to the Nepali National Football side too, who is playing Macau today at Combodia)

Alam got his 9th

Mozambique are 19-9 after 14.3 overs. Target rivised again. Nepal should try to win by 219 runs.

ALAM deserves 10th wicket too....

Mozambique lost to Gyanendra Malla by 52 runs.
Mehboob alam gets 10 wickets in one day match. World record.

Alam takes all 10.....

CONGRATULATIONS

5 bowled
4 LBW
1 Caught behind by wicketkeeper

NEPAL WON BY 219 runs....
WHAT A DAY
I AM THRILLED....
BEST EVER DAY IN NEPALI CRICKET

sorry i missed the score card.  Mozambique lost to Alam by 4 runs ( Alam scored 23 not out runs in 13 balls ) and ten wickets.

Cricket Europe comments::

That was a truly extraordinary hour's cricket. Alam bowled straight and true, and the Mozambican batsmen had no answer to his control. A superb effort!

I think it is a world record for Limited Overs cricket. I don't think anyone has ever taken 10 wickets in Limited Overs match.

Can anyone verify this?

I know 3 bowlers have taken all 10 wickets in an innings in Test match including Anil Kumble ,,, but cannot remember if anyone has taken that in limited over matches.

Does this match count as List A match or not??
It would definately be a sort of record.

It will count at a List A match since 2 international sides are involved.

In test cricket only 2 players have taken 10 wickets in an innings. In a first class match, there are couple more, the latest one being Ottis Gibson in some county match in England last year.

I think we will know about the record from cricinfo news website very soon.

News from CricketEurope
http://www.cricketeurope4.net/DATABASE/ARTICLES2/articles/000034/003455.shtml

 

hahhaha what a game man...........!!!!

Alam rocks
Nepal rocks

Great Nepal Go Nepal Go

25 May 2008

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Nepal’s left-arm seamer Mahaboob Alam produced an extraordinary performance at Grainville on Sunday, taking all ten wickets at a cost of 12 runs as Mozambique were bowled out for 19 in 14.5 overs.

Alam was on a hat-trick three times in the course of his 7.5 overs, and finished off the innings with four wickets – three of them bowled – in six balls.

He bowled straight and full throughout his spell, and four of his victims were out leg-before.

Remarkably, in the first attempt to play the match on Saturday, in which Mozambique had been bowled out for 70 before the rain descended, Alam had contributed a wicketless five-over spell as Binod Das and Basant Regmi each collected five-wicket hauls.

But on Sunday he was not to be denied, and the Mozambicans had no answer to his mastery of line and length.

Mozambique were chasing a Nepalese total of 238 for seven, which represented a good recovery after they had been 30 for three at one stage. Imtiyaz Lili picked up two wickets and Aasif Koliya one, but then Shakti Gauchan and Gyanendra Malla restored the innings with a fourth-wicket stand of 73.

Gauchan went for 34, but Malla continued in partnership with Paras Khadka, adding 80 for the fifth wicket.

Khadka was the next to go, after making 44 off 50 balls with two fours and a six, and Malla was finally out for 71, made from 101 balls with four boundaries.

Alam and Basant Regmi pushed the total up to 234, and it had reached 238 by the close.

Koliya was the most successful of the Nepalese bowlers with three for 49.

The Nepalese total always seemed likely to be too much for Mozambique, but nobody could have reckoned with Alam’s unbelievable achievement. There wasn’t too much doubt about who would win the Man of the Match award.

Here comes the TIGER

Amazing.... I would prefer ...

HERE COMES THE RHINO

P W NR L Pts NRR
Nepal 2 2 0 0 4
USA 2 2 0 0 4
Norway 2 1 0 1 2
Germany 2 1 0 1 2
Vanuatu 2 0 0 2 0
Mozambique 2 0 0 2 0


P W NR L Pts NRR
Afghanistan 2 2 0 0 4
Jersey 2 2 0 0 4
Singapore 2 1 0 1 2
Botswana 2 1 0 2 2
Bahamas 2 0 0 2 0
Japan 2 0 0 2 0

Lets party my cricketing friends Gyanguru and No_Quiero. Its time to rock...

Cheers guys and Congrats to all the Nepali fans

TY amazing.   Nepal completed the formality of winning today. But what's impressive is how we won. But we should remember we have probably stronger opponent USA in the same group. They won by ten wickets against a comparatively  strong team of Norway. Nepal vs USA on 28th of May. What a game that would be.

Monday 26 May

USA v Vanuatu (Grainville)
Nepal v Norway (Farmers Field)
Germany v Mozambique (Victoria College)

Tuesday 27 May

USA v Germany (Grainville)
Nepal v Vanuatu (Victoria College)
Norway v Mozambique (Les Quennevais 1)

Wednesday 28 May
USA v Nepal (Les Quennevais 1)
Norway v Germany (Les Quennevais 2)
Vanuatu v Mozambique (FB Fields)

World Cricket League Division Five 2nd round

Alam secures the perfect ten

Cricinfo staff

May 25, 2008

	Mahaboob Alam completes his ten-wicket haul © ICC

Nepal's left-arm seamer Mahaboob Alam produced an extraordinary performance in on the third day of the ICC World Cricket League Division 5, taking all ten wickets against Mozambique.

Alam was on a hat-trick three times in the course of his 7.5 overs, and finished off the innings with four wickets - three of them bowled - in six balls as Nepal blew away Mozambique for 19 as they secured a 219-run win. In a dismal batting display, nine of the Mozambique batsmen were dismissed for 0, with five bowled, four lbw and one caught by Mahesh Chhetri.

"I never thought I would get 10 wickets. I managed to get the ball starting to swing for me and then I thought I was in with a chance of getting wickets" said 26-year-old Alam. "Once I got my eighth wicket, I thought I could get all 10 in the match. I did think the bowler at the end may get one or two wickets as he was getting the ball to skid on but fortunately for me he couldn't get a wicket. I am very happy.

"I really believe we have a chance in this event as everybody is performing. Our batting is coming good and we are in with a good chance of winning the tournament."

Nepal's captain Binod Kumar Das paid tribute to his bowler's amazing performance and admitted he had played in a game with Alam before when he was on the verge of getting ten wickets only for Das himself to take wickets at the other end to dash the hopes of his colleague.

"I am absolutely thrilled to bits as a guy taking ten wickets doesn't happen in cricket regularly and I'm absolutely delighted to be part of that as it was a remarkable performance by Mahaboob Alam. He deserves a lot of credit for that."

© Cricinfo

Perfect 10 for Alam

Cricket europe have created a special photo album for him.

1st Wicket: Imran Kheriya is bowled

2nd Wicket: Nadir Karim is bowled

3rd Wicket: Mohamad Sidat is lbw

4th Wicket: Zainil Gulam is hit in front...

5th Wicket: Korava is next to go..

6th Wicket: ..once again Sanjeev Kad puts the dreaded finger up

7th Wicket: Shah edges to wicketkeeper

8th Wicket: Puspussen is bowled

9th Wicket: Aasif Koliya becomes victim number 9

Last but not the least:  History is made as Lili is bowled by Mahaboob Alam to finish with analysis of 10-12

Then the wild RHINOS celebrations::::

Man of the Era:  David Jukes presents MOM and Match ball to Mahaboob Alam