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Crushing disappointment for Nepal women’s national team

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Sports aficionados  witnessed  the first  international  football tournament of 2025  held in Kathmandu recently. The Four  Nation  International Women’s  Championship organized  by the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) featured Nepal,Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar. The competition provided hosts Nepal a golden opportunity to end their frustrating championship drought. As a matter of fact,they have been without a  trophy since their competitive journey began almost four decades ago. They have been close to  winning their maiden title umpteenth times,only to fall at the last hurdle.They have lacked the ability to close out the game when it mattered most. The last  two editions of the  Women’s South Asian Federation Football  Championship hosted by Nepal in recent years,serve  as  a clear  example to illustrate this fact. On both occasions,they squandered their chances and  fell short ...
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Nepal women team underperforms

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The recently concluded Women’s  Twenty20 Triangular series, organized  by the Cricket  Association of Nepal in Kathmandu,was a huge disappointment for  Nepal. Impressive Thailand convincingly prevailed over Netherlands for the title.They ended the tournament with five wins and one defeat.   The Netherlands finished  second with four  wins and two defeats,both of  which came at the hands of Thailand. However,they managed  to end  the champions’ winning streak by winning a game. Team Nepal went into the competition confident and strongly motivated to prove themselves in front of  supporters.Home fans had high hopes for what was to come. Unarguably,they faced formidable opponents in Thailand and the Netherlands.The odds were stacked against them, and they were up against a daunting challenge. They were fully aware of the fact that they stood a chance of upsetting the apple cart only if they consistently performed at their bes...
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Nepal fall short in Women’s Under-19 World Cup

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  The women’s Under-19 national cricket  team of Nepal exited the ICC Twenty20 World Cup cricket championship in Malaysia,following three successive defeats. Despite their best efforts they went down to Bangladesh,Scotland and Australia in the  league cum knockout stage. They lost  rather convincingly to Bangladesh and Australia.Their best performance was against Scotland.They came tantalizingly close to register their first win,but they agonizingly fell short by a wicket at the end. Nepal did break the losing streak by getting the better of hosts  Malaysia in the 4th place playoff game and ended the tournament on a winning note. They put on an impressive performance to win the duel by seven wickets.After restricting the opposition to a paltry total of 45 runs in 16.5 overs,they cruised to victory in 11 overs for the loss of three overs. Batting failure largely contributed to the setback for the team in the group stage.Comparatively the bowling was much b...
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