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Nepal’s 2026 sporting calendar year  kicks off with the women’s national cricket team of  Nepal in action in the ICC Women’s Twenty20 Global Qualifier starting on January 18th in Kathmandu. This is the first time Cricket  Association of Nepal(CAN) is hosting a women’s  international tournament of this magnitude and scale involving ten teams from across the world.   The preliminary two group matches will be staged  simultaneously in  the International Tribhuvan University ground and Upper Mulpani cricket ground.   After the completion of the  round robin preliminary stage, the top three teams from each  group move to the Super Sixes.   The six teams will fight out for the four spots at stake in Super Sixes for a place in the championship round.   Nepal is in  Group  B alongside the Netherlands,Scotland,Thailand and Zimbabwe. While Group A consists of Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Namibia and the United St...

    In retrospect,the year 2025 did not go down well for Nepal football on all fronts much to sports aficionadoes frustration  and disappointment. The  development of  football in terms of infrastructural and facilities enhancement, consolidation of grassroots and youth football remained static. In fact, the long-standing systemic issues that have not been resolved by the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) continue to hinder the football development process in a big way. On the field there was no significant headway made  especially by the men’s national teams across all age groups when it came to performance and delivering results. To put it in other words,it was a tale  of struggle,underperformance and failure to get their act together for the most part. I don’t  totally blame players for their mediocre performance and inability  to deliver results.The truth of the matter is that they made every effort to make a positive impac...