As we have seen this year, the great performance of Nepal Womens Cricket Team at Hong Kong in ICC Women’s World Cup 2017 i.e Asia Qualifier 2016 started on October 2016 against the teams like China, Thailand and Hong Kong. With just few weeks of practice before the game yet they managed to Qualify to Asia Cup 2016.
Here is the Performance at Asian Qualifier 2016 Tournament:
1) Most Runs: Nary Thapa scored 111 runs in 6 matches at an average of 22.20 and at an strike rate of 94.06 with 9 fours and 3 sixes along with Mariko Hill (Hong Kong) skipper who took scored 111 runs in 6 matches at an average of 22.20 and at an strike rate of 111.00 with 15 fours and 1 six.
2) Most Wickets: Karuna Bhandari took 9 wickets in 6 matches in 19.0 overs at an economy of 3.89 with best of 4/15 and secured 4th in the list of most wicket in the tournament.
3) Most Dismissal by WicketKeeper: Jyoti Pandey tops the list with 7 dismissal (3 catches and 4 stumpings).
4) Most Catches: Nirmala Shahi (6th position) with 3 catches in the tournament and Thailand Sornnarin Tippoch (1st position) with 5 catches.
5) Most Runouts Dismissal of Particular Team: 12 number of batsman has been runout from Nepal in 6 matches and most is of China with 14 runouts.
6) Extra Runs: Nepal had given the least extra 55 runs in the tournament (Byes: 9, Legbyes: 3, Wide: 35 and Noball: 8) whereas China had given 59 extra runs (Byes: 1, Legbyes: 8, Wide: 36 and Noball: 7), Hong Kong had given 61 runs (Byes: 4, Legbyes: 6, Wide: 47 and Noball: 4) and Thailand had given the most extra 75 runs in the tournament (Byes: 7, Legbyes: 1, Wide: 63 and Noball: 4).
But at the Asia Cup 2016, Nepal Womens literally failed to perform and finished at the last spot in the points table on November 2016 at Thailand against teams like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Nepal Women Batting Averages in Asia Cup 2016:
| Player | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | SR | 100 | 50 | 0 | 4s | 6s |
| Jyoti Pandey | 5 | 5 | 0 | 43 | 16 | 8.60 | 39.81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Rubina Chhetri | 5 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 11 | 5.80 | 29.89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sita Rana Magar | 5 | 5 | 0 | 29 | 15 | 5.80 | 60.41 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Indu Barma | 4 | 4 | 0 | 18 | 9 | 4.50 | 46.15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Sarita Magar | 4 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2.75 | 27.50 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Karuna Bhandari | 5 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2.20 | 25.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sangita Rai | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1.50 | 25.00 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Nary Thapa | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 1.40 | 17.94 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Neera Rajopadhyay | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1.33 | 18.18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Kajol Shrestha | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1.00 | 10.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Roshani Bohara | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.50 | 5.55 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rashmi Chaulagain | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.50 | 20.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Saraswati Kumari | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0* | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sabnam Rai | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0* | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Sobha Aale | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Nepal Women Bowling Averages in Asia Cup 2016:
| Player | Mat | Inns | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | BBI | Ave | Econ | SR | 4 | 5 | Ct | St |
| Karuna Bhandari | 5 | 5 | 17.0 | 0 | 69 | 2 | 1/6 | 34.50 | 4.05 | 51.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sita Rana Magar | 5 | 4 | 15.0 | 0 | 61 | 2 | 1/12 | 30.50 | 4.06 | 45.0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Rubina Chhetri | 5 | 5 | 16.0 | 1 | 93 | 4 | 2/21 | 23.25 | 5.81 | 24.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sarita Magar | 4 | 2 | 6.0 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 2/13 | 18.50 | 6.16 | 18.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sabnam Rai | 3 | 3 | 5.0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | – | – | 6.40 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sangita Rai | 4 | 3 | 6.3 | 0 | 46 | 2 | 2/31 | 23.00 | 7.07 | 19.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Saraswati Kumari | 4 | 2 | 5.0 | 0 | 50 | 0 | – | – | 10.00 | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Roshani Bohara | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Rashmi Chaulagain | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Nary Thapa | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 |
| Jyoti Pandey | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 1 |
| Neera Rajopadhyay | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Kajol Shrestha | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Sobha Aale | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 |
| Indu Barma | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 0 |
Lost all the 5 games they had played by big margin and apart from 3 players in the whole tournament no other player scored double digit and highest score was only 16 by Jyoti Pandey in 5 matches. The same team managed to perform so well in the Qualifiers but failed to perform in Aisa Cup 2016. Just few weeks before match practice makes them perform so well but everytime the stage won’t be the same and opponents too. And we fans are busy criticizing them about their performance in social networking sites.
But when we look to Mens Cricket, because of issues still they have not got the right facilities to develope their own talents and a good domestic structure but what they are getting is much more more than Womens Cricket Players. Recently they played 2nd Ruslan Cup and Dhangadhi Premier League (DPL) auction happened and players bought at huge amounts and soon DPL will start. But have you ever thought “what about Nepal Womens Cricket Team” because they hardly get to play any domestic matches apart from National games.
Apart from having games and when Nepal Womens win or loose, I haven’t seen anyone or any player posting in social sites, or talking in interview about developing about Womens Cricket.
Our only Question is: Why is there no sponsors to invest in womens cricket and no games organized for Womens like Mens are playing every year like Ruslan Cup, DPL, SPA, NPL, etc.?
I know its off topic but I had recently watched the movie Dangal and find an awesome quote that “mari choriya choro se kam hai ka” means “you think our girls are any lesser than boys?“