MCC Women’s team to tour Nepal for 6 Matches

The Marylebone Cricket Membership (MCC) girls’s workforce are heading to Nepal on the twenty first of October the place they’re scheduled to play 6 video games which embody a recreation in opposition to an Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Below-19 Squad chosen from Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Bhutan, Qatar and hosts Nepal, as a part of the ICC Asia U19 Girls’s Cricket Scholarship Programme.

MCC’s fifth and last tour of 2022 will see the facet play 6 matches through the tour of Nepal. In Kathmandu, they are going to play a 40-over match and a T20 match in opposition to a workforce with a mixture of gamers from the total Nepalese nationwide facet and their Below-19 squad. Matches shall be performed on the Tribhuvan College Worldwide Cricket Floor and the Mulpani Floor.

The tour then strikes north-west to Pokhara, the facet there may be scheduled to play an extra 4 (various, T20 and 40-over) fixtures in opposition to sides put collectively by the Cricket Affiliation of Nepal (CAN). All 4 video games shall be held on the Pokhara Rangashala Floor. The second leg of the tour will contain a number of teaching periods, because the squad look to encourage native kids and schoolchildren in enjoying the sport. The Membership shall be working intently with MCC Basis (MCCF) Cricket With out Boundaries and the CAN to ship these periods.

Jamie Cox, Director of Cricket Operations at MCC, stated, “Our abroad touring programme continues to be an essential phase of the Membership’s Cricket Technique, and after the challenges of the pandemic it has been notably pleasing for us to go to 5 international locations this 12 months.

“With the ability to ship a girls’s squad to Nepal highlights the Membership’s dedication to our girls’s enjoying programme, which goals to extend enjoying alternatives for our feminine Members each at residence and overseas. It is usually improbable for us to have the ability to help the good work that the MCC Basis has been enterprise in Nepal over a variety of years.”

Nepal girls’s workforce final performed a recreation through the Asian Cricket Council Girls’s T20 Championship mid this 12 months the place they registered 3 straight wins in opposition to Bhutan, Kuwait and Bahrain earlier than struggling their lone defeat within the match to Hong Kong. The facet’s final recreation within the match didn’t have an final result, as a consequence of rain.

MCC Girls final performed a few T20I video games in opposition to Pakistan on the twenty seventh of July on the Dorridge Cricket Membership, however didn’t register a win. It solely was a number of days earlier, that the facet made their first go to to Eire the place the MCC girls performed a few white-ball matches in opposition to Eire Girls’s Choose XI and Leinster President’s XI.

MCC’s SQUAD FOR NEPAL TOUR :

Jennie Kitzinger(C), Abbie Whybrow, Shweta Chaudhuri, Sarah Cray, Jolene Foster, Isabelle Gurney, Elysa Hubbard, Amanda Potgieter, Rachael Potter, Ria Raval, Mia Rogers and Sophie McLelland

Claire Taylor (Participant/Supervisor), Saba Nasim (Assistant Participant Supervisor) and Marilyn Smith (Participant scorer)

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