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Pubudu Dassanayake in Nepalese Cap

Former Sri Lankan test player who later joined Canadian national team and led them to World Cup as a coach and captain was appointed Nepal National Cricket Team’s head coach in late 2011. Since then Mr. Dassanayake has given international success to Nepalese cricket winning Asia’s biggest non-test nations ACC Elite Trophy 2012, promoting Nepal to division three by winning ICC World division four trophy in Malaysia and finishing 7th in World T20 final qualifiers in 2012 among world’s 16 best association nations. We, cricketfootball.com had causal interview over all the professional and personal issues. Excerpts.

Hello coach, pleasure to talk to you after a long time.
Oh ya its good to talk to you again.

How are you feeling in Nepal these days? Do you find here as cold as in Canada?
Its good. sometime its chilly in the evening otherwise its good.

I remember last time when we talked you were just appointed Nepal’s head coach and you had not even been to Nepal. and you told us you wanted to come to Nepal with two missions, first to qualify Nepal for World T20 2012 final qualifiers and to promote to division three. And yes, you achieved both those missions.
Yes, that’s right. I remember. Read more

Pubudu Dassanayake believes he can take Nepal to another level of cricket.

Excerpts

How did you decide to be a coach of Nepal?
After world cup 2011 I stepped down as a coach of Canada. Then I came to know that Roy Dias will no longer be with of Nepal. At the same time, I got connected with Mr. Binay and after a few email exchanges I showed my interest. I heard a lot good things about Nepali Cricket through my colleague Rumesh Ratnayake who was ACC development manager (current Sri Lankan Coach) then other Sri Lankan colleagues of mine have also high regards for Nepali Cricket. They told that Nepali cricket has very high scope to reach another level. And I am kind of person who take challenges, it was also similar situation when I took charge of Canada, I got them through qualifiers and finally into World Cup. Read more

After four decades of involvement and developing cricket in Nepal, soft-spokena businessman Mr. Binay Raj Pandey was appoined as a President of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) in 2006. Exquisitely mannered president is also a founder member of Nepal Olympic Committee, and former college champion of badminton. Mr. Pandey politely accepted our request for interview.

President of Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) and Vice-President of Asian Cricket Council (ACC)

Here is our EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW.

Can you tell us about newly appointed coach Pubudu Dasanayake ?
He is a former Sri Lankan Test Player and had coached Canada and is very interested to associate with Nepalese Cricket.

Why did CAN go with him? Fans wanted to have something different, coaches from other countries such as India?
He led Canada to World Cup, he has experience of coaching Canada which is higher ranked than Nepal, hence we believe he can take Nepal to another level in Cricket. Yes, we discussed about having Indian coach but India itself is a big market so all the coaches want to get engage there. Similarly, we are not in a position to afford very good Indian coach. Read more

U19 Cricket Team on Dublin Day Trip with NRN Ireland.

U-19 mega cricket event is over and we are qualified for World Cup. Thousands of Nepali Cricket Fans all over the world cheered, supported and followed match virtually when every ball/every over was updated on many websites and social networking sites. Many of us have no any idea or even do not bother to know how it was possible because not all the matches were updated on cricinfo, cricket Ireland or even ICC webpages. To make the things worse not any Nepali media travelled with team. Read more

Your own CricketFootball.com caught up prominent member of national squad and Nepal’s most reliable batsman Sharad Vesawkar. Currently, an Armed Forced player is busy in England representing Mumbai based Cricket Club; Jay Shree Cricket Club. We talked on various issues from personal to professional.

Sharad Vesawkar having some relaxed time in UK.

Here are the excerpts.

Are you missing Nepal in UK?
It has just been a couple of weeks that I am out of Nepal. So if something good to say, yes I miss my home made food, and something bad then its got to be the polluted air of Kathmandu (laughs….)

How long is your UK tour and how is your personal performance so far?
-The tour is of 3 weeks approximately and is almost over now. I played eight matches till now. Well, the performance so far has been good for me, hoping to do better every game. Read more