In Focus, Nepal Men

Pradhan returns Japan

Kathmandu – Rajkumar Pradhan, the Veteran Spinner of Nepali Cricket team has left the closed camp scheduled for the upcoming 17th Asian Games and returned to Japan.

The upcoming assignment for the national team is the 17th Asian Games to be held in Incheon, Korea from 19th September to 4th October 2014. Nepalese Cricket team are in camp from 6th August in Kathmandu.

Pradhan, 38, was also in the squad for the Asian games but he ignored the closed camp and informed Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) about his departure.

He has already informed Skipper Paras Khadka though he is in England.

In 2002, Pradhan made his debut in Asian Cricket Council Trophy in Singapore.

For the first instant, the Men’s team will be without the head coach Pubudu Dassanayake. Arun Aryal who coaches the Tribhuvan Army Nepal club will fulfill the coaching job.

The selected Men’s players for the closed camp includes Paras Khadka, Gyanendra Malla, Sharad Vesawkar, Subhash Prasad Khakurel, Shakti Prasad Gauchan, Sagar Pun, Binod Bhandari, Sompal Kami, Mahaboob Alam, Naresh Bahadur Budhayer, Basant Regmi, Rahul Kumar Vishwakarma, Pradeep Airee, Jitendra Kumar Mukhiya, Bhuban Karki, Manjeet Shrestha, Rajkumar Pradhan, Puspa Thapa and Ram Naresh Giri.