Sandeep Lamichhane has been appointed as the new captain of Nepal (Twitter)
Lamichhane is currently playing the Big Bash League in Australia. He is credited with leading Nepal to the U19 level in 2016 and then the Asia Cup in 2017.
The Nepal Cricket Association has named 21-year-old leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane as the next national captain in place of current captain Gyanendra Malla and also dropped the vice-captain Deepender Singh Airi. As a result of an ongoing contractual disagreement with the Nepal Cricket Association, Malla and his deputy Dipendra have been removed from their leadership positions. The central contracts of senior seamer Sompal Kami and young pacer Kamal Singh Airi have also been suspended for six months for speaking out against the salary dispute.
The players’ dispute with CAN has been going on since early October, with many senior players objecting to the way graded central contracts were awarded, as well as amendments to match fees and prize money distribution terms. According to cricbuzz, the board of directors publicly punished the players for their lack of “discipline”. Board.
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Lamichhane is currently playing for Hobart Hurricanes in his fourth season of the Big Bash League in Australia. He is credited with leading Nepal to the U19 level in 2016 and then the Asia Cup in 2017. His most recent captaincy stint came while leading the Kathmandu Kings in Nepal’s domestic T20 competition, the Everest Premier League. However, Lamichhane will make his debut as the national captain in the 2022 T20 World Cup Global Qualifiers (Group A), which begins in Oman in February.
The cricket board also announced this week that Pabudu Dasanaike would take over as head coach following the resignation of Dav Whatmore in September, after Nepal’s ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 matches in Oman. Dasanayake has had a long and successful stint as the coach of Nepal at the associate level. From 2011 to 2016, he was a part of the Nepal setup, which saw him move from Division Four of the World Cricket League (WCL) to Division One of the WCL Championship and his first major ICC competition, the 2014 T20 World Cup.
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