Category: Sports

Kathmandu: Nepal National and International Sportsmen’s Association (NNIPA) has handed over a letter to Youth and Sports Minister Dawa Lama Tamang. A team of NNIPA led by Chairman Deepak Shrestha reached the Ministry on Wednesday and handed over a letter to Minister Tamang. The association has submitted a letter containing various six-point demands. These include… Continue reading 6-point letter to Sports Minister

(AP): When the 2020 men’s tennis season ended at the ATP Finals, Rafael Nadal captured a common sentiment that still holds true as the 2021 tennis season is set to begin this week. “The world is suffering a lot, so we are very lucky that we can play tennis,” Nadal said in London in November.… Continue reading TENNIS ’21: COVID questions key; Djokovic, Nadal eye records

Kathmandu: Nominations of four categories under the 17th edition of ‘NSJF Pulsar Sports Award’ to be organized by Nepal Sports Journalists have been made public on Tuesday. As every year, the forum has made public the nominations of men, women, young players and coaches of the year. Bikesh Kuthu of football, Gopichandra Parki of athletics,… Continue reading Four categories for the Pulsar Sports Awards are public

Kathmandu: Province 1 lifted the title of the Prime Minister’s Cup Women’s National Cricket Tournament. Province 1 clinched the title for the first time by defeating Armed Police Force (APF) by six runs in the final match held on Sunday. Following the target of 106 runs given by province 1, APF lost 7 wickets in… Continue reading Province 1 bags Prime Minister’s Cup Women’s National Cricket title

Kathmandu: Nepal’s Sandeep Lamichhane has taken two wickets in his first match of the ongoing Big Bash Cricket League in Australia this season. Playing for the Hobart Hurricanes, Sandeep bowled four overs in the first game and took two wickets for 38 runs. Due to the corona virus infection and having to stay in quarantine… Continue reading Sandeep’s excellent start in the Big Bash League

Kathmandu: All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) President Karma Chhiring Sherpa on Wednesday handed over a certificate issued by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to the departmental team Tribhuvan Army Football Club. At a function held at the Army Headquarters, ANFA Chairman Sherpa handed over the club license certificate to the Army after fulfilling all the… Continue reading Tribhuvan Army Club receives AFC license

(AP): There were so many this year. Sports in 2020 was an unending state of mourning. It was as if every week, sometimes days, another luminary fell, bringing a cascade of condolence and remembrance. It began New Year’s Day, a harbinger of what the year held, with the deaths of David Stern and Don Larsen.… Continue reading From Kobe to Maradona, a year of staggering losses in sports

(The Guardian): The Premier League and Football League insist they have no plans to pause the season despite nearly 50 matches being postponed since Christmas because of a spike in coronavirus cases. However, the mounting scale of the problem was again illustrated on Tuesday when the Premier League announced a record 18 new positive tests… Continue reading Premier League on alert after record number of positive coronavirus tests

(BBC): India captain Virat Kohli and Australia all-rounder Ellyse Perry have been named as players of the decade by the International Cricket Council. Kohli has scored 20,396 runs in all international cricket in the 10 years covered by the awards. Perry made 4,349 runs across all formats and took 213 wickets – the most of… Continue reading Virat Kohli and Ellyse Perry named players of decade by ICC

Kathmandu: Organized by the South Asian Football Federation (SAF), the SAAF Championship is set to take place in Bangladesh in September next year. The working committee meeting of SAAF held on Monday through virtual media has made various decisions including the date of SAAF championship. The championship will be held in Bangladesh from September 14… Continue reading SAFF Championship to be held in September next year