{"id":472083,"date":"2026-02-11T04:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472083\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:33:11","slug":"t20-world-cup-nepal-captain-rohit-paudel-calls-on-england-and-major-nations-to-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/472083\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup: Nepal captain Rohit Paudel calls on England and major nations to tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Captain Rohit Paudel has called on England and cricket’s other major nations to tour Nepal following their impressive start to the T20 World Cup in India.<\/p>\n

The associate side almost pulled off a stunning upset against England on Sunday, losing by four runs in a last-ball thriller.<\/a><\/p>\n

West Indies, who played a three-match T20 series last year, are the only Test-playing nation to have faced Nepal outside of World Cups, Asia Cups, the Asian Games or their qualifying tournaments.<\/p>\n

“It would mean a lot, especially if Australia or England comes to Nepal,” said Paudel.<\/p>\n

“That would show world cricket Nepal also plays cricket and plays decent cricket. This World Cup has shown that.<\/p>\n

“If Australia, England, India comes our cricket will grow. It will help globalise the cricket more. It is very important.”<\/p>\n

Nepal, who want to play Test cricket in the future,<\/a> also narrowly missed out on beating South Africa at the last T20 World Cup, losing by one run.<\/p>\n

They tried to organise more fixtures against the world’s best sides afterwards but could not reach any agreements.<\/p>\n

It is understood the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) would be open to playing Nepal in the future, but the packed international calendar is an obvious stumbling block.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Rohit Paudel has called on England and cricket’s other major nations to tour Nepal following their impressive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-472083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}