After a year-long hiatus from international tournaments, cricket looks set to being back in action and Malaysia Cricket is elated at being able to participate in this Tri Nation’s T20i Series in Nepal.
The Tri – Nation’s T20I series will be played in the Kathmandu, from 17TH – 24TH APRIL, 2021.
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All matches will be played at TU (Tribhuvan University) cricket ground where the three nations will compete for the Bajaj Pulsar Tri Nations Series, Strength Partner Shivam Cement. The series will a double round – robin, with the top two teams contending in the finals.
Towards this end, Malaysian Cricket Association, extends its thanks to the Ministry of Sports and Youth together with all other government authorities for giving us the support to make possible our participation in this Tri – Nation’s T20I series.
The Malaysian squad will be travelling under the bio secure bubble, in compliance with the SOP’s required in both Nepal and Malaysia and will not lax on this aspect.
We are aware that The Cricket Association of Nepal is working tirelessly to ensure that players and Match Officials remain in a Bio-secure bubble. There will be mandatory PCR testing for all players and officials and all matches will be played under strict compliance of the SOP that is in place.
Malaysia will be competing against two strong teams; doubtless, all three teams have been working hard to bring their best to the game, despite the COVID-19 restrictions over the past year. In addition, this Tri Series is sure to regale cricket fans while it uplifts spirits of the contenders.
Mahinda Vallipuram, President – MCA: “It is indeed very pleasing to see the revival of international cricket, after a year- long drought in international tournaments. The last international match in which our team played, was in 2020 between the end of February – early March, at the T20i ACC Eastern Region in Thailand.
This International Tri-Series between Nepal, Netherlands and Malaysia is therefore a morale booster for our national team, as we roll on back to playing in international tournaments. Nepal and Malaysia share a friendly affiliation and I am confident of Nepal putting up a winning tournament.
Nepal is a great cricket country and Malaysia is happy to be in Nepal to restart our international journey! We thank CAN for the opportunity.”
Chatur Bahadur Chand, President – CAN: “I would like to thank both Netherlands Cricket and Malaysia Cricket for working closely in a very short duration to get this series happening. We are delighted to announce the return of International Cricket in Nepal”
Ryan Campbell, National coach – KNCB: “After not playing since November 2019, I am overjoyed at the announcement of the Tri Series in Nepal. The boys have worked so hard for over a year with so much uncertainty on when our next match will be. Playing Nepal and Malaysia in Nepal will present us with an extremely tough re-entry into World Cricket but it’s a challenge we are very much looking forward to.”
About Malaysia Cricket:
Malaysian Cricket Association (MCA) is the governing body of cricket in Malaysia, located in Bandar Kinrara, Puchong. We gained associate membership of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1967, and was inducted member of the Asian Cricket Association (ACC) since its incorporation in 1983.
Malaysia Cricket was awarded the ICC Best Overall Global Development Award in 2017.
Malaysia Cricket is ICC Tier A and ranked 3rd the in ICC Associates scorecard ranking from 2017 to 2020 and remains in Category A.
Cricket Adiwira (ELP) won the ICC Award for Asia Region and was the Asia Regional winner of the Gray – Nichols Participation programme of the year category in the 2019 edition of the ICC development.
Since 2004, the Kinrara Oval in Puchong, Selangor, has been the home ground of the MCA.
Our ground is the first in South East Asia to have floodlights for night cricket and we aim to be Asia’s Cricket Hub having hosted countless domestic and international cricket successfully.