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Paras Khadka (, , ; born 24 October 1987) is a Nepalese former
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er who is the current
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and
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of Bagmati Province Cricket Association. He captained the
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from 2008 to 2019. An
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, Khadka was a right-handed
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, a right-arm
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and an
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bowler. He made his debut against
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in April 2004. Khadka played in Nepal's inaugural
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(ODI) match, against the
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, in August 2018. He has played a useful role in Nepalese cricket. Khadka became the sixth Nepali cricketer to score an international
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when he hit an unbeaten 106 off 77 balls against
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during the 2012 ACC Trophy Elite in October 2012. Under his captaincy, Nepal won the 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Five in
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, 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Four in
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, 2012 ACC Trophy Elite in
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,
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in
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,
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in
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, participated in the
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in
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and gained the
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status. On 28 January 2019, he became the first Nepalese batsman to score a century in an ODI match, doing so against the
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. On 28 September 2019, he became the first batsman for Nepal to score a century in a T20I match, against
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.


Career


Early career

Born in
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in 1987, Khadka first represented
Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
at the Under-15 level when he played in the Under-15 Asia Cup in the
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in December 2002. He played for the Nepal Under-19s the following year, once against India Under-19s, and also in the 2003 Youth Asia Cup in
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. In 2001, after playing in the ACC Under-17 Cup in
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, he played in his first Under-19 World Cup, the
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in
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. He also debuted for the senior side when he played against
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in the
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, his first-class debut. Later in the year, he played in the
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in
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in addition to
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matches against
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, the
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and
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. In early 2005, he played in the Repêchage Tournament of the
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, After a
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match against
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, Khadka returned to the Nepal Under-19 team for the 2005 ACC Under-19 Cup, held in
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.
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won the tournament after beating
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in the final, thus qualifying for the
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in
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the following February.
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won the plate tournament in the World Cup, beating
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-playing nations
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and
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along the way. Returning to the senior side, Khadka went on a tour of
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before playing in the
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in
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. That year, he also played in all four
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matches against
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, the
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,
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and
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. He played in the 2007
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in
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, which
Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
again won after beating
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in the final. He also played in the
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in
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and captained
Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
in the
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in
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, leading
Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
to a tenth-place finish.


2008-2015

Before the
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, which he captained, Khadka was quoted by the World Cup souvenir program as being "arguably good enough to be in the line-up of any of the
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-playing countries". He also successfully led the country to win the 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Five. In May 2012, he went to play for the Ontario Cricket Academy and Club in
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for four months through the efforts of his national team coach,
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. Khadka rejoined the club for the 2013 season as vice-captain. In the
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, he scored 254 runs in 8 innings at an average of 50.80. In 2012,
Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
won the 2012 ACC Trophy Elite title in the
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, scoring 291 runs at an average of 72.75 and picking up 9 wickets. He also scored his maiden
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against
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in the tournament. He was named the Player of the Tournament. Then he led Nepal to win the 2012 ICC World Cricket League Division Four in
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. He was also named the Player of the Tournament in the 2013 ACC Twenty20 Cup, where he scored 207 runs with an average of 41.40. He led Nepal to win the
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in
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and qualified for the
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in
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. He also successfully led his country to their first World Cup appearance in the
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, after finishing third in the
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in the
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, just behind
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and
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. In the
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in
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, he scored 41 runs in both matches against
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and
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. He became the eighth player in T20I history to take a wicket with the first ball of his career. He set this record against
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when he took the wicket of
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.
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said he is Nepal's
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after he took two catches during the match against
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in the
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, which helped Nepal seal the 9-run victory. In the
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, he scored 185 runs in 6 innings at an average of 30.83 and picked up 6 wickets at an average of 22.83 and an economy rate of 2.63. Nepal qualified for the 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship but failed to secure promotion to Division One and qualification to the 2015–17 ICC Intercontinental Cup. Earlier, he scored an unbeaten 123 off 114 balls in a practice match against Eastern Invitational XI, a cricket team of
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, when
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toured
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in preparation for the tournament in January 2015. In the
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, from 2008 Division Five to 2015 Division Two, he has scored 1157 runs in 46 innings at an average of 31.27, with seven fifties. He was selected for the
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squad for the Emirates T20 tournament, which was held in March 2015. He scored 137 runs in the T20i series against the Netherlands at an average of 45.66.


2018 onwards

In January 2018, he was named captain in Nepal's squad for the
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tournament. In the first match against the host Namibia national cricket team, Nepal won the toss and elected to field first. Paras bowled 4 overs with his figures of 1/16. In a chase of 139, Khadka scored 19 off 35 balls. Nepal won the match by 1 wicket with 4 balls remaining. The second match was with the
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. Paras Khadka scored 17 off 42 balls as Nepal got all out in 138 runs in the 46th over. Khadka bowled his spell of 0/16 in 3 overs in the match. Oman won the match by 6 wickets. With one win and one loss in the tournament, the next game against the UAE was crucial for Nepal. In the third match against UAE, he scored 51 runs, hitting five sixes and two fours, which was crucial enough to be adjudged
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. With that win, Nepal scored 4 points in 3 matches and stood in second place behind Canada. In the fourth match against Kenya, he scored a crucial 42 runs off 44 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes in a low-scoring contest, which turned into a victory for Nepal. In the fifth and final
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match, he bowled his 7 overs spell of 0/16 in the game and got out in the first ball. In the final match of the
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against UAE, he scored 112 * runs off 103 balls with 8 sixes and 3 fours in a losing cause. In reply to UAE's 277 runs, Nepal scored 270/8 in the stipulated 50 overs, losing by 7 runs. Khadka scored his century in the final over and lost the match despite hitting 3 sixes in the final over. He remained unbeaten, scoring his 2nd List A century while none of his teammates scored a fifty. On return to Nepal, he praised the performances of
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and
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in the last league match against
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. He praised his teammates as: Prime Minister
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felicitated him and other cricketers for their performances in the
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. In July 2018, he was named the captain of Nepal's squad for their
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(ODI) series against the Netherlands. These were Nepal's first ODI matches since gaining ODI status during the
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. He made his ODI debut for Nepal against the
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on 1 August 2018. In August 2018, he was named the captain of Nepal's squad for the
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tournament. In October 2018, he was named the captain of Nepal's squad in the Eastern sub-region group for the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Asia Qualifier tournament. In the third match of Nepal's tour of the United Arab Emirates, Paras became the first Nepalese batsman to score an ODI century in
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. He was adjudged the Man of the Match, scoring 115 runs off 109 balls. In June 2019, he was named the captain of Nepal's squad for the
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of the 2018–19 ICC T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier tournament. In September 2019, he scored his first T20I century and became the first and only captain in men's T20I cricket to score a century as a captain when chasing. On 15 October 2019, Khadka resigned as the Nepalese national cricket team captain. He explained that he wanted a new way of taking things forward with a fresh start and committed vision, with everyone involved, following the reinstatement of the
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. Soon after he resigned from captaincy, Khadka was signed by Team Abu Dhabi for the
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. With this signing, Khadka became the 3rd Nepalese
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er to play in a foreign franchise league, after
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and
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. Khadka said, "It is an honour to play in this incredibly exciting tournament. I know the matches will be intense, but I love playing against the world's best. I hope to see the Nepalese flag flying high in the stands of
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when I play next month." Khadka replaced
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left-arm pacer
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after the
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ruled him and other Pakistani players ineligible for the tournament.
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, head coach of Team Abu Dhabi, referred to him as an impressive player who excelled in short forms of the game, and both his batting and
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prowess made him a threat to the opposition. In November 2019, he was also named in Nepal's squad for the cricket tournament at the
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. The Nepal team won the bronze medal after they beat the Maldives by five wickets in the third-place playoff match. In September 2020, he was among eighteen cricketers awarded a central contract by the
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. In November 2020, Khadka was nominated for the ICC Men's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award. On 3 August 2021, Khadka announced retirement from international cricket.


Post-retirement

Post-retirement, Paras Khadka has established a cricket academy name
Cricket Excellence Center
to work for grassroots cricket development in Nepal. The academy is located in Baluwatar, Kathmandu, which has world-class cricketing facilities to ensure the growth of aspiring cricketers in Nepal. Khadka was signed to Team Gujarat for the Legends League Cricket 2024, a T-20 cricket league that includes recently retired international players. Paras Khadka was signed in both previous editions, but he didn't participate in the first one for personal reasons.


Administration career

On August 14, 2023, Khadka was elected as a Kathmandu District Cricket Administration member. On 1 September 2023, he became the president of the Bagmati Province Cricket Association of Nepal. On 23 September 2023, he was elected as the secretary of the
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.


2010 boycott

In May 2010, 18 members of the national cricket team, led by Khadka, held a press conference and said they would not play in the national league because of the behavior of the
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(CAN). He led the boycott of the national league for the second time in April 2014, demanding the restructuring of the Cricket Association of Nepal and better facilities for players. This resulted in CAN being drawn into the controversy of financial mismanagement.


Awards

* NSFJ Pulsar Player of the Year 2016 AD * NSFJ Pulsar Player of the Year 2017 AD *NNIPA Best Cricketer of the Year 2017 * NSFJ Pulsar Player of the Year 2018 AD * ICC Men's Associate Player of the Decade Nominee * NSJF Pulsar Player of the Decade 2022 AD


Personal life

He married his longtime girlfriend, Prapti Rajyalaxmi Rana, on 26 February 2015.


References


External links

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