Sharmila Roka Magar: How a Nepali cricketer walked 23 hours to play in the National Games

When Sharmila Roka Magar left Bhairahawa to celebrate Dashain with her family in Rolpa, she was not as happy as she would be any other year. She spent a lot of time and effort to ensure she would make the Lumbini provincial cricket team for the ninth National Games , but there were no assurances and she was worried sick.

If she was selected, she would have to go to Pokhara from Rolpa as soon as Dashain was over. She did not want to go, but as her brother insisted, she could not say no as she had not been to Rolpa in years as she was studying in Kathmandu. So she told her brother she would go as long as they return on October 5.