Keen to award players, Nepal fails to recognise the need for sports infrastructures and trainers

After Nepal’s national cricket team won the ICC World Cricket League Division 4 in 2012 despite not having any promising sports infrastructure, the government of Nepal decided to reward each member of the national team with Rs 200,000. This was the first time the players were receiving any sort of award from the government.

A year later, after Nepal won the ICC World Cricket League Divison Three and qualified for the ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh , the government gave players Rs 1 million each. The players, despite not clearing the first group stage of the World Cup, received Rs 500,000 each.