Tags: Sandeep Lamichhane,
Nepal
Printed on: Dec 30, 2023
Former Nepal cricket crew captain Sandeep Lamichhane has been convicted of raping a minor by the Kathmandu District Courtroom. The following listening to will decide the jail time period for the 23-year-old cricketer.
Lamichhane is at present out on bail. He was arrested again in November 2022, after a 17-year-old lady alleged that he raped her in a lodge room in Kathmandu in August the identical 12 months.
Information company PTI quoted Kathmandu Publish as saying {that a} single bench of Decide Shishir Raj Dhakal handed the order on Friday, December 29 after the conclusion of the ultimate hearings that began on Sunday, December 24.
Lamichhane is undoubtedly Nepal’s most high-profile cricketer. He was in the truth is the primary participant from the nation to function within the Indian Premier League (IPL). He made his debut for the Delhi Capitals (DC) franchise within the 2018 version.
The Kathmandu District Courtroom on November 4, 2022, had handed an order to ship Lamichhane to the Sundhara-based central jail after a detention listening to. The cricketer moved the excessive courtroom difficult the order. Responding to a assessment petition filed by Lamichhane, a joint bench of judges Dhruva Raj Nanda and Ramesh Dahal then ordered the Nepal cricketer’s launch on a bail bond of Rs 2 million with situations.
After a rape case was filed in opposition to Lamichhane, he was arrested in October at Tribhuvan Worldwide Airport on his return from Trinidad & Tobago the place he featured within the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).
Lamichhane is well-liked as a leg-spinner for his expertise in T20 franchise leagues around the globe, which incorporates the Large Bash League (BBL), the Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) in addition to West Indies’ CPL. He’s the second-fastest bowler to assert 50 ODI scalps and the third-fastest to succeed in 50 T20I wickets.
The 23-year-old has performed 51 ODIs and 52 T20Is for Nepal, claiming 112 and 98 wickets respectively averaging 18.06 and 12.58. In his general T20 profession, 206 wickets in 144 matches at a mean of 17.44 and an financial system fee of 6.78 with three four-fors and one five-wicket haul.
Lamichhane’s most up-to-date look for Nepal got here in November 2023 when he featured within the
ICC Males’s T20 World Cup Asia Qualifier Closing in opposition to Oman. Lamichhane starred within the tied match with figures of two/30.
–By A Cricket Correspondent
