Why Sandeep Lamichanne isn't getting a place on Delhi Capital's team XI?

Actually, It is so late for me to put my view as this 2020 IPL is already about to finish on coming 10th of Nov 2020 in Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai, on Tuesday. though I couldn't stop myself to put my two words on this viral concern. At this time as we see everywhere, all our youngsters or cricketers are taking concerned on a fine Nepali leg spinner Sandeep Lamichanne's IPL journey of this 2020. Some of them are just trolling him in many different ways and some of them are just arguing on him that why he isn't getting chance to be in DC XI so far.

We have even seen his talents on all over the globe, recently in this Caribbean Premier League (CPL) in Trinidad and Tobago, where we saw his exceptional performance. He took 12 wickets with the run rate of just 5.3 in this year CPLT20 just playing 11 matches. After seeing all of his recent sizzling CPLT20 performance many of his fans would have hoped big on this 2020 IPL, but because of some reason till this writing date, he couldn't make his 2020 IPL debut this year so far on the side of  Delhi Capitals (DC) in Dubai. 

 As we all know that DC has kept Sandeep for NPR 3.2 million for this IPL series. Till this date, he isn't getting chance to show his talent on the field of Dubai this time, here in social media some of his fans are continuously trolling him as saying the person who took 3.2 million rupees just to watch IPL and some are saying that he is just there to carry water. Not only this, some of them continuously expressing their unhappiness with Delhi Capitals (DC) by reacting angry emoji on DC's Facebook's posts and giving some negative comments there etc. 

I understand that it doesn't feel good if our beloved person doesn't get a single chance, while others are continuously getting. But in a tournament like this, sometimes our calculation doesn't match as exactly as we calculate them on our side. There come too many things to manage even if we don't see them from outside. Here is also the same thing happening with our boy Sandeep and DC. If I am not wrong here, even the DC badly want to have sandy to be on their XI side as much as it is possible. 

As I said here earlier that there is something wrong with our calculation. Yes, there is something wrong. On my analysis, DC eagerly missing Sandy on their XI but they are not finding a place for him there not because DC have more other outstanding better players than Sandy but because they aren't being able to manage their team XI this time. 

Here are some critical things to know about Sandeep not getting the place in this 2020 IPL. One big problem is that DC doesn't have an extra mature Indian pace bowler to replace African pace bowler Rabada and Anrich Nortje or injury of pace bowler Ishant Sharma is the one key problem for sandy. If he had been here well, DC could easily replace Anrich or Rabada to make an extra place for Sandeep. And another problem is DC local boys are not being on form since the tournament of this IPL, especially Rishav Pant. 

Here, they don't have fine Indian pace bowler to attack their opponent so they must take Rabada and Anrich Nortje. And I said some of their highly expected boys like Prithivi, Rishav and Rahane aren't on form this time so they need Stonish and Shimron as a batting option.

None of us is unknown to this IPL international player's protocol. One team can take only 4 international players in their team XI. Stonish, Rabada, Nortje, Hetmyer are always likely to be on DC team XI so far for this Dream 11 IPL 2020 because all of them are on their best form. To give Sandeep a chance here is really a big decision from DC. If somehow they give a chance to Sandy, their would-be team XI like this:- Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Sikhar   Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishav Pant, Axar Patel, Markus Stonish, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Ravichandra Ashwin, and Sandeep Lamichanee. On this format, DC isn't satisfied with their boys Shaw, Rahane and Pant's performance. Thus, DC wants Stonish and Shimron both to be in XI for the last order destructive batting. 

Even if DC believes on their shooters and gives Sandy a place of Shimron, DC doesn't satisfy with their XI. They find their bowling side incomplete as they get only 4 main bowlers or only two pace attackers. On this time they need one more Indian pace bowler to accompany Rabada and Nortje. If they get one, there should be one batsman out. Which isn't going to work at all. 

However, if skipper uses the allrounder Stonish to bowl some overs in a good time, they can go ahead easily. Axer Patel is on soo good form on both batting and bowling this year so I don't think that they want to replace him with Harsal Patel. If Stonish bowl for a Delhi, there is no need to change on this XI. They can get good XI.  If they find this as a little dangerous to have 3 spinners in a single game, they can take Harsal Patel on their XI to accompany Rabada and Nortje. He can also do both ball and bat. To make this done, DC must have a big think. There might have been the different result with Mumbi Indians last night if there was Sandeep Lamichanne playing on the place of Daniel Sams. 

I have seen some social media users saying that Sandeep should be replaced with Ravichandra Ashwin. But I say this isn't going to happen not because Sandeep isn't good enough to fulfil this place, but because they think that they cannot make a good XI on this stage. At this time they get XI like this:- Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Sikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Rishav Pant, Axar Patel, Markus Stonish, Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje, Tushar Deshpande and Sandeep Lamichanne, which isn't a bad team XI at all. However, DC isn't going to replace Lamichanne on the place of Ashwin as long as Ashwin is good to go because he has been an exceptional bowler for DC this time. He is a mature and smart spin bowler. He has already taken 13 valuable top-order wickets out of 13 matches with a good economy rate of 7.50. It is also not a good idea to make a sudden replacement for your team eleven.  

In the end, I just say that it's not good to be aggressive here. This is all the match and team of our player Sandy. Out behaviour shouldn't make anybody to feel sad. It is always better to think positive and follow this track and get something amazing from them. None should be sad with this situation here, even Sandeep isn't in XI, he is continuously putting his effort to make their XI well-practised in outside. Let's stop thinking more and being aggressive here. Let's say Good Luck for him and his team and all emerging new cricket talents to rise up and up.

How to Be Fluent in English Language?

As we all know how important is this English language for this 21st century. Wherever we start the beautiful conversation in English, there are some common questions for all of us that why are you learning English? How are you learning English? Do you have any tips and tricks for learning English? Here, it depends on your answer that how you present those kinds of question's answers. If you want to know about my answer then listen, I would say like this. I would say that English is a global business language. I am learning it with patience as I believe that learning is a lifelong process, not a magic trick that happens instantly. It takes some time. So, here I have only one tip and trick, which one is, keep learning with full of your interest until you don't finally master it. It's up to you whether you say it as a magic trick or some tips and tricks of learning English. Fact is that you have to try learning English or anything as best as you can. 

Furthermore, I would say that you have to learn with interest. You have to learn with the challenge. You have to learn with patience. You have to learn with eager. You have to learn with jealousy. You have to learn with goals. You have to learn with a pattern. And one more that you have to be satisfied with your outcomes, otherwise you will be depressed, bored, and feel easily tired of learning. My favourite line is that it doesn’t matter what are you doing but it really matters whether you are enjoying it or not. If you enjoy doing something, have a positive mindset, challenge yourself to do something, have belief in patience, are eager to get things done, are jealous on others who are already expert in any field, believe in goals, keep trying until you don’t get what you want, have your own ways of doing, and always motivate yourself and feel happy with your outcomes, there is nothing impossible for you. You can be whatever you want so being fluent in English is like a piece of cake.   

Even if you search the same topic ‘how to be fluent in English’ in google, YouTube or on any others platform, there you might find many videos, articles with some tips and tricks. But whatever you get there, the conclusion is the same that English is a global language, we all have to learn it on a pattern and so on. It is easy but not that easy that we are thinking. It is only easy if we think it is easy. Otherwise, it always stays as a difficult part of our life. There we mostly find money-oriented people rather than social and helpful. I am not telling you not to google or search about this, I am just telling you not to be confused from them. You are the boss of yourself so question yourself what you are missing inside you rather than wasting your time on searching different things that you already know. You just ask yourself what is stopping you from not being able to be fluent in English or anything. You just understand your problem first. 

My friend, if you are silently claiming that you don’t have any problem, I am here to prove you wrong as in this world nothing is perfect. Each and everything has both points one positive and another negative. Only one truth is that how is the level of those two points. We may have positive aspects more than negative aspects but sure we have both of them. If you are still confused about my positive and negative words, don't worry I am going to clarify them as well. In normally speaking we think that drug addiction, video game addiction, drinking alcohol, smoking etc. are some negative part of our human being, but there are more that we all must know. I think our anger, pride, judgmental behaviour, disrespectful behaviour, rudeness, laziness, ego, unnecessary rush, nervousness or lack of confidence, jealous behaviour, greedy behaviour etc. are also one of our main problems or our bad habits. So here, my main point is our self-control. If we all recognize all of these negative parts of our own habits and control them, we can handle things easily. Without controlling them even if we find ways of getting success in life or being fluent in English, we cannot reach our final destination. We might lose our way in the middle of our time. Because these problems are the real enemies of ourselves.  

There are many people who have asked me the same question 'what should I do to learn English?' I said the same as I described above but this time a little differently. If you are serious in learning English and want to be an Expert in this language, you just start thinking in English first. If you can just create an English environment. Or if you cannot then find it somewhere. There are many English-speaking groups in social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp. Follow those groups there and try to communicate with as many people as you can. Don’t hesitate to request them to do English practice. If you have some questions regarding English, you can find many English teachers there so ask them immediately. On this time you can even download some English teaching application on your personal devices such as a tablet and mobile phone, where you can practice your English, especially speaking practice. Whatever you do, you just have to surround yourself by English. There you have to think in English, talk in English, write in English, and speak in English. I don't say you have to follow this English article page, see this newspaper, watch this movie or series. I only say do whatever you want to do, please do this in English.  For me, reading one grade English book is far better than reading something in another language, if you think that you are a serious English learner. You have to be that conscious of English that one day you start seeing English dreams.  

Mainly, there are four parts in English, which are listening, reading, writing and speaking. All of them are equally important for English learners. If you ask me which one is most important among them, I already said that each and every single part of them are equally indispensable for us. Whichever part we focus most, we find this one is easier as compared to other parts. Every person knows that if we are bad at listening then we have to practice listening more. For other parts also the same. As far as I know, most of the people use to say that they can easily write, understand others’ speaking, read the text but cannot speak fluently. It is because English isn’t our mother tongue so we are not used to with this language. 

On this situation, as I described in the above paragraphs, we have to practice speaking every day. We just have to force ourselves to speak in English. Then we will slowly gain speaking confidence automatically. And if there is someone weak in writing, this person also has to practise writing regularly. But in writing practice, we must find someone who can correct our writings and gives us some feedback about our mistakes. And we also have to have a clear understanding of English grammars, especially tenses. Likewise, to give reading advice, read whatever you find interesting. But if you find anything any words or any complex grammars confusing and you don’t understand them, do not leave them without knowing them. Whatever you do, you must understand the text that you are reading. Here you can see the word meaning of difficult words. Or you can ask about this confusing part to those people who you find good at English. Or you can even translate this difficult text on google into your own language. It's okay, in the beginning, it might take the time or a whole day to understand one single paragraph of some English newspapers. If you don’t give up and continue reading on this way for a couple of weeks, I bet you that you will find your improvements in English by yourself and soon you will be fluent in English, which leads you towards tremendous opportunities. 

Some of The Nepalese Traditional Games

As we all know that game is so essential for all human being. According to our distinct geographic nature of earth, we have various types of games all over the world. We might have a distinct flavour on the choice of games but sure that we all love to enjoy playing our favourite game. Today here I am going to try my best to mention some of our Nepali historic traditional games that most of the Nepalese people used to play, especially on their early ages. Here are some Nepali traditional games:-

1:- Choi Dum

It's a Nepali traditional game, where two or more than two people gather and play this game. In this game, people use to run everywhere and one person has to touch another person. Here in the first, all players gather and toss then decide who will be the first person who runs after all of the members and starts chasing them. If this first-person becomes able to touch another person then the person who gets touched by the first one starts chasing others like the first one.

2:- Lukamari

Actually, it's not only the Nepali game. In English, this Lukamari game is well known for 'Hide and Seek' game. So here I assume that each and every person of this world knows about the game called Hide and Seek or Lukamari. But here I wanna share some of our Nepali ways of playing this game. As far as I remember my past, I used to play this game a lot. When I used to play this game, one of our members used to count some numbers and while this person counting numbers with closing his eyes, we all rest of the members used to hide in different-different places. The person who used to seek for all of the members must have seen all of them without anyone's help. If he gives up then she must have gone for again counting the numbers from starting point.

3:- Chor police

some of you might have already guessed the meaning of Chor. As we all know the meaning of police, Chor means just the opposite of the police which means thief. This game is quite similar to our first game called Choi Dum but here we decide one is Chor and another police. It can also be played with multiple members. I used to play this game a lot, especially on the way back home from school. Sometimes we even played it in school time and at home. But mostly while we were going back home from school.

4:- Guchha

I am not fully sure whether it has its English name or not but I say it is a marvel game. Here we collect some small marvel ball and try to hit others' marvel ball by another ball. This Guchha or marvel ball game is mainly played by our fingers. We trow it with the support of our fingers. This is the game which was so popular in our country when I was children. I think somewhere in Nepal it is still popular and children are playing it that we used to do in our past.

5:- Gotta

Mostly it is known as a ladies game. It was so popular for ladies in my childhood period. However, I also played it while my sisters used to play. And I can also say that I was also pretty good at this game. Sometimes I even used to win with my sisters and they used to get mad at me. Sad that I don't fully remember, how many stone balls were required to play but I do clearly remember that this game was so famous at that time and every girl used to play it. This is the game where some small pebbles were required and we used to play those small beautiful pebbles in our hands.

6:- Rumal Lukai

This is the game I mostly used to play when I was in primary school. I still have some of those clear pictures in my mind now. At this time, we all were asked to sit on a circle. Our teacher used to choose one of our friends to pick up the Handkerchief and run behind the circle. He/she could place this handkerchief on the back of any of these game members' back. Whoever this running person chose to place this handkerchief, this person had to run and chase before he comes to the same sitting place and sits there.

7:- The stickers card game

You might not have heard this stickers card game but this is also one of our Nepali traditional popular games. One this game we used to gather wrestling cards and used to decide winners according to their height, weight, hair, body, and match as well. As long as I remember undertaker used to be the most powerful one. If I showed the Undertaker while other people were showing other wrestlers' cards, I used to win their posters too. That game was also famous and super interesting. We used to pay Nepali Rupees Rs 1 for four wrestler cards.

8:- Chungi

This is also one of our traditional games. Even though in many places it is mostly connected with girls, I have seen both boys and girls playing it in their own ways. When I was young I also played it a lot. Here we collect some rubber band together and make a small group like a ball. After collecting rubbers and making a bunch of it we call it Chungi and play it mostly with the help of our legs and hands, especially with legs.

9:- Satpatre

Well, even in various parts of Nepal, this game is known from multiple names. We can also say it as a seven stones game because there we need seven stones to play. First, we put all of them in a fixed place and arrange them like we arrange bricks while making homes. After arranging this, from a certain distance we try to destroy it by throwing Chungi or ball (it's a homemade plastic ball. To make this kind of ball, we simply gather some unwanted papers or plastics and give them a round shape of the ball.) Here we have really amazing rules, according to these rules, first, we have to destroy the seven stones row from a certain distance and then the team who are destroying has to rearrange it back. While one team is arranging them like it was before, the opponent team can attack by this Chungi or ball. At this time, if the ball only touches on the team member's head, forearm, and downside from knees, they can play or if it touches on the other place of the body like backside, upper arm, chest, stomach, etc. this person gets out and cannot participate on arranging stone activity.

10:- Dandi Biyo

It is a Nepali game mainly played in the rural areas of Nepal, was known as a national game of Nepal. But after May 23, 2017, Volleyball became the official national sports in Nepal. Dandi Biyo is played with a stick (Dandi) about two feet long and a wooden pin (Biyo) about six inches long. The pin is a small wooden stick with pointed ends. It is similar to the Indian game Gilli Danda. I still remember the day I used to enjoy while playing this game. It's been already around 15 years that I haven't played it. And so sad that I haven't even seen anyone of Nepali people playing this game. So I can easily say that now it is about to extinct soon.

11:- Kabaddi

You might be thinking that Kabbadi is an Indian native game but here in Nepal also we used to play this game a lot. It might be playing with different rules in different places. Here I am going to mention some of our local rules that I still remember. If we talk about the exact rules and regulations of this game, there we need at least seven members on each team. But if we want to play unofficially then we can play it with a single member of one team as well. Actually, it depends on our present rules that how may members we want to have in one team. It has some more amazing rules that every team sends a member to the opponent as a rider. The person who is chosen as a rider must go to the opponent team and chase them there with his/her single breath. There is a middle line in the centre of the ground so as soon as the rider leaves this line and goes towards the opponent team he/she cannot breathe. He/she must stick with his/her single breath. And there is another line at both side of the ground, especially for the riders that whoever comes as a rider must touch this line before going back to their middle line. If the opposing team catches the rider and doesn't let him/her go to the middle line, the opponent team gets one point. And this rider must stay out of the league for this current match. Likewise, if the rider touches the opponent members while chasing them and also safely comes back to the middle line, the rider team earns points according to the person that rider touches.

These are some Nepali traditional games that most of our ancestors used to play when they were kids. At this time all of these games were so popular and many people used to spend their childhood while playing these games. As I already said that all of these games are going to extinct soon. Because of increasing technological development and industrialization, most of the modern people are moving towards city areas and playing modern electronic games rather than their traditional games. Just around 19/20 years ago, in my childhood period also we could see people playing these games. I also played a lot and made my life precious. But now I don't see any single person playing this game. Even if there are some playing those games, I am sure that they are on a decreasing trend. Here I mentioned some of our Nepali games that used to be our life in our early ages. But now all of them have become old fashioned.

Here I want all of you guys to give a little think about your early age and try to remember what sort of games you used to play while you were growing up. I also played volleyball and a little cricket. We all know about these two games so I didn't find important to write about them. But if any of my readers demand about the time of my early life that I spend while playing volleyball and cricket with my friends, I will definitely try to run my pen on them as well. For now, I would like to request all of you to write something about your traditional games that you and your ancestors played in their childhood time.