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Hampshire Assistant Coach Jimmy Adams will captain an MCC side set to begin a tour of Nepal later this week
Former Hampshire captain and current Assistant Coach Jimmy Adams will lead Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) on it's first 'Legacy Tour' later this week when the club heads to Nepal.
As announced in the summer of 2018, MCC has introduced into its overseas touring programme a series of Legacy Tours, aimed at leaving a sustainable and meaningful impact in developing cricket nations with a commitment made to tour Nepal for three years from 2019 to 2021 inclusive.
A strong 13-man squad will be departing for Nepal on 1st November, and will play six matches in the two-week trip including a three-day match against the Nepal national side, which has been granted first-class status.
MCC has strong cricketing links with Nepal, having hosted them at Lord’s twice in recent years and toured to the country in both 2009 and 2015. This upcoming tour begins part of the new Legacy Tour agreement, with the MCC Foundation supporting this major project which further reiterates MCC’s global influence on the game.
We have selected a strong squad with both international and domestic experience who will provide tough opposition for Nepal’s talented players. They will also be fine ambassadors for MCC and prove valuable assets to the Club when coaching youngsters on the tour.
John Stephenson, MCC Head of Cricket
Yasir Arafat, who represented Pakistan in all three formats of the game as well as a T20 stint at Hampshire, is also included in the squad.
The Club’s charitable arm – the MCC Foundation – will focus on developing the game at the grassroots. The Foundation will work with UK charity Kidasha, who aim to improve the life chances of some of Pokhara’s most vulnerable children, particularly in slum communities. The Foundation will lay nets in five government schools, upskill local coaches and teachers, provide kit and cricket training, and establish a new schools league for both girls and boys in the city.
The MCC tourists, led by Gloucestershire Second XI coach and former MCC Young Cricketer Owen Dawkins, will run coaching sessions in one of the five schools – Shree Barahi Higher Secondary School – on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th November.
MCC squad to Tour Nepal: Jimmy Adams (Captain), Yasir Arafat, Billy Godleman, Miles Hammond, Oliver Hannon-Dalby, Callum Jackson, Will Rhodes, Alex Spencer, Alex Thomson, Will Vanderspar, Ed Young, Tom Westley, Chris Wright.
