🏏🏴🇳🇵 Nepal’s One-Wicket Win Wasn’t a Shock, It Was a Statement
Associate cricket is not a charity case or a sideshow, it is a fire lit under the complacency of the game's establishment. What happened today @the_forfs, Nepal’s stunning one-wicket win over @CricketScotland, sealed in chaos, in tension, in wild, beating-heart theatre, was no accident.
The scorecard will show a wide ball and a runout that did not count. It will mention Karan KC’s 65 not out from number nine, but it cannot account for the spirit that drove it. That does not come from central contracts or packed stadiums. It comes from meaning. Every match, every run, every wicket means everything for these sides. There are no dead rubbers in Associate cricket, only battles fought on the edge of survival and recognition.
@CricketNep's rise is not a story of overnight triumph. It is a tale of relentless devotion, fans climbing trees just to watch, a national team now coached by Stuart Law, and a squad forged in T20 leagues and hardened in the shadows of Test nations. These cricketers do not just play the game; they carry it.
The @ICC’s league structures have given these teams a precious commodity, regular cricket. But access does not guarantee equality. Associate players are still under-scouted, under-selected, and underplayed in the world’s premier franchise tournaments. A @BrandoMcMullen4 or a @DSAiree45 could walk into most squads. Yet the doors remain largely shut. Until they are opened, Associate cricket remains a rebellion with cause.
And what of the women? Scotland’s @Kathryn_Bryce was the player of the tournament at the World Cup qualifier. Yet Scotland have no fixtures in the diary. This is the price of being excellent outside the establishment, a pat on the back and a calendar of empty months.
Today was not just Nepal winning a cricket match. It was a nation showing it belongs. It was proof that Associate cricket is not the future, it is the present, and it is glorious.
The sport does not need to save Associate cricket. Associate cricket just might save the sport.
Yesterday, my account was hacked for a while and strangely, my most viral tweet was deleted. So here it is, updated for 2025 for science and health-illiterates.
To summarize:
1. One whole egg with yolk a day does not increase blood cholesterol
2. Green tea does not help you lose weight
3. Jaggery, honey or sugarcane are not healthier than white sugar
4. There is no "healthy alcohol"
5. Ashwagandha does not reduce stress or help you sleep
6. Shilajit is a resinous piece of rock that does not benefit male sexual health
7. Turmeric in milk does not get beneficially absorbed in body and is lost in stool
8. You can consume fruits anytime during day or night
9. Sugarless black coffee at least 3 cups is good for fatty liver disease
10. Apple cider vinegar is good for only trapping fruit flies
11. Eight glasses of water a day is a myth
12. Pure whey protein supplementation to target recommended higher protein intake is safe for liver and kidneys
13. Magnesium supplements don't help you sleep
14. Anti-ageing is a myth
15. Herbalife products are the most common cause of liver injuries globally in the context of herbal and dietary supplements induced liver damage
16. Just because you lost weight by whatever means does not make you a "health coach."
17. Consumption of dairy along with fruits is perfectly fine
18. Yoga does not help you lose weight
19. Multivitamin a day does not improve health or prevent diseases in general. It can however, increase the risk of multiple cancers
20. Biotin does not help in hair growth or increase length of hair
21. Here are some liver supplements that you are wasting time and money on - Milk thistle, TUDCA and S-adenosyl methionine (SAMe)
22. The liver detoxes you, you don't detox the liver
23. Do not insult the kidneys by drinking yours or others urine, thinking urine therapy is going to help you live longer
24. Your favourite celebrity is always wrong about healthcare. Do not take medical advice from a pretty looking heroine or macho looking hero.
25. Virat Kohli and Cristiano Ronaldo do not drink Herbalife shakes. They just pose with it, for money
26. BluePrint is Bryan Johnson's online supplements scam
27. Covid vaccines ended the pandemic
28. Ayurveda is a pseudoscience. So is Homeopathy, Siddha, Unani, Naturopathy, Reiki, and Acupuncture.
29. Homeopathy is mostly alcohol, sometimes sugar. Other times cockroach parts.
30. You personal experience is not scientific evidence.
‘What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.’
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Vivir para contarla ( Living to Tell the Tale), 2002
Dirk Herder