{"id":12482,"date":"2025-03-29T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/stuart-law-former-australia-batter-appointed-as-nepal-head-coach\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:58:09","slug":"stuart-law-former-australia-batter-appointed-as-nepal-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/stuart-law-former-australia-batter-appointed-as-nepal-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Law: Former Australia batter appointed as Nepal head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former Australia batter Stuart Law has been appointed as Nepal&#8217;s new head coach on a two-year contract.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) had been searching for a new coach for their men&#8217;s side since parting ways with Monty Desai in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Desai guided Nepal to last year&#8217;s T20 World Cup but CAN decided against renewing the 50-year-old Indian&#8217;s contract.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Law, 56, got the job ahead of West Indies legend Shivnarine Chanderpaul, experienced former Sri Lanka coach Dav Whatmore and ex-India batter Wasim Jaffer, who were all shortlisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Law was most recently in charge of the United States but was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c7489pdewdxo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">sacked by USA Cricket<\/a> six months into a three-year contract in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During Law&#8217;s tenure USA completed one of the biggest shocks in cricket history at the T20 World Cup by beating Pakistan in Dallas, and went on to qualify for the Super 8s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Law, who played 54 one-day internationals and one Test for Australia, has previously coached Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies, Afghanistan and Middlesex. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nepal face Scotland and the Netherlands in Cricket World Cup League 2, a tournament which forms part of the qualification process for the 2027 50-over World Cup, in June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cdrx8e421jgo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australia batter Stuart Law has been appointed as Nepal&#8217;s new head coach on a two-year contract. The Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) had been searching for a new coach for their men&#8217;s side since parting ways with Monty Desai in February. Desai guided Nepal to last year&#8217;s T20 World Cup but CAN decided against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12484,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12482\/revisions\/12484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}