Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]
Nonetheless its a good news for Nepal as they will finally be seen competing with top teams of Asia.
Nepal shown its existence and perform really well in its previous matches and now we are looking it in the Asia Cup and I hope it will show its power in the Cup too. All are top levels team and now we can say the Nepal team is also in top levels teams because now it is playing with them. And if it will perform well so it will show its name everywhere. 
If you remember, Nepal qualified for the Asia Cup back in 2006 as well. But then the entire tournament was cancelled due to some dispute between the BCCI and PCB. For the next edition of the Asia Cup, the qualifiers was conducted once again rather than allowing Nepal to qualify directly. And this was the time when ICC changed their eligibility criteria, which allowed the Gulf teams to compete with first class players from India and Pakistan. As a result, the next tournament was conducted in 2008, and United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong participated in this tournament along with the 4 test nations from Asia.