They spent a gruelling nine days trekking in the Mount Everest to reach the site... the Gorak Shep plateau, at 16,945ft. Locals helped to prepare the pitch, moving stones, pebbles and rocks - sometimes with pickaxes - out of the playing area. In a highly contested game, team Hillary beat team Tenzing by 36 runs with six balls remaining.
The the Amateur cricketers entered the record books of playing the world's highest altitude game of field sport.
Hmm, If you play cricket on the top of mount Everest, I guess you should not run to the edge and take a big jump a catch a six ball ;) (Image source)
The teams celebrated their record with a giant bottle of champagne followed by cups of tea (much needed tea I guess ;) )
The interesting match was named as The Nokia Maps Everest Test. The team consisted of 50 people, carrying Nokia N79s with SportsTracker. (Source)
