A day after the brutal government crackdown on young anti-corruption protesters left at least 19 dead and hundreds injured around the country, Nepal descended into chaos on Tuesday, with mobs vandalising private and public properties and leaving a widespread trail of destruction.

The anger spilt over into every sphere of public life, as Nepalis, organised under the banner of ‘Gen Z protests’, took matters into their own hands to challenge rampant corruption and deep-rooted irregularities in the system.

The nation's sports sector, too, felt the tremors.

From athletes to administrators, stakeholders across disciplines responded to the uprising in their own ways.

The Post takes a closer look at how the uprising reverberated through Nepal’s sporting landscape.

The shock of Monday’s bloodshed immediately rippled into Nepal’s cricketing circles. Paras Khadka, former national team captain and currently the secretary at the Cricket Association of Nepal, who is one of the most influential voices in Nepali sport, took to social media to mourn the loss of lives and property.

“[In our country], wherever I look, I see despair: more speeches than work,” Khadka wrote on Facebook in Nepali. “A society with no sense of right or wrong. A country unable to rise above personal interests in every field. Heartfelt condolences to those who lost their lives. Some have become martyrs, and many are forced to become one. If dying is what it means to be a martyr, then perhaps we have all become martyrs long ago. Speechless.”

Then, on Tuesday morning, Khadka posted a video where he said that the past 24 hours had been incredibly sad. With teary eyes, he urged the government to address the demands of the youth, called for early elections, and asked parties to identify young and able leaders to take the country forward.

He could not stop posting more as there was so much happening in the country. But after the resignation of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, he asked Nepalis to show restraint. “Those whom you sought to bring to their knees have already kneeled,” he said. He also requested not to set fire to national data centres and destroy vital documents of historical importance.

Ever since the Nepali Army deployed its troops to the streets to control the situation, Khadka has been urging the security forces to do the needful to stop vandalisation.

While Khadka was devastated by the videos surfacing throughout social media, another former captain, Binod Das, who is also the CAN's cricket manager, was speechless when he saw his car vandalised in Naxal.

At around 1:20pm on Tuesday, demonstrators who had set Hilton Kathmandu hotel on fire from the front came to do the same from the backside. During that time, the demonstrators entered through the gate of Hotel Crown Plaza, where Das’s car was parked alongside several others, and started pelting stones, thinking that Crown Plaza was also part of Hilton. The backside of his car’s glass was damaged. When Das came around half an hour later, after the crowd had left, believing that it was not part of Hilton, Das was in shock to see the damage.

Nepal’s current captain Rohit Kumar Paudel and several of his teammates also took to social media to demand justice for the victims, effective solutions and safety of the public.

National cricketers were also seen taking part in the cleanliness campaign along the Bhadrakali-Singha Durbar route on Wednesday.

The situation on Monday had led the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) to cancel the second friendly between Nepal and Bangladesh slated for Tuesday.

Bangladeshi players and journalists who are in Kathmandu for the friendlies have expressed that the incidents made them recall the protests in Bangladesh last year, bringing a sense of a tragic deja vu.

Kiran Chemjong, Nepal’s skipper, shared Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah’s Facebook post, where Balen requested the youths to end the demonstration as the government had stepped down.

Similarly, Chemjong, on his Facebook post at Tuesday midnight, argued that “we lost despite winning” citing that the destruction of government offices was like hurting ourselves as they were not just structures that got turned into ashes; “they were employment, history and future”.

Meanwhile, Nepal’s goalkeeper Bikesh Kuthu paid tribute to the deceased, and stressed that the moment of reckoning should now come for those politicising the sports sector. “Those who have been doing dirty politics in sports, it is now your turn,” Kuthu wrote. “You will have to pay the price for athletes’ sweat and tears.” His post saw reactions and comments of support from athletes representing other sports too.

The second edition of the Everest Women's Volleyball League, which kicked off in Pokhara last Friday, was postponed following the incidents on Monday. Releasing a press statement on Tuesday, the organisers said that Tuesday's matches were postponed and the team expressed solidarity with the families who lost their dear ones during the demonstrations.

The Nepal Volleyball Association also cancelled their 12th general convention scheduled for September 12 in Pokhara.

Minister for Youth and Sports Teju Lal Chaudhary resigned on Tuesday following tensions across the country. Karate players Arika Gurung, Santosh Shrestha and Sabina Shrestha, and coach Mandekaji Shrestha reached the National Trauma Centre for blood donation on Tuesday morning.

Table tennis player Sikka Suwal Shrestha announced that she would never be part of the departmental clubs Nepal Police, Armed Police Force and Tribhuvan Army in any role.

The NSJF Pulsar Sports Award-2081, which was slated for September 13, has also been postponed.