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Chitwan Rhinos have won their second consecutive victory in Nepal Premier League (NPL) cricket. On Tuesday, Chitwan won by 87 runs by covering Pokhara Avengers for 74 runs in 13.2 overs. Chitwan beat Kathmandu Gurkhaz by 5 wickets in the first match.
Veteran English batsman Ravi Bopara scored 161 runs by losing 7 wickets while playing the scheduled 20 overs at the Trivi Cricket Ground in Kirtipur on 51 runs by Ravi Bopara. He hit 3 fours and a six in 38 balls. Bopara shared a 68-run partnership for the fourth wicket with captain Kushal Malla. Kushal scored 38 runs off 23 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes.
Openers Deepak Bohra 2 and Hasan Isaakhil 14, Luke Benkenstein 16, Santosh Karki added 11 runs while Sohail Tanveer was out for zero. Sharad Bheshavkar scored 11 off 12 balls and Amarsingh Rautela, who hit a six on the last ball of the innings, scored 13 runs off 6 balls and remained unbeaten. From Pokhara, Bipin Khatri, Vas de Lied and Ramon Rifer took 2 each and Sagar Dhakal took 1 wicket.
After Sohail Tanveer and Rijn Dhakal took 3 wickets each in their respective overs, Pokhara was devastated at the start. Tanveer dismissed Kushal Bhurtel on the first ball of the innings. Tanveer, who had taken 5 wickets in the previous match against Gurkhaz, dismissed Dilip Nath (4) and Bas de Lied (0) in the first over on Tuesday.
Reason dismissed Kiran Thagunna (1) and Michael Lisk lbw for nil, along with opener Dinesh Kharel (1) in the fourth over. After that, Pokhara lost 6 wickets when it was 7 runs and 7 wickets when it was 17 runs. Benkenstein also took 3 wickets. He dismissed Rifer for 1 to Marcus Critchley for 17.
Deependrasinh Airi of Far West after scoring a half century. Photo: Hemant Shrestha/Kantipur
Critchley hit 2 fours in 16 balls. Narayan Joshi scored the highest 30 runs from Pokhara. He hit 3 fours and 2 sixes in 24 balls. Benkenstein made him his third victim. Vipin Khatri was bowled by Deepak Bohra for 9 runs.
Sudurpaschim Royals defeated Biratnagar Kings by 90 runs in the first match of the day after captain Dipendra Singh Airey scored a quick fifty. While Sudoor scored 182 runs losing 7 wickets, Dipendra scored 57 unbeaten runs in 24 balls. He hit consecutive sixes off Pratish Ji in the last two balls of the innings. After Dipendra hit 3 sixes in the last over only, Sudurpaschim scored 23 runs. Dipendra hit a total of 3 fours and 5 sixes.
Dipendra and Ishan Pandey added 49 runs in 25 balls for the sixth wicket. Ishan scored 21 runs in 16 balls with 2 fours and 1 six and was run out. Opener Amit Shrestha scored 1, another opener Vinod Bhandari scored 23 with 3 fours in 20 balls, Arif Sheikh was dismissed for 9 runs.
Saif Zaib hit 14 with 1 six off 15 balls, Brandon McMullen hit 36 off 26 balls with 2 fours and a six and Scott Kugelein hit 2 fours off 6 balls for 10 runs. Anil Kharel took 3 wickets, Chris Soul, Ismat Alam and Basir Ahmed took 1 wicket each. In the
reply, Biratnagar were bowled out for 92 runs in 16.1 overs. Basir scored 24 with 2 fours in 28 balls, Rajesh Pulami scored 15 with 1 six in 15 balls, Anil scored 10 not out and Sol scored 9 runs. Lokesh Bam was dismissed for 2 runs.
Kugelein of Far West gave 30 runs in 4 overs and took 3 wickets. He bowled Martin Guptill for zero on the third ball of the innings and weakened the chances of Biratnagar reaching the target.
Kugelein also dismissed Nicholas Kirtan. Avinash Bohra spent only 17 runs in 3 overs and Brandon McMullen, Saif Zaib and Ishan Pandey took 1 wicket each.
