In the final with a comfortable victory for Police over Bagmati

Nepal Police Club and Tribhuvan Army Club will play for the title of Jai Trophy Elite Cup cricket tournament. The league stage of the four-team competition was held in a two-day format, while the finals will be a three-day event.

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In the final with a comfortable victory for Police over Bagmati

Nepal Police Club defeated Bagmati Province by 5 wickets at Janakpur's Ramjanki multi-purpose stadium on Sunday. The police also completed the formalities of the final with this victory.

In the first match, Police was tied with departmental rival Tribhuvan Army Club and in the second match, they defeated Madhesh Pradesh by one innings and 32 runs. The police did not have to face much challenge to win the Bagmati. 

Police completed the target of 116 runs in 23 overs. Although opener Dilip Nath was dismissed for 4 runs, Kushal Bhurtel and Amit Shrestha played aggressively and shared 43 runs off 32 balls. Kushal, who is captaining in the absence of Arif Sheikh, scored 32 runs by hitting 4 fours and 2 sixes in 19 balls.

Amit who scored 79 runs in the first innings also scored a half century in the second innings. He hit 9 fours while making 56 runs off 45 balls. Shankar Rana was out for 1 and Rashid Khan was out for nil. Arjun Saud remained unbeaten on 20 and Prem Tamang on 1 run. Bagmati captain Sandeep Lamichhane took 2 wickets and Nandan Yadav, Pratish GC and Surya Tamang took 1 wicket each.

In the final with a comfortable victory for Police over Bagmati

Bagmati's second innings, which started the second day's match with 8 runs without loss, ended with 218 runs in 53 overs. Rit Gautam and Shubh Kansakar added 109 runs for the second wicket after Ishan Pandey was dismissed for 3 runs. Shubh, who completed his half-century in 44 balls, scored 72 runs in 74 balls. He hit 10 fours and 1 six . 

Rit played 93 balls and scored 52 runs with 8 boundaries. Roshan Wick 4, Uttam Thapamagar 14, Prateek Shrestha 13, Nandan 10, Sandeep 16, Pratish 3 runs out. The pair of Surya and Rijn Dhakal shared 24 runs in the last wicket. Surya played 30 balls and hit 2 fours and got out for 16 runs. Region remained unbeaten by 10 runs . 

Police's left-arm spinner Lalit Rajwanshi spent 59 runs in 20 overs, Shravan Yadav spent 33 runs in 9 overs and spent 2 and Gulshan Jha, Rashid, Kushal and Prem took 1 wicket each. The final match of Jai Trophy will be held at Narayani Stadium in Birgunj. The police team will reach Birganj on Monday to play the final.  

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