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Departmental team Nepal Police Club defeated Tribhuvan Army Club and won the Jai Trophy men's elite cup cricket tournament title.
Police won the tournament by defeating Army by 28 runs in the final held on Thursday at Narayani Cricket Ground in Birgunj. Chasing the target of one hundred and three runs given by the police, the Army lost all wickets in 29.2 overs in the second session of the third day and was reduced to 74 runs.
Imran Sheikh scored the highest 28 runs while Sompal Kami and Vinod Bhandari scored equal 11/11 runs. Apart from that, other players could not make runs in double figures. Police's Sagar Dhakal took six wickets and Lalit Rajvanshi took four wickets.
In the second innings, after Police were all out for 139 runs, Army got a target of 139 runs. Police started the third day's match with 132 runs for the loss of nine wickets. After losing the last wicket after adding seven more runs, Police made a lead of one hundred and two runs in the second innings. Basir Ahmed dismissed Lalit as the last wicket. Sagar Dhakal remained not out for six runs.
For Police, opener Kushal Bhurtel scored 45, Dilip Nath 34, Rashid Khan 18, opener Amit Shrestha scored 13. Apart from that, the other batsmen of Police could not score runs in double figures . Army's Basir and Sahab Alam took five wickets each. In the first innings, the police scored 133 runs for the loss of nine wickets and announced the end of the innings, while the army scored 170 runs. Bhim Sarki scored the highest 58 runs in the first innings for Army. He hit six fours and three sixes in 55 balls. Basir scored 40, Sompal scored 32 and captain Vinod scored 14. Sagar took five wickets in the first innings for the
police. Kushal Bhurtel took three wickets and Lalit and Gulshan Jha took one wicket each. Before that, the police, who lost the toss and were invited to bat, announced the end of the innings after losing nine wickets and scoring 133 runs in the first innings. Opener Kushal scored the highest 51 runs for Police. Arjun Saud has scored 28, Amit 20 and Rashid 10.
Army's Sahab Alam took seven wickets, Sompal and Basir Ahmed took one wicket each.
