Tribhuvan Army Club and Nepal Police Club won the Prime Minister's Cup Men's National Cricket Tournament held in Rupandehi on Monday. In the match played at Siddharth Cricket Ground in Bhairahawa on Monday, Army won by 134 runs against Bagmati Province. This is Bagmati's second consecutive defeat.

Batting first, Army scored 262 runs losing 8 wickets in 50 overs. Santosh Karki and Tritaraj Das, who opened for him, shared a partnership of 96 runs. Santosh scored a half century. He faced 98 balls and played the highest innings of 76 runs with 10 fours and 1 six.

Captain Vinod Bhandari scored an unbeaten 47 runs. Tritaraj added 36 runs, Vivek Yadav 30 and Kushal Malla added 26 runs. In bowling, Bagmati's Rijan Dhakal, Pratish JC and Ishan Pandey shared 2-2 and Sonu Devkota took 1 wicket. Bagmati had a poor performance in the

game. Bagmati players added 128 runs losing all the wickets in 27 overs. Fifth order batsman Vivek Magar managed to score 51 runs. Ishan Pandey scored 19 runs and Ashutosh Ghirohia scored 10 runs. Apart from this, other batters could not score runs in double figures. Captain Prithu Baskota was dismissed in 9 runs. Army's Sahab Alam's performance in bowling was excellent. He bowled 8 overs and took 4 wickets for 33 runs with 1 maiden. Similarly, Akash Chand took 3 wickets. Santosh Karki became the player of the match.

Similarly, Nepal Police Club won by defeating Lumbini by 87 runs in the competition held at Extratech Oval Cricket Ground in Tilottama. After winning the toss and batting first, the Police Club scored 249 runs losing 6 wickets in 50 overs. Opener Arjun Saud was dismissed for 9 runs. Then Kushal Bhurtel and Amit Shrestha tried to handle the innings by sharing 82 runs for the third wicket. Amit was dismissed for 22 runs. Kushal scored a half century. He played 75 balls and scored 59 runs with the help of 6 fours and 1 six.

Captain Dipendrasingh Airi scored only 6 runs. Arif Sheikh and Dilip Nath shared a partnership of 78 runs. Dilip was dismissed for 34 runs. Arif scored 56 runs. Gulsan Jha remained unbeaten on 36 runs. Ajay Chauhan bowled for Lumbini for Police and took 3 wickets in 10 overs with only 38 runs with 1 maiden. Krishna Karki also took 3 wickets.

Lumbini, who had a bad start, lost 9 wickets in 50 overs and ended up at 162 runs. Captain Dev Khanal scored only 11 runs for Lumbini, who lost 2 wickets after scoring only 16 runs. He was caught LBW by Lalit Rajvanshi. Opener Mirnal Gurung, who scored 30 runs, returned to the pavilion as the fourth wicket. Prajwal Thapa, who came at number five, could not be supported by other players. He scored the highest 72 runs. Seven other players did not reach double figures.