Sudurpaschim Province's second win as Police went undefeated in 6 matches
Spinners Lalit Rajvanshi and Gulshan Jha's excellent performances have won Nepal Police Club their sixth victory in the Prime Minister's Cup ODI Men's National Cricket Tournament. Title contenders Police beat Gandaki Pradesh by 7 wickets on Wednesday at Siddharth Cricket Stadium in Bhairawa. Police are undefeated. Police chased down the modest target of 93 runs with the loss of 3 wickets in 16 overs.
Captain Dipendrasingh Airi scored the highest 54 runs. He hit 3 fours and 6 sixes off 23 balls. Opener Arjun Saud scored 18 not out and Dilip Nath scored 10 runs. Kushal Bhurtel was dismissed for 7 runs by Amit Shrestha.
Gandaki won the toss and scored 92 runs in 23.2 overs after winning the toss at Siddharth Cricket Stadium. Arjun Kumal scored the highest 48 runs. He hit 8 fours off 63 balls. Apart from Rohit Chand and Subas Bhandari scoring 10 runs each, the others could not score runs in double figures. Vansh Chhetri, Deepak Dumre, Sandeep Parajuli and skipper Bipin Khatri were dismissed without a run. Sudeep Aryal scored 7 runs unbeaten.
Police's Lalit and Gulshan bowled hard and Gandaki was covered cheaply. Lalit alone took 5 wickets. He took 7 runs in 5.2 overs with 2 maidens. Gulshan took 4 wickets. He spent 48 runs with a maiden in 8 overs. Police remain at the top with 12 points. Gandaki is at the bottom with 2 points. Gandaki has one win in 6 matches.
Sudoor's second win
Sudoor Paschim defeated Lumbini by 5 wickets on Wednesday at the Extratech Oval ground in Tilottama. Sudurpaschim completed the target of 117 runs by losing 5 wickets in 31.1 over. This is Far West's second win. Earlier, Sudurpaschim had defeated Gandaki. Kiran Thagunna from Sudoor contributed an unbeaten 43 runs. He hit 4 fours and 2 sixes off 43 balls. Captain Narayan Joshi remained unbeaten on 25 runs. Prakash Pandey scored 22 runs and Khadak Bohra scored 11 runs. Lumbini's Ramesh Kurmi took 2 wickets. Nirmal Gurung, Ajay Chauhan, Viprasan KC took 1 wicket each.
Lumbini, who won the toss before that, lost all wickets in 44.1 overs and made only 116 runs. Lumbini captain Dev Khanal scored 41 runs. While Prajwal Thapa scored 30 runs, others could not score runs in double figures. Hemant Dhami of Sudupashchim took the most 4 wickets.
He spent 26 runs keeping a maiden in 9 overs. He was the player of the match. Saurya Shrestha, Sher Malla and Milan Bohra took 2 wickets each. Far West has moved up to the seventh position in the table. Despite the loss, Lumbini remains in third place. Lumbini has four wins in 6 matches. On Thursday, Lumbini and Karnali will meet at Siddharth Cricket Stadium and Nepal Police Club and Bagmati Pradesh will meet at Extratech.
