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Nepal Police Club has won the third MM Cup One Day National Cricket Tournament title. The police stopped Tribhuvan Army Club's hat-trick title journey and won the MM Cup for the first time.
In the final held at the Girija Prasad Koirala Cricket Ground in Baijnathpur, Biratnagar on Saturday, Police defeated the two edition winners Army by 24 runs. Both times the army defeated the police and became the winner. This time the police has taken revenge against the army.
After chasing the target of 240 runs, the Army managed to score 215 runs after losing all the wickets in 48 overs. Himanshu Dutta contributed half century. He hit 6 fours and 2 sixes in 80 balls. Nischal Chhetri scored 36 runs, Imran Sheikh scored 24 runs and Narine Saud scored 21 runs. Vishal Susling scored 18 runs while captain Vinod Bhandari scored 7 runs. The Army, which had a great start, lost only 1 wicket while scoring 130 runs. But after Himanshu Dutta was caught out by Bipin Khatri in the 27th over, the fall of Army wickets did not stop and Police returned to the game. Police's Shravan Yadav, playing in his hometown, took 4 important wickets from Vinod Bhandari, Naren Saud, Tul Bahadur Thapa and Sumit Shrestha. He spent 63 runs in 10 overs. Chitra Bishta took 2 wickets, Bipin Khatri and Sunil Dauliyal took 1 wicket each.
Police, who lost the toss and batted earlier, scored 239 runs after losing all the wickets in the allotted 50 overs. Arun Airey scored the highest 64 runs. He played 89 balls and hit 1 four and 2 sixes. Captain Shankar Rana scored 51 runs off 81 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes. Deepak Dumre scored 36 runs, Shravan Yadav scored 32 and Avinash Karn scored 19 runs. Army's Durgesh Gupta, Naren and Tul Bahadur took 2 wickets each. Vishal Susling, Pawan Karki and Sumit Shrestha took 1 wicket each.
player of the match was Shravan Yadav. He got 4 thousand rupees. The winning police lifted the trophy with 4 lakhs. Army got 2 lakh rupees. Army's Naren Saud was the best player. He got 25 thousand rupees. The best batsman was Shankar Rana of Police and the best bowler was Prem Kamat of Koshi Pradesh. They got Rs 15,000 each. The winning players were awarded by Mayor of Biratnagar Mahanagar Nagesh Koirala, Vice President of CAN Roshan Singh and others. 6 teams including one Indian participated in the tournament organized by MM Cup Foundation Sunsari.
