On Tuesday, Rupandehi and Banke won the Leela Century Memorial U-16 Lumbini state level cricket tournament in Rupandehi.

Kapilvastu, who won the toss and batted in the match at Siddharth Cricket Ground in Bhairawa, played 28 overs in 28 overs in the scheduled 35 overs and scored 111 runs while losing all wickets. For him, Suraj Yadav scored 46 runs and Raunak Srivastava scored 23 runs. In

bowling, Prince Pal of Rupandehi took 3 wickets, Soaib Hasan Muslim and Suraj Ranabhat took 2 each and Tushar Chauhan took 1 wicket. Batting back, Rupandehi completed the target of 112 runs in 10 overs of 5 balls. He scored 113 runs while losing only 3 wickets. 

Captain Sameer Ali Muslim scored an unbeaten 70 runs for Rupandehi. He faced 37 balls and hit 12 fours and 2 sixes. Similarly, Arif Khan added 21 runs and Siddharth Dhakal added 11 runs. In bowling, Kapilvastu's Suraj Yadav took 2 wickets and Kamran Ahmed took 1 wicket. Rupandehi's Sameer Ali Muslim became the player of the match.

Similarly, in the next match, Banke won against Bardia by completing the run score in 19 overs. Bardia, who won the toss and batted in the match at the Extratech Oval cricket ground in Tilottama, scored a total of 96 runs losing all wickets in 25 overs. For him, Keshav Bisht scored 17 runs and Hemant Acharya and Nirajan Thapa scored 14 runs, but other batsmen could not collect runs in double figures. In bowling, Nikhil Dhankutta and Ashish Nau took 3/3, Bhuwan Shahi 2 and Nirajan Chand took 1 wicket.

Banke won by scoring 97 runs in 19 overs and losing 7 wickets in 4 balls. Diyans Burma scored 47 and Nirajan Chand added 12 unbeaten runs in his victory. In bowling, Saksham Budhathoki of Bardia took 3 wickets and Hemant Acharya, Sanyak Jang Thapa and Ayush Neupane took 1/1 wicket each. In the match Nikhil Dhankutta from Banke was the player of the match, said the match coordinator Pratham Parajuli.