With a century partnership between David Malan and Arjun Saud, Chitwan Rhinos set a target of 177 runs against defending champions Janakpur Bolts in the Nepal Premier League (NPL) cricket on Tuesday.

After the two shared a 112-run partnership for the first wicket, Chitwan won the toss and came in to bat, scoring 17600 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Although Maj Sadaqat bowled a maiden over in the first play of the match, Chitwan scored a huge score by adding 38 runs in the first play of 6 overs and 76 runs in 10 overs.

While making the fourth century partnership and the third highest partnership in NPL history, Malan and Arjun took full advantage of half a dozen catches left by the Janakpur fielders. Among them, Anil Sah managed to drop a very easy catch for Malan's 35 runs off the ball of Sachin Bhatt, who was playing the first match. Malan scored 80 runs off 54 balls. He hit 4 fours and 5 sixes.

Yan Nicole Lofty Eaton dismissed Arjun in the 14th over, giving Janakpur its first success. Arjun scored 52 runs off 39 balls, hitting 4 fours and 3 sixes. Saif Zaib was out for 7, Ravi Bopara for 3 runs. Captain Kushal Malla remained unbeaten on 30 off 14 balls, hitting 2 fours and a six, while Amar Singh Rautela remained unbeaten on 1 run. Janakpur's Anil, Rupesh Singh, Maj Sadakat and Lofty Eaton took 1 wicket each.

Chitwan has changed two players from the team that lost to Kathmandu Gorkhas by 53 runs in the previous match, playing Amar and Saugat Dhakal. They have been brought in to replace Region Dhakal and Deepak Bohara. Saugat is a player who came from Chitwan's talent hunt.

Although Anil is in the playing 11 in Janakpur, he is not in the captain's position. Wayne Parnell is the captain of Janakpur. Anil and Sachin will replace Lalit Rajbanshi and Kishor Mahato. Lalit has taken 2 wickets and Kishor has taken only 1 wicket in 4 matches in this season's NPL.