Horizon won Rs 50,000. Runner-up Leelaram received Rs 25,000.
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Butwal-based New Horizon School has won the title of the Sher Bahadur Century Memorial Inter-School T-20 Cricket Tournament.
In the final held at Siddhartha Cricket Ground, Horizon defeated Rupandehi Leelaram Neupane Mavi Bhairahawa by 5 runs. Horizon won Rs 50,000. Leelaram got Rs 25,000 as the runner-up.
New Horizon, who won the toss and elected to bat, scored 99 runs for the loss of 8 wickets. Prince Pal scored 31 and Arush Adhikari scored 17 runs. Leelaram's Vicky Mallah took 3, Premsagar Yadav took 2, Krishnamohan Kurmi and Ayan Khan took 1 wicket each.
In reply, Leelaram Mavi scored 94 runs in 17.2 overs before being all out. Horizon's Amrit Aryal took 4, Region Budhathoki took 3, Shreyans Gyawali took 2 and Ashram Ali took 1 wicket. Leelaram's Ayan Khan scored 34, Ajay Kewat 21 and Sunil Yadav 16 runs, but it was not enough to win.
Amrit Aryal was named Player of the Final. Prince Pal of New Horizon was named Player of the Series and received Rs 10,000. Samrat Baral of Amarjyoti School was the best bowler and Vasudev Yadav of Lumbini Shiksha Niketan was the best batter. They each received Rs 5,000.
Horizon GBS received Fair Play. Thirty schools from Rupandehi competed in the competition sponsored by Parbat Jewelers, Bhairahawa.
The winners were presented with awards by Siddharthnagar Municipality Mayor Istiyaq Ahmed Khan, Rupandehi Cricket Association President Hari Bahadur Thapa, Founding President Prem Kumar Century, Former President Prashant Bikram Malla, Janak Thapa of Siddharthnagar, Program Coordinator Uday Kumar Mallik, and others.
