Biratnagar and Bhairahawa triumph

Region No 1 Biratnagar won the match against Region No 6 Baitadi at the Pepsi T-20 National League Cricket Tournament at Pulchowk Engineering Campus Cricket Ground, Lalitpur.
Batting first, Biratnagar manages the 132-8 in allotted 17 overs. Mehboob Alam fired with bat and scored 52 runs in 28 balls with 2 four and 5 sixes. Ajay Rajbanshi contributed 24 runs and Manjeet Shrestha and Prashant Das scored 15 and 10 runs respectively. Pradeep Ayree, Shakti Bhandari and Prem Budal shared 2 wickets each. Bhuwan Karki took 1 wicket for Baitadi. In reply, Region No 6 couldn’t hold the nerves and hand over the game to Biratnagar. Wicket batsman Binod Bhandari scored fluent 62 runs in 47 balls with 6 four and 3 big sixes. Shakti Bhandari scored quickfire 43 runs of 34 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes but not been able to guide their team to victory. Player of the match Mehboob Alam returns with 4-1-9-3 figure for Biratnagar. Manjeet Shrestha and Ajay Rajbanshi took 2 and 1 wicket respectively.
In the following match of the same day, Bhairahawa dominates Birgunj by 89 runs. Shakti Gauchan scored 40 runs with four hit to fence. Skipper Antim Thapa hits 28 runs and Dipesh Khatri scored quickie 24 runs in 17 balls. For Birgunj, Binod Das and Sanjam Regmi grabbed 3 wickets each. Raj Mohammad got 1 wicket in his name. At second inning, Birgunj shows the poorest batting against the strong bowling attack of Bhairahawa. None single batmen of their playing 11 reached the double figure. Dipendra Shan and Ajay Mandal both scored 7 runs each. Krishna Karki grabbed 3 wickets conceding just 8 runs in his four over spell. Amrit Bhttarai and Rahul Kumar BK took two wickets each. Hemanta Acharya, Vijay Thapa and Shakti Gauchan shared 1 wicket apiece.