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Kathmandu,Thursday February 17, 2000 Fagun 05, 2056.
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NPCC lift Shankar cricket championship
By a Post Reporter
NEPALGUNJ, Feb 16- New Prakash
Cricket Club (NPCC) lifted the Late Shankar Bahadur Shah Running Cricket championship here
today.
In a one sided final they made a
shortwork of the rivals Royal Sports Club. Chasing Prakash Cricket Club’s total of
181, Royal Sports Club were shut out for a unbelievable 37 runs. A pathetic batting
display by Royal Sports Club meant that they not only lost the match by a huge margin of
144 runs but also disappointed a huge crowd that had gathered to enjoy the final match.
It was a devastating bowling
spell by Prakash Cricket Club’s Arvind who broke the back of the Royal Sports
Club’s batting line up by scalping the first four wickets to fall. Noted batsmen of
the likes of Javed Siddiqui and Imtiaz Siddiqui fell prey to Arvind’s devastating
pace. Both of them failed to trouble the score while Arvind’s two other scalps--the
two openers had a single run against their names.
Royal Sports Club which depended
so heavily on the Siddiqui duo was rocked by the early dismissal of their star batsmen.
The score at this stage read 8-4. And the inning never seemed to recover from then on.
They were 11-5, 11-6, 27-7 and then eventually all out for 37 runs.
Apart from Arvind, Rafiq was the
other successful bowler picking up 3 wickets while Khagendra also had two wickets.
Earlier Prakash Star Club
winning the toss and electing to bat first began their inning well with the openers
putting on 39 runs for the opening partnership.
One down bat Narendra Sijapati
was then involved in a 41 runs partnership for the second wicket that took the score to
81.
There were also valuable
contribution from the middle order and the score at the end of the 40 overs was looking
good enough to defend but it proved too good.
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