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Kathmandu,Monday March 27, 2000 Chaitra 14, 2056.
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Trichandra
lift inaugural VC Cricket Running Shield
By a Post Reporter
KATHMANDU, March 26 - Trichandra Multiple Campus
became the first champions of the Vice-Chancellor Running Shield cricket tournament Sunday
as they defeated the Tribhuvan University by five wickets.
The final played at University ground saw
Tribhuvan University in trouble tackling the tight bowling, coupled with some outstanding
fielding from TC after the skipper, Lok Raj Bhatta won the toss and elected to bat first.
And they could only muster 122 runs in 40 overs.
University batsmen’s poor running between
the wickets in the match did not help their cause either. But it was also because of some
brilliant fielding by TC’s Bimal Bhattarai, who effected three direct hits at the
stumps.
They suffer double blow with just five runs on
board. The first wicket fell in the form of Naresh Nepal when he failed to make into his
grounds. Apurva Thapa, who joined Durga Subedi soon followed without scoring when he tried
to play across the line in Ritesh Baral’s straight delivery only to find his
off-stump knocked back.
The TC misery did not end there as they were
soon found reeling at 18-5. Subedi was run out after making five while Navin Rawal (0)
became Baral’s another prey and Shashi Bhusan Pradhan was next to go, out bowled by
Gaurav Pokharel at four.
Only two partnerships, first between Shanta Shah
and Roshan Gosain for the sixth wicket and Kanchan Pant and Shil Niddhi Chaudhary helped
them reach the respectable total. Pant topscored with 36 before being run out while Shah
and Gosain made 12 and Chaudhary contributed 12.
TC bowlers, after being erratic initially giving
away 29 extras raised their performance with much needed support from the fielders. Ritel
Baral and Bhawesh Shah picked two wickets, but it was Baral who was most economical,
conceding just 12 runs off his 8 overs. Gaurav Pokharel and Rajiv Pant were the other
wicket takers.
TC did not fare any better than their
counterparts when they started to chase the total of 125.
The reshuffling of regular line failed bring
good result and they lost their first wicket at the same total (5) as that of Tribhuvan
University when Sandeep Shah was clean bowled by Kanchan for one.
However, runs kept flowing for TC with Ashok
Adhikari occupying the crease. He added 30 runs with Rajesh Chaudhary for the second
wicket before Chaudhary was run out for six.
Skipper Bhatta revived Tribhuvan
University’s hopes when he bowled Raj Kamal Basnet for nought that left TC at 38-3.
But the important 32-run fourth wicket
partnership between Adhikari (31) and Bimal Bhattarai (21) and unending 46-run for the
sixth wicket between Amit DC (14) and Ritesh Baral (22) sealed the match in TC’s
favour in 35.1 overs with five wickets to spare. Unsurprisingly, Baral was named man of
the match for his good all-round performance.
Navin Rawal was the most successful University
bowler with two wickets.
Chandra Murthi of Saraswoti Campus was declared
the man of the tournament while the distinction of best batsmen and bowler went to Nepal
Commerce Campus’s Monish Shrestha and Gaurav Pokharel of TC respectively.
The University Vice-Chancellor, Nabin Prakash
Jung Shah gave away shields, trophies and other prizes to the players amid a prize
distribution function held after the match.
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