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Kathmandu Thursday April 19, 2001 Baishakh 06, 2058.
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Bara enters
next round of tournament topping the group
Post Report
KATHMANDU, 18 April- Bara beat Rupandehi by
near margin of 18 runs and registered itself on the first position from group B in ongoing
17th Jai Trophy National Cricket Tournament here at University Ground Kirtipur.
After winning the toss, Rupandehi’s
skipper invited their opponent to bat first in the wet, rain effected pitch and cloudy
weather which cause Bara’s disastrous start. Pace-man Durga Sen 05-00-24-03 of
Rupandehi, taking the advantage of wet pitch sent three of the Bara’s top order
batsmen very cheaply. Since 22 overs were reduced from the allotted 50 overs, Bara only
managed 123 runs with the loss of 7 wickets.
Entire Bara’s batting was dominated by
Man of the Match Dipesh Shrestha who made not out thrilling 28 off just 26 balls including
two huge sixes off inning’s last two balls of Anup Thapa which became the determiner
of the match. Beside Dipesh, Sameer Thakur made 24 runs off 50 balls including one sixer
and two boundaries. He was well supported by the all rounder Binod Das who contributed 19
runs with a six . Jitendra Yadav, the number seven batsman sustained the innings by
hitting 16 runs off just 18 balls. Bowling department of Rupandehi looked vulnerable
during the slogs, but left arm orthodox spinner Anil B. K. 06-00-18-02, and pace man Raj
Kumar Majumdar 05-01-13-00 and not to forget Durga Sen looked impressive.
Chasing a descent looking target of 124
Rupandehi had a bad start after they lost the first wicket with naught on board. It was
the vital partnership of 49 runs put by Shanker Rana 30 runs off 53 balls and Sanjiv
Joshi’s 30 runs off 46 balls which placed Rupandehi on the driving seat. Things went
wrong after Pawan and Sanjam of Bara broke the partnership which resulted in loss of
middle order without much contribution. In the later part of the inning all rounder Durga
Sen tried to upset Bara by collecting 20 runs off just 21 balls including one four before
being bowled by Binod Das on the last ball of the inning.
All the bowlers introduced by Bara’s
captain bowled superbly. Off-spinner Sanjam Regmi was among the top who finished with
06-00-18-04 and Pawan also claimed three wickets in his six overs conceding just 22 runs.
Binod Das claimed two wickets whereas Rupesh Upreti grabbed just one. Rupandehi was 18
runs short, managing to score just 105 runs, to win the game. Bara being the top by
winning all three matches from group B entered the next round of the tournament.
Kathmandu will take on Chitwan tomorrow in
the first match of Group C.
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