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Kathmandu Friday March 30, 2001 Chaitra 17, 2057.
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Birgunj continue winning streak
Post Report
KATHMANDU, March 29 - Birgunj team continued its winning streak with the
third successive win in the ongoing Under-19 Regional selection cricket tournament held at
Tribhuvan University ground today.
Birgunj boys defeated their opponents Nepalgunj by a huge difference of 84
runs to dominate the tournament. Electing to take first strike after winning the toss,
Birgunj posted a score of 227 runs at the end of allotted 50 overs losing five wickets.
It was Sanjay Wonjon’s 94 runs which helped his team to put up the
decent total against their opponents. Sanjay who came into the crease after the wicket of
opener Prakash fell down managed to sum up the huge individual contribution with seven
hits to the fence facing 139 balls. Binod Das played a wonderful cameo of 39 runs out of
33 balls belting five boundaries off the Nepalgunj bowlers.
The bowlers of Nepalgunj could not do much against the patience to remain on
the crease shown by the Birgunj boys. Meraj Ansari bowled pretty well though he could only
gather one wicket in his quota of 10 overs giving 38 runs. Rafiq Ansari was rather
expensive in his seven overs to give away 47 runs to claim one wicket. Ramesh Thakur and
Irfan Siddique also took one wicket each.
Nepalgunj, who are considered as the underdogs of the tournament, came out to
face a difficult target of almost five runs per over against the vicious bowling attack of
their rivals. Rafiq, who came as an opener tried to consolidate the game with his
individual contribution of 23 runs that he scored with the help of two boundaries facing
39 balls. Unlike Rafiq, it was too difficult for his partner Narendra Bohra to remain in
the crease for a long time. Narendra returned to the pavilion with only 9 runs to his
account. Shantosh Shrestha, the highest run maker among his team mates, played a sensible
game to remain in the crease to score 24 runs. The Nepalgunj team who lost their wickets
at the regular intervals could not reach anywhere near the required score. It was the
superb bowling performance of Murtuja Hawari which smashed the batting line up of the
Nepalgunj to pack up with 142 runs on the scoreboard. Murtuja claimed four wickets in his
10 overs spending 23 runs to shatter the winning dream of his rivals. Vijay Mehta and
Sanjay Regmi also claimed one wicket each to win the match.
Sanjay Wonjan was declared man of the match for his excellent inning of 94
runs which more or less decided the match in favour of his team. Tomorrow’s match
will be played between Birgunj and Bhairahawa.
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