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| Kathmandu, Wednesday April 17, 2002 Baishakh 04, 2059. |
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Ktm annihilate Bhaktapur
Post Report
KATHMANDU, April 16: Atish Shrestha’s
all-round brilliance helped Kathmandu humiliate Bhaktapur by 141 runs in the ongoing
Regional Cricket Selection tournament being held at the TU ground.
Shrestha, who was later declared man of the
match, contributed 56 runs off 77 balls in Kathmandu’s total of 231 runs after being
sent in to bat. He then returned to claim two wickets in his spell of five overs.
Apart from Shrestha, Paresh Lohani (46),
Birendra Shah (30) Bardan Chalise (29 unbeaten) and Kiran Rana (22) batted aggressively to
provide the bulk to Kathmandu’s score. For Bhaktapur, Niraj Pahadi claimed three
wickets while Maheshwor grabbed a couple. However the wickets came at an expensive rate as
all the Bhaktapur bowlers were punished by Kathmandu batsmen.
Chasing a formidable target of 232 runs in 40
overs, Bhaktapur batsmen could not handle accurate bowling of Kathmandu. Subrata Pandey
was the lone batsman to offer resistance scoring sedate 22 runs off 88 balls. The
remaining batsmen crumbled against Raju Basnet who broke Bhaktapur’s backbone with
four wickets from 7.3 overs conceding just eight runs. Kalam Ali and Shrestha chipped in
with two wickets each as Bhaktapur were bundled out for 90 runs in 39.3 overs.
Kathmandu take on Nuwakot on Wednesday. |
