Solid batting and exceptional bowling lead Team Chauraha Dhangadhi to their second consecutive victory, surpassed Mahendranagar United by 8 wickets
Kami’s men fielded first after winning the toss. Sompal Kami himself along with left-arm pacer, Lalit Bhandari gave tough time to United’s opening duo, Binod Bhandari and Aasif Sheikh, before Lalit Bhandari trapped Sheikh (08) in front of LED-stump. Lalit Bhandari immediately sent back incoming Hari Sankhar Shah (00) in same over itself. Skipper Kami couldn’t stayed back for long as he dismissed opposition’s skipper, Binod Bhandari (11), with classical delivery in very next over. Hold on, Lalit Bhandari didn’t stopped here as his 5th delivery of 6th over was good enough to carried Aarif Sheikh’s (00) edge where Raju Rijal did the rest. Incoming Rohit Kumar Paudel (03) found quite short of line while Mustafa’s dislodged stump’s bails. Application less batting show from United’s top order resulted lost of 5 wickets within 8 overs with less than 50 runs on board. Bhuwan Karki came out with the bat at no.7, which on partnership between him and Bista. They stand together for 22 more runs before Bista made his way back with handy 24 runs for his team. He smashed 4 glorious fours. Then, Mehra tighten up his hip along with Karki and shared all important 53 runs stand which was broken by Lalit Bhandari in penultimate over of the inning. Mehra scored worthy 40 runs from 22 balls which include 4 fours and 2 sixes. His fellow Bhuwan Karki stand till the last over and added 32 runs from 40 balls with a four and 2 sixes. Mehra-Karki’s inning propelled United’s score to respectable total of 131 runs with the lost of 8 wickets in stipulated 20 overs. For Dhangadhi, it was Bhandari’s day who picked up 4 crucial wickets on his way to procured the figure of (4-0-37-4). He sent back Aasif Sheikh, Aarif Shikh, Hari Sankhar Shah and Mehra in his quota of 4 overs. Sompal Kami and Samsad Sheikh too hold on with a wicket each.
In reply, Ashfaq Ahmed along with Sunil Dhamala came backed to bat for Dhangadhi. They passed initial phase and shared 47 runs from 51 balls. Ahmed departed off Mehra bowl in his personal score of 30 runs. He took 24 balls for it with 6 fours in his name. Rohan Mustafa batted well to score 39 runs from 30 balls with 3 sixes and a four. Then, Sonu Tamang smashed some shots to score quick fire 15 runs from 7 balls. He smashed a four and six to sealed 8 wickets victory for Dhangadhi with 12 balls to spare. Dhamala was solid throughout the inning with 46 runs from 47 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. For United, Mehra bowled beautifully and took a wicket to achieved applaudable figure of (4-0-22-1). Avinash Karn was another wicket holder, who sent back Mustafa.
Dhangadhi will face Biratnagar Kings where United will meet Rupandehi Challengers on 5th April.
