Nepal Pro Club Championship

[The Professor]

Nepal's T20 competition kicked off last week. So far the biggest winners are Rupandehi and Nepal Army who have both won 2 from 2 whilst Nepal Police and the Talent Hunt Cricket Academy are both hunting their first win.



In terms of great individual success Push Sports Delhi's Sachin K Singh registered 6-20 in their opening round win against the Police. Rohit Paudel has benefited from playing twice but his 80 last week against the Armed Police was bolstered by a further 42 against Talent Hunt to see him as the highest overall runscorer and the player with the highest total.

[The Professor]

The final of this tournament will be played out on Saturday with Rupandehi facing off against Malaysia XI.


Malaysia had an unusual semi final against Uttar Pradesh as it was only 5 overs a side due to rain. Malaysia got 44-3 whilst Uttar Pradesh could only manage 30.

The second semi was unaffected and more of an entertaining prospect, however Rupandehi ran out comfortable winners. The all-round prowess of Basir Ahamad had the largest effect on the game. He broke the Army Club's opening partnership and then effected a run out for the second wicket before finishing with figures of 2-17. The Army were all out for 103. Rupandehi didn't get off to the strongest start and were 20-3 but he shepherded his side to the total for the loss of 4 wickets. 3 of those four wickets went to the fast bowling of Bikram Sob.

Rohit Paudel is still the highest run scorer with 187 but is now out of the competition with Malaysia's Virandeep Singh 47 behind him. Virandeep is also the tournament's best bowler with 9 wickets @ 5.22.

[The Professor]

Before tomorrow's showpiece final, it was time to to sort out the chaff from the slightly better chaff with the 5th and 3rd place playoffs.



The 5th placed play off was a total crushing of Push Sports Delhi by the Armed Police Force. The Police's Bhuvan Karki must feel like he's walking on the moon thanks to figures of 4-23 as PSD were all out for 62. Other than their opener, the highest score achieved was 6 by their number 11.



The 3rd place playoff was more of a battle, but still a bowlers affair. Uttar Pradesh put on 139-8 - the joint highest total of the tournament. This was backed up by an all round performance with the ball; however Vipin Chandra (one of two bowlers to get 3-16) gets my player of the match award as he also contributed 11 with the bat. Nepal Army Club will have to settle for fourth this year.