Trit Raj Das makes 61 as Janakpur beat Pokhara by nine runs

Janakpur Bolts beat Pokhara Avengers by nine runs on Sunday at the TU International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur. It was Match 9 of NPL Season 3. Janakpur have won two of their three games, and Pokhara have lost both of theirs.

Das holds it together

Pokhara won the toss and chose to field. Trit Raj Das made 61 off 55 balls, with seven fours and two sixes, and Moeen Ali 21 off 16, but nobody else made more than 11 until Abhishek Tiwari hit 24 not out off 10 balls at the end. Janakpur finished on 147 for 7.

Shakib Al Hasan took three for 15 from his four overs and Chamika Karunaratne two for 23. Mahedi Hasan and Mohammed Saifuddin took one each.

Pokhara fall short

Pokhara captain Kushal Bhurtel made 35 off 24 balls with five fours, but Pokhara slipped to 87 for 7 in the 14th over. Bipin Acharya (20) and Bipin Khatri (17 not out) took them closer, but they finished on 138 for 9.

Moeen took three for 13 from his four overs, with a maiden. Harmeet Singh and Saif Hassan took two each, and Lalit Rajbanshi and Jimmy Neesham one each.

The scorecard and the points table are on the match page.