{"id":57514,"date":"2026-10-28T21:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57514"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T15:59:26","slug":"sudurpaschim-defeat-pokhara-by-6-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/sudurpaschim-defeat-pokhara-by-6-wickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudurpaschim defeat Pokhara by 6 wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Oct 28: Sudurpaschim Royals have defeated Pokhara Avengers by 6 wickets in the match held under the Nepal Premier League (NPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament today.<\/p>\n<p>After restricting Pokhara to 145 runs in the stipulated 20 overs in the match played under lights at the TU International Cricket Stadium in Kirtipur, Sudurpachim achieved the victory target of 146 runs in 16.5 overs with the loss of only four wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Dipendra Singh Airee led from the front scoring a brilliant half-century (51 runs in 36 balls), and finishing off in style, hitting a six off his opposite captain Kushal Bhurtel. Ishan Pandey contributed 37 runs in 31 balls in his team&#8217;s victory while Brandon McMullen scored 22 runs in just 12 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Pokhara bowlers, Dhananjaya Laxshan, Shakib Al Hasan and Mahedi Hasan took 1 wicket each in trying to stop Sudurpachim from a win.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, opting to bowl first after winning the toss, Sudurpaschim managed to keep their opposition to a partly total, taking 7 wickets and giving away only 145 runs in 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>For Pokhara, Arjun Gharti was the top scorer with 40 runs in 25 balls followed by Mahedi Hasan who scored 32 runs in 21 balls. Other notable contributors to Pokhara&#8217;s total were Captain Kushal Burtel (21) and Shakib Al Hasan (14).<\/p>\n<p>For the bowling side, Anil Kharel took 3 wickets while Hemant Dhami, Dipendra Singh Airee and Scott Kuggeleijn took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>This is Sudurpaschim&#8217;s first win after the loss against Lumbini Lions in the inaugural match. Pokhara have suffered a loss in their first match of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>There are two matches being played tomorrow at the same venue. Janakpur Bolts face Kathmandu Gurkhas in the first match while Karnali Yaks will play against Biratnagar Kings in the second match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 28: Sudurpaschim Royals have defeated Pokhara Avengers by 6 wickets in the match held under the Nepal Premier League (NPL) Twenty20 cricket tournament today. After restricting Pokhara to 145 runs in the stipulated 20 overs in the match played under lights at the TU International Cricket Stadium in Kirtipur, Sudurpachim achieved the victory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57516,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57514\/revisions\/57516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}