On the last match of the league stage of Karnali Premier League which is being held in Surkhet, Armed Police Force (APF) defeated Mahendranagar Cricket Academy (MCA). APF all the 3 matches played in the group stage and are in the semifinal of the tournament as the leader of Group B.
This summarizes the semi finalists for Karnali Premier League (KPL). The semi finalists from Group A are Karnali-11 (winner of Group A) and Tribhuwan Army Club (TAC / runner up of Group A) and the semi finalists from Group B are APF (winner of Group B) and New Horizon Cricket Academy (NHCA / runner up of Group B). The semifinal matches of the tournament will be played tomorrow. Karnali -11 and NHCA will play in the first semi while TAC and APF will play in the second semi final of the tournament.
In the last match played yesterday, APF made 143 runs after winning the toss with the loss of 9 wickets in the first innings of 20 overs. Sumit Maharjan scored 26 runs, Bhuwan Karki scored 20 runs, Ayushman Bom scored 15 and Kamal Singh Airi scored an unbeaten 12 runs for APF. At a stage, APF were 48 runs with the loss of 5 wickets. Sumit Maharjan and Bhuwan Karki made a partnership of 46 runs to handle the innings for APF. Santosh Bhatta and Akash Chand took 3 wickets each while Bikram took 2 wickets for MCA.
Chasing the target, MCA played 20 overs but they could only make 125 runs with the loss of 8 wickets and they lost the match by 18 runs. Kamal Singh Airi took 3 wickets and Bhuwan Karki had 2 wickets under his name. Santosh Bhatta made 50 runs but that was insufficient for MCA to win the match. He played 35 balls and scored 4 fours and 3 sixes in the match. Hemanta Karki also scored 30 runs for MCA. The other batsman did not make enough contributions for MCA. Bhuwan Karki was the player of the match.
The winner of the tournament will get a reward of 5 lakhs while the runner up will get the reward of 2 lakhs from the organizers of the tournament. The player of match will get 3500. The best batsman and bowler of the tournament will get 20,000 while the player of the series will get 50,000.
Originally posted in my scorum blog [here] (https://scorum.com/en-us/cricket/@welcometonepal/list-of-semi-final-for-kpl-is-ready)