Old rivals laligurans club and Khukuri club will meet on the final of the Khukuri cricket tournament which is going to be played this sunday.On the second semifinal of the Khukuri cricket tournament played last sunday, laligurans club beat Ghar Nepal by 7 wickets.Winning the toss and elected to bat first Ghar Nepal club were all out making 118 runs in 25 overs.Opener Binod lama was the highest scorer from the team making 31 runs and Ganesh from laligurans took 4 wickets.Laligurans took no time in reaching the target of 118 runs by just batting 17 overs and losing only 2 wickets.Arjen scored a brilliant 42 runs with 5 fours and 2 sixes.

Nabin Gurung was named the man of the match for his superb 53 runs which includes 2 fours and massive 5 sixes.

 The final game between Laligurans and Khukuri will be played this sunday.

Venue: Princess park, corner of KingGeorges road and Forest Road,Hurstville

Date and Time: 21st March, 11.30pm.

Khukuri team won a thrilling match and make into the final after defeating Kuleshwore by six wickets on Sunday.  Although the match was not a high scoring game, both teams felt the nerves of getting into final. Kuleshwore batted first and made a good start with some aggression from Purshottam (19). He was backed up by Niraj  Basnet who scored 52 runs. But batsmen  who followed them could not make a big score except Surjan who made 25 runs. Kuleshwore made a total of 136 runs.  From Khukuri. Bijay took 3 wickets, Kapil took 2 wickets  and  Biraj, Dev and Saroj took 1 wicket each. Khukuri felt the nerve while batting when Manish was run out for 4 but a glorious inning from Biraj who scored 66 not out kept their final dream alive.  Rishi and Suraj contributed 16 runs each while Subin made 17 valuable runs. A tighty bowling from Kuleshwore kept khukuri under pressure all the time but in the last over, Khukuri managed to reach the total with 4 balls to spare.
 Biraj Shrestha was named man of the match.

Biratnagar XI beat Laligurans in the rain delayed match which was shortened to 15 overs each. Laligurans batted first and posted a total of 101. Arjen (29) was the  top score despite the short inning. Jayesh from Biratnagar took five wickets to control the flow of runs. Scorecard

Although Biratnagar had a shaky start with opener Prabhu out quickly, Rajiv (12), Mukesh (47) and Raguvendra (28) took their team to first victory of the tournament by winning with 4 wickets. Bowler Gunjan and Ganesh took 2 wickets each.

Jayesh was named man of the match for his 5 wicket haul.

Laligurans displayed a total domination over the tournament so far by beating one of the strong opponent Khukuri  by 6 wickets. Khukuri made a solid start with both openers Manish(30) and Suraj (29) contributing a half centuary partnership in between them. Following batsmen especially Dev (24) and Saoj (26) boosted the total runs and made a competitive total of 161. From Laligurans Arjen and Ganesh took 3 wickets each while Rajkumar also took two wickets.

AlthoughLaligurans lost opener Rajkumar without scoring Nabin(29) and Ganesh(67) took full control of the game. A great inning fom Ganesh made the total easier and  quick fire from Arjan (31) and Sudhir (12) finished the game. Saroj (1) , Suraj (1) and Biraj (1) from Khukuri took  wickets.

Laligurans Ganesh Bikram DC was undoubtly was the man of the match for his 67 runs and 3 wickets.

Nepalese khukuri club experienced one of the most unfortunate moments in the event of the cricket tournament organized by the club in this past week. The intention to improve the quality and professionalism of the tournament has always been focal point of the club. There have been some decisions made by umpires that did create conflicts between teams which are unavoidable. However the club promises to keep its determination to run this tournament in a fair and professional way.

Teams/Players are requested to be a part of this tournament in the true spirit of the game.

Khukuri club Board also has concluded the verdict of the incident during match between “Sagarmatha & Khukuri on 27/12/2009).

1. The committee has decided to continue the Match between “Sagarmatha & Khukuri “from where it was ended. The match will be played next week at the same venue starting at 10.30am sharp. If any team decided not to turn up, the winning points will be given to the opponent team.

2. Khukuri club has decided to issue Sagarmatha Captain Rajendra Shrestha with a serious warning & penalized him with 1 match suspension. He will miss the match between “Sagarmatha Vs Biratnagar 11” on 24/01/10. Rajendra has been penalized by Khukuri Club board after he has violated the player’s code of conduct by using Foul language & showing aggressive behavior to the opponent team member.

The board has made it clear that such behavior in future by any player will lead to the suspension from Khukuri Tournament and the team is penalized 2 competition points.

3. Khukuri club also condemns the decision taken by the khukuri cricket team to walk out of the game in such situation. In any case no teams should walk out of the game unless advised to do so by the umpires or the organizing body. Khukuri cricket team has been issued with the warning and any offence by the team in future would cost them competition points.

New Addition in the conditions:

15 All off-field players & their fans are to be remained outside the boundary line during the match. Under no circumstances players & their fans should walk in to the field during the play. “No ball” will be penalized for bowling team & loss of a ball for batting team.

16 Any disruption caused during the Game due to conflicts between players, players are reminded to stay within the boundary until Captains of both teams, umpires or the Khukuri club management have consulted & decides on the matter. Any team walking off the boundary without the direction of above will be penalized with the match points (2) and will be given to opponent team.

Amendment: term 10: Foul languages, swearing and conflicts between players and umpires are not tolerated and would be fined severely match suspension & warning will be given on the first instance. Any repetition of such behavior will be dealt with severely by the Khukuri club including suspension from the tournament. Team’s captains are reminded to consult the Umpires & team management for issue or conflict arises in the match.

Kuleshwore smashed Ghar Nepal by a massive 100 runs in the second match of Khukuri Tournament on 29/11/09. Kuleshwore elected to bat after winning the toss and all around performances from most of the players especially Surjan (35), Shekhar (25) , Purshottam (20) and Abhaya (28) gave the team a challenging total of 175 runs in 30 overs. Prabhin Adhikari from Ghar Nepal was the top wicket picker with 4 wickets while Suni Budhathoki and Dhirga Shah also shared 2 wickets each.

Ghar Nepal seemed challenging at the begining of their inning with openers Satish Poudel and Rajesh Bista they could not last with Kuleshwore attack. Balram Bista was the only player who showed some resistance with 19 runs and Ghar Nepal were all out for 75 runs.

Purshottam Bista was named Man of the Match for his 20 runs and 2 wickets.

Laligurans beat Sagarmatha by 61 runs today here in Hurstville cricket ground, Sagar superb 94 was catalyst earlier in the game to put Laligurans in commandable position. Winning the toss and elected to bat first, Laligurans cricket club were 208 for 8 on their allocated 30 over's. Superb 94 from Sagar earlier in the game put Laligurans in commanding position with the help of Arjen who score 26. Rajesh Panth took 3 wickets for Sagarmatha. It was never going to be easy task for Sagarmatha to score 209 in Sydney's hottest November in a present memory. Sagarmatha managed to score only 147 loosing all there 10 wickets. Niraj was only the player who managed highest Sagarmatha individual score of 29.

Sagar from Laligurans was named man of the Match for his superb 94 runs.

Toss Laligurans, who chose to bat

Series Khukuri Cup 09/10

Player of the match Nabin (Laligurans)

Umpires Kapil and Amit

Toss Ghar Nepal, who chose to bat

Series Khukuri Cup 09/10

Player of the match Suraj (Sagarmatha)

Umpires Amit and Sunil

Toss Biratnagar, who chose to bat

Series Khukuri Cup 09/10

Player of the match Bijay Ghimire (Khukuri)

Umpires Muktti Kumar Ban

Toss Kuleshwor, who chose to bat

Series Khukuri Cup 09/10

Player of the match Pursottam Bista (Kuleshwor)

Umpires Shyam and Amit

Toss Kuleshwor, who chose to bat

Series Khukuri Cup 09/10

Player of the match Sagar (Laligurans)

Umpires Amit and Sunil