{"id":52112,"date":"2024-12-02T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=52112"},"modified":"2024-12-02T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:00:24","slug":"npl-chitwan-rhinos-beats-kathmandu-gurkhas-by-five-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2024\/12\/02\/npl-chitwan-rhinos-beats-kathmandu-gurkhas-by-five-wickets\/","title":{"rendered":"NPL: Chitwan Rhinos beats Kathmandu Gurkhas by five wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Chitwan Rhinos registered a commanding five-wicket win against Kathmandu Gurkhas in the second match of the Nepal Premier League (NPL) at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur, on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rhinos achieved a medium target of 112 runs in just 17.1 overs with 17 balls remaining. To register the first win Rhinos&#8217;&nbsp;Santosh Karki scored 28 runs, Luc Benkenstein scored 22 runs, and Captain Kushal Malla, Sharad Vesawkar&nbsp;and Ravi Bopara scored 11 runs each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gurkha&#8217;s bawler Shahab Alam took three wickets by giving 20 runs in four overs but couldn&#8217;t stop his team from losing\u00a0with Rhinos. Similarly, Gerhard Erasmus and Dan Douthwaite each took a single wicket.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, batting first Kathmandu Gurkhas scored 111 runs in the stipulated 20 overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To minimize Gurkhas in just 111 runs Rhinos&#8217;s bawler Sohail Tanvir alone took five wickets by giving 21 runs in four overs spell.\u00a0Similarly, Rijan Dhakal, Kushal Malla, Amar Routela and Luc Benkenstein took one wicket each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gurkhas&#8217;s Sumit Maharjan scored the highest 29 runs, Michael Levitt scored 25 runs, Dan Douthwaite scored 19 runs and&nbsp;Shankar Rana scored 16 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Chitwan Rhinos registered a commanding five-wicket win against Kathmandu Gurkhas in the second match of the Nepal Premier League (NPL) at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur, on Monday. Rhinos achieved a medium target of 112 runs in just 17.1 overs with 17 balls remaining. To register the first win Rhinos&#8217;&nbsp;Santosh Karki scored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Untitled-design-20-1733120883.png?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-dyw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52114,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52112\/revisions\/52114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}