3Star-studded Pentagon College advanced to the semi-finals, while hosts SPA confirmed their place in the last eight in the Hotel Devotee SPA Cup Cricket Tournament here on Tuesday.

1. Star-studded Pentagon enter semis, SPA win
3Star-studdedPentagonCollegeadvancedtothe semi-finals,while hostsSPA confirmedtheirplace in
the last eightinthe Hotel Devotee SPA CupCricketTournamenthere onTuesday.In the firstquarter-
final match,PentagonedgedpastSunrise College of Bhairahawaby16 runs, while inthe lastleague
match of the tournamentSPA defeatedJagannathCollegeby46 runs.Battingfirst,Pentagonscored193-
5 in20 oversand restrictedSunrise to177-5 in 20 overs.OpenersNareshBudhayer(11) and Sagar Pun
(36 off 31 balls) added40 runsfor the firstwicket.Afterthe fall of these twowickets,Anil Mandal (five)
and MehaboobAlam(five)alsoreturnedtothe paviliontoleave Pentagonat87-4 in11 overs.Rajesh
Pulami andBinodBhandari thenshareda 103-run partnershipforthe fifthwickettotake the teamto a
strongposition.Pulami struckfive foursandsix sixesinhisfiery68off 28 balls,while Bhandari struck
fourboundariesandthree sixesinhisunbeaten56off just 37 balls.AvinashKarn,AkhilChaudhary,Sunil
Dhamalaand DineshGiri grabbeda wicketeachforSunshine.Sunshine hadadisastrousstartto the run
chase as theylostrecord holderopeningbatsmanSunilDhamala(15) in the secondover.AmitShrestha
keptthe chase withhisunbeaten85 off 61 ballswithsix foursandsevensixes.Buthe didnotget
supportfromothersas wicketsfell atregularinterval.HasimAnsari scored21off 13 ballswithtwofours
and a six,while BhimSarki wasunbeatenon19 off 10 balls.MehboobAlamgrabbedtwowickets,while
Karan KC,Chandra Saudand Rahul BK tooka wicketeachforSunshine.Earlier,SPA scored152-4 in the
16-over-a-side matchandrestrictedJagannathfor102-8. SubashKhakurel scoredanunbeaten68 off 49
ballsthatincludedfive foursandfoursixes.SubendhuPandeycontributed30off 19 balls,whileSharad
Vesawakarscored25 off 21. PrashantMarku, KishorWagle,Kamal Airee andBasantKhatri grabbeda
wicketeachforJagannath.Inreply,openerDipendraChandwasthe highestscorerwithrun-a-ball 29
that includedthree foursandasix,while RabindraChand(18),SurendraChand(15) and KishorWagle
(13) were the otherJagannathbatsmenwhoscoredindouble figures.Man-of-the-matchVesawakar
grabbed4-29 inhisthree-overspell,whileDipendraAiree,BikramThagunna,BhuwanKarki andAlpes
Ramjani tooka wicketeachfor SPA.NewHorizonof Butwal will take onMerylandof Biratnagar,while
Holylandof Nepalgunj willplayagainstGoldenGate of KathmanduinWednesday’squarter-finals.