Indo-Nepal Twenty20 Cricket: Madhes Pradesh and Kolkata to face each other for the title

Lucknow's target of 148 runs for victory was completed by Madhesh Pradesh losing eight wickets in 19.4 overs. Madhes needed 11 runs in the last over to win. Pradeep Paswan was run out on the first ball of the last over. Abhishek Tiwari could not score runs in the second ball. Tiwari hit two consecutive sixes in the third and fourth balls to give Madhes an important win.

Tiwari scored 23 runs in 14 unbeaten balls for Madhes. He hit two fours and two sixes. Similarly, Rohan Bick scored 83 runs in 50 balls. He hit 6 fours and 6 sixes. With his important innings, Madhes managed to defeat a strong team, Lucknow. Other batters of Madhes did not perform well.

For Lucknow, Prince Shahi took 16 runs in four overs and took five wickets but could not win the team. Mohammad Sarim and Karthik Yadav took 1 wicket each. Batting first, Lucknow scored 147 runs for the loss of eight wickets. For Lucknow, Sandeep Mittal scored 36 runs off 26 balls, Nikhil Rao scored 23 runs off 22 balls.

Bhulan Sahni took three wickets for Madhes at the cost of 15 runs in four overs. Vishal Patel and Abhishek Tiwari took one wicket each. Madhesh's Rohan, who played an important innings in the match, was declared the player of the match. Madhes, who lost to Lucknow in the league stage, reached the semi-finals by finishing fourth. Lucknow was at the top and made it to the semi-finals.

Similarly, in the second semi-final match on Friday, another Indian team, Talatala Institute Kolkata, defeated Sudurpaschim Pradesh by 7 wickets and confirmed the clash with Madhes for the title. The target of 145 runs given by Sudurpaschim, Kolkata won by scoring 150 runs losing 3 wickets in 15.3 overs.

Vikas Chaudhary played an explosive innings of 71 runs to give Kolkata an easy win. He scored 71 runs in 42 balls with the help of five sixes and six fours. Raman Kadayan scored 60 runs off 37 balls with three sixes and seven fours. Kunal Nagar scored 13 runs in 6 balls. For Sudurpaschim, Naren Saud took two wickets for 37 runs in four overs. Deepak Bohora took one wicket after spending 38 runs in four overs.

Sudurpaschim Pradesh, who batted first, were bowled out for 144 runs. Khadak Bohora scored the highest 58 runs for Sudurpaschim. He hit 1 six and 6 fours in 43 balls. Basant Karki scored 34 runs in 19 balls, Deepak Bohora scored 15 runs in 13 balls.

Kolkata's Sandeep Gupta took an important four wickets at the cost of 16 runs in three overs to bowl Madhes out. Saurabh Yadav took three wickets at the cost of 21 runs in four overs. Abhishek Singh, Prashant and Milan Yadav took one wicket each. Kolkata's Vikas Chaudhary was declared the player of the match in the

match. In the league stage, Sudurpaschim Pradesh defeated Kolkata and reached the second place in the competition and reached the semi-finals. The final match of

competition will be held on Saturday.