2015 SPA Cup

2015 SPA Cup
Dates	30 January – 7 February 2015
Administrator(s)	Sudur Pashchimanchal Academy
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Knockout
Host(s)	SPA
Champions	New Horizon College (1st title)
Participants	16
Matches	15
Player of the series	Saurav Khanal (New Horizon)
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The 2015 SPA Cup was the fourth season of the Nepalese college-level SPA Cup for cricket. The event was organised by the Sudur Pashchimanchal Academy. It was held from 30 January to 7 February 2015 in Dhangadhi.^[1] New Horizon College won the tournament by defeating Sunshine College by 7 runs in the final.^[2]^[3] Game was played at Dhangadhi cricket ground.

Tournament awards and prize money[edit]

The following players and teams were awarded the tournament awards and prize money.^[4]

Winners: New Horizon College - Rs 500,000
Runners-up: Sunshine HSS - Rs 200,000
Player-of-the-series: Saurav Khanal (New Horizon) - Rs 50,000
Best Batsman: Amit Shrestha (Sunrise HSS) - Rs 25,000
Best Bowler: Rahul Vishwakarma (Pentagon) - Rs 25,000
Best Fielder: Binod Lama (Durga Laxmi Multiple) - Rs 25,000
Best Foreign Player: Mayank Yadav (Sunshine HSS) - Rs 25,000
Emerging Player: Bipin Rawal (Kailali Multiple) - Cricket Kit and Cycle
Every man-of-the-match - Rs 5,000

Teams[edit]

SPA, Kailali (Hosts)
Durga Laxmi Multiple Campus, Kailali
Farwest University, Kanchanpur
GoldenGate International College, Kathmandu
Holyland Higher Secondary School, Nepalgunj
Jagannath Higher Secondary School, Baitadi
Kailali Multiple Campus, Kailali
Mahendra Namuna HS School, Dadeldhura
Merryland College, Biratnagar
New Horizon College, Butwal
Pentagon International College, Kathmandu
Sunrise Higher Secondary School, Kanchanpur
Sunshine College, Bhairahawa
Tikapur Multiple Campus, Kailali
Tripura Sundari Campus, Achham
Xavier International College, Kathmandu

Squad[edit]

SPA	Durga Laxmi Multiple	Farwest	GoldenGate	Holyland HSS
Arjun Adhikari Dipendra Airee Pradeep Airee Gihan Herath Bhuwan Karki Subash Khakurel Subendu Pandey Alpes Ramjani Dipendra Thapa Bikram Thagunna Sharad Vesawkar	Prashant Bist Milan Dhami Bhuwan KC Gyanendra Kunwar Binod Lama Sanjay Pant Sankata Prasad Raju Rijal Pankaj Shukla Rajvir Singh Puran Thapa	Ashok Bhatta Gajendra Chand Niraj Chand Rajendra Chand Yuddha Bikram Chand Pappu Mal Dipak Malla Nawaratan Saini Mahesh Shah Kiran Thagunna Anil Thapa	Prithu Baskota (c) Dipendra Chaudhary Akash Gupta Paresh Lohani Sushil Kandel Subash Pradhan Faizlur Rehman Aarif Sheikh Rom Shrestha Sanjay Shrestha Rupesh Shrivastav Kshitiz Singh Rahul Singh	Amar Singh Rautela (c) Hasan Akhtar Avinash Bohara Akash Bista Bijay Chaudhary Prabin Giri Inamuddin Halwai Nizamuddin Halwai Ajay Sahani Prajjwal Shahi Siddhant Raj Shahi Anupam Singh Praneet Thapa Avinash Vohra Abhishek Yadav

Jagannath HSS	Kailali Multiple	Mahendra Namuna	Merryland	New Horizon
Kamal Airee Prem Singh Budal Ashok Chand Dipendra Chand Rabindra Chand Surendra Chand Yogendra Karki Basant Khatri Prashant Marku Navin Thagunna Kishor Waghella	Ashish Bam Sagar Bhandari Prakash Bhatt Lalit Bom Roman Bom Kiran Chand Shankar Karki Gyanendra Kshetri Kamal Raj Joshi Bipin Rawal Ramesh Shamant	Irshad Ahmed Santosh Bhatta Dilip Nath Dikshanshu Negi Roshan Nepali Nirmal Roka Dipesh Shrestha Bikram Sob Prem Tamang Bikram Thalal	Sadab Ahkhtar Shivam Chauhan Ramnaresh Giri Vivek Jha Kumar Kartike Siddhant Lohani Suraj Patel Ajay Rajbanshi Hari Shankar Shah Manjeet Shrestha Manoj Sod	Saurav Khanal (c) Rupesh Bastola Susan Bhari Shakti Gauchan Sompal Kami Prakash KC Rahul Prajapati Nurdhoj Sen Devendra Somare Sandip Sunar Anil Thapa Nirmal Thapa

Pentagon International	Sunrise HSS	Sunshine	Tikapur Multiple	Xavier International
Mehboob Alam Binod Bhandari Naresh Budhayer Praveen Joshi Karan KC Anil Mandal Nishal Pandey Rajesh Pulami Sagar Pun Chandra Sawad Puspa Thapa Rahul Vishwakarma	Dinesh Agri Hasim Ansari Lalit Bhandari Dhan Bahadur Chand Akhil Chaudhary Sunil Dhamala Avinash Karn Bhim Sarki Rahul Dev Sharma Amit Shrestha Prakash Thapa	Saban Ali Nischal Chaudhary Shawaj Alam Khan Sohail Khan Tariq Anwar Khan Shankar Rana Sabin Shakya Anurag Sharma Subodh Srivastav Bijay Sunar Anish Thapa Antim Thapa Man Bahadur Thapa Dipendra Yadav Mayank Yadav	Biplove Bist Hikmat Khadka Amar Rawal Chandra Rimal Mahesh Shahi Sudip Shahi Rajan Sherchan Devendra Tamata Manoj Thakulla Subash Singh Thakuri Siddha Tiruwa	Alson Basnet Sabin Giri Mukesh Kalel Suyog Kunwar Ashesh Magar Ashesh Mainali Bimal Mainali Hemant Rawal Abhishek Shahi Amrit Thapa Roshan Yadav

Fixtures[edit]

All times are Nepal Standard Time (UTC+05:45)

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Final

30 January

Mahendra Namuna

124

3 February

Pentagon College

126/5

Pentagon College

193/5

31 January

Sunrise HSS

177/5

Sunrise HSS

245/1

6 February

Xavier International

78

Pentagon College

111

31 January

New Horizon

155

New Horizon

194/6

4 February

Kailali Multiple

56

New Horizon

79/3

1 February

Merryland College

76

Merryland College

159

7 February

Durga Laxmi

137/9

New Horizon

171/6

1 February

Sunshine College

164

Holyland HSS

148/8

4 February

Tikapur Multiple

80

Holyland HSS

113/3

2 February

GoldenGate

109/9

GoldenGate

Walkover

6 February

Tripura Sundari

Holyland HSS

93

2 February

Sunshine College

167/7

Sunshine College

173/7

5 February

Farwest University

162/8

Sunshine College

243/3

3 February

SPA

239/6

SPA

152/4

Jagannath HSS

106/8

Round of 16[edit]

1st match
30 January 2015
Scorecard

Mahendra Namuna 124 (18.5 overs)	v	Pentagon College 126/5 (14.3 overs)
Roshan Nepali 44 (28) Chandra Sawad 3/24 (4.0 overs)		Binod Bhandari 53 (31) Santosh Bhatta 1/11 (2.0 overs)

Pentagon won by 5 wickets
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Binod Bhandari (Pentagon)

Mahendra Namuna won the toss and chose to bat

2nd match
31 January 2015
Scorecard

Sunrise HSS 245/1 (20.0 overs)	v	Xavier International 78 (19.2 overs)
Sunil Dhamala 127* (68) Amrit Thapa 1/28 (3.0 overs)		Ashesh Mainali 35* (48) Avinash Karn 4/4 (4.0 overs)

Sunrise HSS won by 167 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Sunil Dhamala (Sunirse HSS)

Xavier International won the toss and chose to field

3rd match
31 January 2015
Scorecard

New Horizon 194/6 (20.0 overs)	v	Kailali Multiple 56 (14.2 overs)
Prakash KC 62* (27) Sagar Bhandari 2/24 (4.0 overs)		Bipin Rawal 21 (20) Rahul Prajapati 5/6 (4.0 overs)

New Horizon won by 137 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Rahul Prajapati (New Horizon)

New Horizon won the toss and chose to bat

4th match
1 February 2015
Scorecard

Merryland College 159 (19.2 overs)	v	Durga Laxmi 137/9 (20.0 overs)
Shivam Chauhan 51 (38) Sanjay Pant 4/13 (3.2 overs)		Rajvir Singh 58 (38) Manjeet Shrestha 2/17 (2.0 overs)

Merryland won by 22 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Shivam Chauhan (Merryland)

Merryland won the toss and chose to bat

5th match
1 February 2015
Scorecard

Holyland HSS 148/8 (20.0 overs)	v	Tikapur Multiple 80 (16.0 overs)
Hasan Akhtar 47 (34) Subash Thakuri 4/23 (4.0 overs)		Mahesh Shahi 30 (29) Hasan Akhtar 4/16 (4.0 overs)

Holyland HSS won by 68 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Hasan Akhtar (Holyland HSS)

Holyland HSS won the toss and chose to bat

6th match
2 February 2015
Report

GoldenGate	v	Tripura Sundari

No result

GoldenGate are through to quarter-finals by walkover due to unavailability of Tripura Sundari Campus team.

7th match
2 February 2015
Scorecard

Sunshine College 173/7 (20.0 overs)	v	Farwest University 162/8 (20.0 overs)
Mayank Yadav 45 (35) Mahesh Shah 3/31 (4.0 overs)		Dipak Malla 38 (49) Dipendra Yadav 2/21 (4.0 overs)

Sunshine won by 11 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Mayank Yadav (Sunshine)

Sunshine won the toss and chose to bat

8th match
3 February 2015
Scorecard

SPA 152/4 (16.0 overs)	v	Jagannath HSS 106/8 (16.0 overs)
Subash Khakurel 68* (49) Basant Khatri 1/7 (1.0 overs)		Dipendra Chand 29 (29) Sharad Vesawkar 4/29 (3.0 overs)

SPA won by 46 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Sharad Vesawkar (SPA)

SPA won the toss and chose to bat

Quarter-finals[edit]

1st quarter-final
3 February 2015
Scorecard

Pentagon College 193/5 (20.0 overs)	v	Sunrise HSS 177/5 (20.0 overs)
Rajesh Pulami 68 (28) Sunil Dhamala 1/10 (3.0 overs)		Amit Shrestha 85* (61) Mehboob Alam 2/26 (4.0 overs)

Pentagon won by 16 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Rajesh Pulami (Pentagon)

Sunrise HSS won the toss and chose to field

2nd quarter-final
4 February 2015
Scorecard

Merryland 76 (16.1 overs)	v	New Horizon 79/3 (9.4 overs)
Siddhant Lohani 26 (21) Saurav Khanal 3/14 (4.0 overs)		Nirmal Thapa 22* (18) Kumar Kartike 2/18 (3.4 overs)

New Horizon won by 7 wickets
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Saurav Khanal (New Horizon)

Merryland won the toss and chose to bat

3rd quarter-final
4 February 2015
Scorecard

GoldenGate 109/9 (20.0 overs)	v	Holyland HSS 113/3 (18.0 overs)
Faizlur Rahman 23 (24) Avinash Bohra 2/16 (4.0 overs)		Anupan Singh 61* (52) Prithu Baskota 1/15 (3.0 overs)

Holyland won by 7 wickets
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Anupam Singh (Holyland)

GoldenGate won the toss and chose to bat

4th quarter-final
5 February 2015
Scorecard

SPA 239/6 (20.0 overs)	v	Sunshine College 243/3 (19.1 overs)
Subash Khakurel 77 (48) Shankar Rana 2/44 (3.0 overs)		Subodh Srivastav 87 (42) Bikram Thagunna 1/22 (3.0 overs)

Sunshine won by 7 wickets
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Mayank Yadav (Sunshine)

Sunshine won the toss and chose to field

Semi-finals[edit]

1st semi-final
6 February 2015
Scorecard

New Horizon 155 (19.5 overs)	v	Pentagon College 111 (16.1 overs)
Nurdhoj Sen 33 (29) Sagar Pun 3/39 (4.0 overs)		Sagar Pun 40 (16) Shakti Gauchan 3/11 (3.0 overs)

New Horizon won by 44 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Shakti Gauchan (New Horizon)

Pentagon won the toss and chose to field

2nd semi-final
6 February 2015
Scorecard

Sunshine College 167/7 (20.0 overs)	v	Holyland HSS 93 (19.2 overs)
Shankar Rana 42 (34) Akash Bista 2/32 (4.0 overs)		Siddhant Shahi 28 (23) Mayank Yadav 4/29 (4.0 overs)

Sunshine won by 74 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Mayank Yadav (Sunshine)

Holyland won the toss and chose to field

Final[edit]

Final
7 February 2015
Scorecard

New Horizon 171/6 (20.0 overs)	v	Sunshine College 164 (19.5 overs)
Sompal Kami 40 (29) Dipendra Yadav 2/35 (4.0 overs)		Subodh Srivastav 46 (21) Shakti Gauchan 3/30 (4.0 overs)

New Horizon won by 7 runs
Seti Zone Police Ground, Dhangadhi
Player of the match: Suarav Khanal (New Horizon)

New Horizon won the toss and chose to bat

References[edit]

^ "SPA Cup to begin from January 30". Cricketing Nepal. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
^ "Scorecard of Sunshine College (Bhairahawa) V New Horizon College (Butwal), SPA Cup 2015". Cricketlok. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
^ "SPA Cup Final: New Horizon SPA Cup Champions". Cricketlok. Archived from the original on 2015-02-07. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
^ "New Horizon hold nerves to win SPA Cup". Cricketing Nepal. Retrieved 7 February 2015.

[SPA_Cup_to_begin_from_January_30-1] "SPA Cup to begin from January 30". Cricketing Nepal. Retrieved 1 February 2015.

[Scorecard_of_Sunshine_College_(Bhairahawa)_V_New_Horizon_College_(Butwal),_SPA_Cup_2015-2] "Scorecard of Sunshine College (Bhairahawa) V New Horizon College (Butwal), SPA Cup 2015". Cricketlok. Archived from the original on 7 February 2015. Retrieved 7 February 2015.

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[New_Horizon_hold_nerves_to_win_SPA_Cup-4] "New Horizon hold nerves to win SPA Cup". Cricketing Nepal. Retrieved 7 February 2015.

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