Electing to bat first after winning the toss, Citizens Bank made 77/4 in the allotted five overs as man-of-the-series Bishal Bhattarai scored an unbeaten 48 runs off 17 deliveries. Bhattarai struck four sixes and four fours. Nabin Karki scored four runs. BR Launde, Sohan Patwal and Pankaj Singh claimed one wicket each for the Embassy team.[break]
Chasing the big target, the Embassy team could manage only 60/3. Vipin Tomar remained unbeaten on 29 off 15 while Pankaj Singh hit 21. Amit Khanal, Nabin Karki and Binay Gautam took one wicket each for Citizens.
The Embassy team had directly entered the final after its semifinal opponent and title favorite Pappu Construction was disqualified from the tournament earlier on Tuesday. NMB Bank, which lost to Pappu in the quarterfinal, had lodged a complaint on Monday claiming that Pappu had fielded ineligible players. Pappu was disqualified as it failed to submit documents to prove that all its players belonged to the company.
Citizens Bank had defeated Standard Chartered by five wickets in the other semifinal. Needing 55 runs to run, Citizens Bank reached 58 with five balls to spare as Bhattarai scored an unbeaten 32 runs. Earlier, Shitanshu Pandey scored the highest 16 runs for Standard Chartered and Subash Sharma added 12. Binay Gautam of Citizens Bank claimed two wickets.
Man-of-the-series Bhattarai also won the award for most sixes. Rabindra Chand of NMB Bank was declared the best batsman, Sumit Rauniyar best bowler and Abhay Rana of Century Bank best fielder, while the fair play team award went to Nagarik Media. Nabil Bank´s Laxman Charan Joshi, who has been participating in the tournament for the past 15 years, received the consistent player award.
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