On it’s first game, Kathmandu Goldens playing against CYC Attariya, won the toss and decided to field first. Led by team captain Gyanendra Malla, CYC openers could not give a fine start to their team. Sandeep Sunar stumbled against Sompal Kami losing his wicket on his fifth bowl adding four runs on the scoreboard. The big names Gyanendra Malla, Mehboob Alam could not perform well along with Dilip Nath who was also a part of Emerging Cup tour to Bangladesh. Yogendra Singh Karki being the first cricketer to score a half century of the tournament, built a much needed inning with 57 personal runs, which included seven boundaries and a six off 41 bowls. Gyanendra Kunwar added not out 34 runs on the board while it was surprising to see Pradeep Airee at late order who smashed 13 runs off 5 bowls. With two wickets for Sompal Kami and an each in the names of Manjeet, Santosh and Rohit, Goldens stopped CYC for 146/6 in 20 overs.

Chasing the target of 147 runs, Goldens’ inning was most devastating than Nepal Earthquake with only Sompal Kami and Santosh Bhatta managing to score double digits runs on their heroic innings. A surprise was the captain Basant Regmi coming to bat as a third number batsman who scored seven runs before returning back to the pavilion. On his another good inning, Sompal Kami took their innings till nineteenth over scoring 40 runs off 38 bowls along Bhuvan Karki scoring 31 runs off 23 bowls. Avinash Bohara took 4 wickets to take the Man of the Match award with only 11 runs off his 3.4 overs spell. Alongside, Binod Lama also took 3 wickets giving away 9 runs. The Goldens only managed to score 106 runs losing all their wickets in 18.4 overs to lose the match by 40 runs.

Match Result: CYC Attariya (146/6 at 20.0 ov) beat Kathmandu goldens (106/10 at 18.4) by 40 runs