Kirtipur, Nov. 2 -- Janakpur Bolts have registered their second win in the third season of the Nepal Premier League. The Season 1 champions defeated Pokhara Avengers nine runs in their third league-stage fixture on Sunday.

Having been invited to bat first, the Bolts put up a total of 147/7 on the board on the back of Trit Raj Das's 61 off 55.

"It is not easy to score runs on this pitch," Das said after bagging the player of the match award. "The plan was to score in bad deliveries, and that is what I did."

Abhisekh Tiwari (24 off 10), Moeen Ali (21 off 16) and Jimmy Neesham (11 off 11) were the only other Janakpur batters to score in double figures.

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