Red Team's win over the Blues at TU Cricket Ground for Philip Hughes Memorial Match

 The Red Team scored 163 in 31.3 overs while the blue team finished 162 with fall of all wickets. The Red team won by 1 Run. The match was divided in 31.3 overs for each innings for the total of 63 overs which was the number of run Philip Hughes made during his last match.

 It’s timely to wonder just what the late Phillip Hughes might have made of the uplifting events that came to pass at Kathmandu’s bucolic yet boisterous Kirtipur Tribhuvan University Stadium which today hosted a unique 63-over match in his honour.

True, Hughes had not set foot - let alone unfurled his remarkable batting talents - in a nation where cricket carries a fanatical public support that, thus far, remains inversely proportional to Nepal’s accomplishments on the game’s global stage.

 Nor is it known whether he harboured ambitions to one day join the throngs of international travellers who come to the hub of the Himalayas to find serenity further from sea level, if not closer to God.

Certainly, his passion for cattle raising would have been appreciated as much as his cricket ability in a seething, sprawling city where the animals can regularly be found standing stoic and sacred amid the maelstrom of Kathmandu’s choking traffic.

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