{"id":35573,"date":"2025-11-17T18:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=35573"},"modified":"2025-11-17T18:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T12:48:53","slug":"npl-2025-defending-champions-restricted-to-130-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/npl-2025-defending-champions-restricted-to-130-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"NPL 2025: Defending champions restricted to 130 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Nov 17: Defending champions Janakpur Bolts scored 130 in 20 overs in the inaugural match of the Nepal Premier League 2025, a franchise-based Twenty20 cricket tournament, that began in Kirtipur earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Put into bat after losing the toss against Kathmandu Gorkhas, Janakpur has put up a par score, thanks to a half century ( 54 in 41 balls) by Aasif Sheikh. Mayan Yadav (24 not out) and Lahiru Samarakoon (22) were the only two other batters who scored in double figures.<\/p>\n<p>For the bowling side, Milind Kumar took 3 wickets giving away only 15 runs in his full quota of 4 overs. Karan KC, Shahab Alam and Santosh Yadav took 1 wicket each.<br \/>\nThe match is currently being played at the TU International Cricket Ground under floodlights, a first of its kind for a cricket match in the country.<br \/>\nThe NPL 2025 runs until December 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov 17: Defending champions Janakpur Bolts scored 130 in 20 overs in the inaugural match of the Nepal Premier League 2025, a franchise-based Twenty20 cricket tournament, that began in Kirtipur earlier today. Put into bat after losing the toss against Kathmandu Gorkhas, Janakpur has put up a par score, thanks to a half century [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35573"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35575,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35573\/revisions\/35575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}