{"id":36460,"date":"2025-11-28T20:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=36460"},"modified":"2025-11-28T20:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:12:12","slug":"npl-2025-biratnagar-defeats-karnali-by-3-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/npl-2025-biratnagar-defeats-karnali-by-3-wickets\/","title":{"rendered":"NPL 2025: Biratnagar defeats Karnali by 3 wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Nov 28: Biratnagar Kings have defeated Karnali Yaks by 3 wickets in the day-night match played under the Nepal Premier League (NPL) at TU International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur today.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a victory target of 161 runs set by Karnali, Biratnagar surpassed the target with 1 ball remaining and three wickets to spare. Player-of-the-match Basir Ahamad batted till the end to score 62 runs in 43 balls to win the game for his team.<\/p>\n<p>Narayan Joshi contributed 25 runs in 16 balls followed by Sahil Patel and Sam Heazlett who scored 19 and 16 runs respectively. Biratnagar scored 25 runs as extras including 9 byes, 5 wides and 6 leg byes and 1 noball. For the bowling side, Sompal Kami and Gulshan Jha took 2 wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, batting first after winning the toss, Karnali scored 160 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 20 overs. Opener Priyank Panchal scored 63 in 47 balls while William Bosisto scored 48 runs, and Gulshan Jha contributed 20 runs in 10 balls.<\/p>\n<p>For Biratnagar, captain Sandeep Lamichhane and Marchant de Lange took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>With this win, Biratnagar Kings have collected 8 points in 5 matches and remain second in the points table below Sudurpaschim Royals. Janakpur Bolts languish in the end of the table with three losses in three matches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov 28: Biratnagar Kings have defeated Karnali Yaks by 3 wickets in the day-night match played under the Nepal Premier League (NPL) at TU International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur today. Chasing a victory target of 161 runs set by Karnali, Biratnagar surpassed the target with 1 ball remaining and three wickets to spare. Player-of-the-match Basir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36460","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\/36460"}],"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=36460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36463,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36460\/revisions\/36463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}