{"id":57539,"date":"2026-10-29T15:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57539"},"modified":"2026-10-29T15:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:13:45","slug":"janakpur-bolts-secure-first-win-with-eight-wicket-victory-over-kathmandu-gorkhas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/janakpur-bolts-secure-first-win-with-eight-wicket-victory-over-kathmandu-gorkhas\/","title":{"rendered":"Janakpur Bolts secure first win with eight-wicket victory over Kathmandu Gorkhas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, Oct 29:<\/strong> Janakpur Bolts registered their first victory in the third edition of the Nepal Premier League (NPL), defeating Kathmandu Gorkhas by eight wickets on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a modest target of 116 runs, Janakpur reached 117 for the loss of two wickets in 17.2 overs, securing their first win of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Moeen Ali led the chase with a half-century, scoring 58 runs off 51 balls, including three fours and three sixes. It was his maiden half-century in the NPL. Saif Hassan remained unbeaten on 40 off 39 balls, hitting three sixes and a four to guide Janakpur to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mayank Yadav contributed nine runs, while Trit Raj Das added five. For Kathmandu, Ripon Mondal claimed one wicket.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Kathmandu Gorkhas, who won the toss and elected to bat first at the TU International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur, were bowled out for 115 runs in 19.3 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Bhim Sharki was Kathmandu&#8217;s top scorer with 33 runs off 29 balls, including four boundaries. Rashid Khan scored 17, Smit Patel made 13, and Sumit Maharjan contributed 10 runs. The remaining batters failed to reach double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Yadav was the standout bowler for Janakpur, taking four wickets for 31 runs in his four overs. Saif Hassan claimed two wickets while conceding just 11 runs in four overs. Moeen Ali, Harmit Singh and Lalit Rajbanshi picked up one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, Janakpur opened their account with two points from two matches. Kathmandu Gorkhas, meanwhile, remain without a point after playing their first match of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Oct 29: Janakpur Bolts registered their first victory in the third edition of the Nepal Premier League (NPL), defeating Kathmandu Gorkhas by eight wickets on Thursday. Chasing a modest target of 116 runs, Janakpur reached 117 for the loss of two wickets in 17.2 overs, securing their first win of the tournament. Moeen Ali [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57539"}],"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=57539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57541,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57539\/revisions\/57541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}