Kathmandu. Chitwan Rhinos defeated Pokhara Avengers by 30 runs in the second match of the ongoing Nepal Premier League (NPL) today. <\/p>\n
Chasing a target of 152 runs, Pokhara was limited to 121 runs in 19 overs. Arjun Kumal top-scored with 45 runs but it was not enough to win. Rijan Dhakal took 4 wickets and Kamal Singh Airee took 3 wickets for Chitwan. Chitwan, who were invited to bat first after losing the toss, made 151 in 20 overs at the loss of 6 wickets.<\/p>\n
Pokhara won the toss and elected to bowl. Skipper Sikandar Raja scored 37 runs, Ravi Bopara scored 35 runs and Arjun Saud scored 11 runs. <\/p>\n
Skipper Chamika Karunatne, Kushal Bhurtel and Bipin Khatri took 2 wickets each. Pokhara’s playoff chances are slim after suffering their fourth consecutive defeat. Pokhara will have to rely on the results of other teams even if they win the remaining 3 matches. Chitwan is in the third position with five points from four matches. In the first match of the day, Sudurpaschim Royals defeated Karnali Yaks by 39 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kathmandu. Chitwan Rhinos defeated Pokhara Avengers by 30 runs in the second match of the ongoing Nepal Premier League (NPL) today. Chasing a target of 152 runs, Pokhara was limited to 121 runs in 19 overs. Arjun Kumal top-scored with 45 runs but it was not enough to win. Rijan Dhakal took 4 wickets andContinue reading “NPL 2018: Pokhara’s fourth consecutive defeat”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":126125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-samachar-en"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/photo_b7a788bb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126136,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126135\/revisions\/126136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/126125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}