NPL: Pokhara makes a spectacular comeback, Karnali defeats Karnali by 63 runs<\/strong><\/p>\n Kathmandu. Pokhara Avengers made a spectacular comeback in the third edition of Nepal Premier League (NPL) underway in Kathmandu. In the first match played today, Pokhara defeated Karnali Yaks by 63 runs. This is Pokhara’s first win in five matches. Pokhara also got two points from this win. <\/p>\n Karnali has dropped to the seventh position after today’s defeat. Karnali has won only two out of five matches. Chasing a target of 218 runs, Karnali was all out for 154 runs in 18.3 overs. Pawan Sarraf scored 32 runs, Ariful Slam scored 24 runs and Deepak Dume scored 22 runs. Mahdi Hasan took 3 wickets for Pokhara, Dhananjay Lashan, Kushal Bhurtel and Bipin Khatri took 2 wickets each. Pokhara, who won the toss and opted to bat first at the Kirtipur ground, scored 217 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. This is the highest target of the tournament. Yuvraj Samra scored a century and Kushal Bhurtel scored a half-century. Samra scored 102 and Bhurtel scored 62 runs. There was a record partnership of 136 runs between these two batters. This is the highest partnership of the season. Samra’s century is also the first century of the ongoing season. Sompal Kami took 2 wickets and Mark Watt took 1 wicket for Karnali. In the second match of the day, Chitwan Rhinos will take on Kathmandu Gorkhas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NPL: Pokhara makes a spectacular comeback, Karnali defeats Karnali by 63 runs Kathmandu. Pokhara Avengers made a spectacular comeback in the third edition of Nepal Premier League (NPL) underway in Kathmandu. In the first match played today, Pokhara defeated Karnali Yaks by 63 runs. This is Pokhara’s first win in five matches. Pokhara also gotContinue reading “NPL 2018: Pokhara defeats Karnali by 63 runs”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":127305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127314","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_24393150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127314","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=127314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127315,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127314\/revisions\/127315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/127305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}