{"id":128605,"date":"2026-11-12T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/?p=128605"},"modified":"2026-11-12T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T15:37:49","slug":"npl-defeats-karnali-to-reach-lumbini-playoffs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/11\/12\/128605\/","title":{"rendered":"NPL defeats Karnali to reach Lumbini playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lumbini defeats Karnali to reach Lumbini Playoffs <\/p>\n<p> Kathmandu. Lumbini Lions have become the first team to reach the playoffs of the third edition of the Nepal Premier League (NPL). Lumbini defeated Karnali Yaks by 4 wickets in the second match of the tournament to reach the playoffs with one match to go. With this win, Lumbini has reached the top position with 9 points. This <\/p>\n<p>is Karnali&#8217;s fourth defeat. With this defeat, Karnali&#8217;s playoff chances have become difficult. <\/p>\n<p> Lumbini chased down the target of 106 runs set by Karnali. In 4 overs, Lumbini achieved the target of 16 runs. In 4 overs, they lost 6 wickets. D&#8217;Arcy Short top-scored with 46 runs while Dilip Nath scored 28 runs. Mark Watt took 4 wickets for Karnali.  Karnali, who elected to bat first after winning the toss, was all out for 105 runs at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur. Sompal Kami scored 28 runs and Hussain Talat scored 24 runs. Lumbini captain Sompal Kami, Abhishesh Gautam, Kishor Mahato and Darcy Short took 2 wickets each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lumbini defeats Karnali to reach Lumbini Playoffs Kathmandu. Lumbini Lions have become the first team to reach the playoffs of the third edition of the Nepal Premier League (NPL). Lumbini defeated Karnali Yaks by 4 wickets in the second match of the tournament to reach the playoffs with one match to go. With this win,<a href=\"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/en\/2026\/11\/12\/128605\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;NPL defeats Karnali to reach Lumbini playoffs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":128604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128605","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\/lumbini_869c7340.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128605","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=128605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128606,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128605\/revisions\/128606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media\/128604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthakhabar.com\/ak_api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}