Janakpur Bolts Vs Pokhara Avengers Highlights, Nepal Premier League: POA Pip JKB By 25 Runs To Register Season's 1st Win

Good afternoon and welcome to everyone joining us this Thursday. We are back with another Nepal Premier League live blog. Match 14 has Janakpur Bolts meeting Pokhara Avengers, and we will bring to you the build-up as well as live updates from the game.

The match is scheduled to begin at 3:45pm IST, with the toss at 3:15pm IST. The Janakpur Bolts vs Pokhara Avengers, Nepal Premier League 2025 clash will be telecast on Star Sports Select 2 SD and HD TV channels in India. It is being live streamed on the FanCode app and website in the country.

In Nepal, the game will be telecast for free on Kantipur Max TV. Live streaming will be available on the Dish Home Go app.

The news is Out! Pokhara Avengers have won the toss and have chosen to bat first in the 14th match of the Nepal Premier League 2025.

Janakpur Bolts: Shubh Kansakar, Aasif Sheikh(w), Anil Sah(c), Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Mayan Yadav, Rupesh Singh, Wayne Parnell, Maaz Sadaqat, Kishore Mahato, Lalit Rajbanshi

Pokhara Avengers: Dinesh Kharel, Adam Rossington(w), Kushal Bhurtel(c), Kiran Thagunna, James Neesham, Sumeet Verma, Trit Raj Das, Daniel Douthwaite, Bipin Khatri, Aakash Chand, Sagar Dhakal

The 14th match of NPL 2025 is underway and both the POA openers- Adam Rossington (3*) and Dinesh Kharel (3*) have got their team off to a cautious start in the 1st over by Lalit Rajbanshi.

Pokhara Avengers are off to a solid start courtesy of the openers Adam Rossington (23*) and Dinesh Kharel (18*). The run rate of 8 is very healthy and given that they haven't lost any wicket yet gives them the base to explode in the middle overs.

JKB have made a solid comeback in the game by picking up four wickets in quick succession after a decent start by POA openers. Sanjay Krishnamurthy was the wrecker-in-chief behind POA's collapse. Jimmy Neesham was the latest scalp of the left-arm orthodox.

After a mini-collapse post powerplay, POA will be relying on Trit Raj Das (8*) and Sumeet Verma (15*) to forge a partnership that could lay a platform for the remaining batter to unleash in the slog overs.

That's what the doctor ordered for POA, after a mini-collapse Trit Raj Das (19*) and Sumeet Verma (32*) got them back into the grove with a crucial partnership of 48 runs at a brisk pace.

POA sets the target of 156 runs for JKB to chase in 20 overs. Sumit Verma was their best batter scoring 41 runs off just 25 balls and played an instrumental role in getting POA to a score of 156 after a collapse post powerplay. Sumit Krishnamurthy picked up 3 scalps for JKB and was their best bowler.

POA are all over JKB, their bowlers have ripped apart JKB's batting line-up by taking six wickets in just 8 overs.

After a drastic start, JKB's Sanjay Krishnamurthi and Wayne Parnell are trying to stitch a small partnership together but they still have a huge task at their hands. They still need 99 runs in 10 overs and just have 4 wickets in hand.

POA have their one foot in the door now as JKB have lost their 8th wicket in the form of Lalit Rajbanshi. Neesham was the bowler who got Rajbanshi caught and took the 8th wicket.

Lalit Rajbanshi hits a boundary of the last ball but it's too little too late as POA wins the match by 25 runs. Bipin Khatri is the pick of the bowlers for POA who took 4 wickets for just 15 runs in his 4 overs. Wayne Parnell blazed some towering hits towards the end and scored a half-century but it wasn't enough.

We've come to an end of the match. It was wonderful to cover the match with you, we'll come back with another blog, until then, bye bye.