Kathmandu Gorkhas Vs Lumbini Lions Highlights, Nepal Premier League 2025: Karan KC Powers KAG To 22-Run Win Over LUL

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Lumbini Lions Squad: Sundeep Jora, D Arcy Short, Rohit Paudel(c), Dilip Nath(w), Gulbadin Naib, Sumit Maharjan, JJ Smit, Ruben Trumpelmann, Sameer Ali Musalman, Sher Malla, Abhishesh Gautam, Aadil Khan, Durgesh Gupta, Tilak Bhandari, Thomas Draca, Bishal Patel, Dinesh Adhikari

Kathmandu Gorkhas Squad: Aakash Tripathi, Ben Charlesworth(w), Ricardo Vasconcelos, Pratik Shrestha, Gerhard Erasmus, Santosh Yadav, Mohammad Aadil Alam, John Simpson, Rashid Khan, Karan KC(c), Shahab Alam, Bhim Sharki, Uttam Thapa Magar, Sunny Patel, Dipesh Prasad Kandel, Krish Karki, Tul Bahadur Thapa, Heinrich Klaasen, Milind Kumar

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The toss news is out. Lumbini Lions have won the toss against Kathmandu Gorkhas and have elected to field first. It has been trend in this year's edition of Nepal Premier League, where teams have preferred to chase down targets.

Kathmandu Gorkhas: Aakash Tripathi, Ben Charlesworth(WK), Dipesh Prasad Kandel, Milind Kumar, Gerhard Erasmus, Santosh Yadav, Mohammad Aadil Alam, John Simpson, Rashid Khan, Karan KC (C), Shahab Alam

Lumbini Lions: Sundeep Jora, D Arcy Short, Rohit Paudel(c), Dilip Nath(w), Sher Malla, Abhishesh Gautam, Tilak Bhandari, Sumit Maharajan, Gulbadin Naib, Ruben Trumpelmann, JJ Smit

KAG have not got the they would have desired as they lost the wicket of the dangerous Ben Charlesworth for a duck. Sher Malla is the bowled who castled Charlesworth and got his team an important breakthrough.

KAG are off to a decent start in terms of runs but the last wicket of Rashid Khan (14) would have hurt them. Both Rashid and Akash were looking good on the crease but before Trumpelmann got the wicket of Rashid.

LUL have been tight with their bowling so far and haven't let the run-rate of KAG's innings go above even 6 runs per over. Akash Tripathi (32) was the last batter to get out who was dismissed by Sher Malla. KAG need to forge a partnership along at a brisk pace to reach at a competitive 1st innings score.

KAG's batting crisis deepens as they lose half their in just 14 overs. Sher Malla and skipper Rohit Paudel gets 2 wickets each to break the back of the middle order of KAG.

Courtesy to a late blitz by skipper Karan KC, KAG have managed to breach the 150 mark and ended their innings at 157. It is a sensational comeback from the Gorkhas as their were loitering at 83/5 in 14 over but they managed to blaze 74 runs in the last 6 overs. Karan KC smashed 34 runs in just 11 balls with 4 sixes and a boundary.

LUL have gotten a dream start in the first over while chasing the target of 158 runs. Dangerous Aussie Southpaw Darcie Short took on skipper Karan KC in the 1st over with a six and boundary and LUL's score raced to 18 after the first over.

Lumbini Lions lost three wickets in the powerplay. Despite a blazing start by D'Arcy Short, KAG pulled things back with the help of a brilliant spell of Milind Kumar who picked up 2 wickets including that of D'Arcy Short.

KAG has tightened their grip over the match by dismissing 4 batters of LUL for just 68 runs in the mid half of the innings. LUL has a steep chase of 90 runs at their hands in 10 overs with 6 wickets remaining.

KAG are losing wickets in cluster and doing it at the wrong time. Rashid Khan dismisses Trumpelmann and with this KAG lose their 7th wicket. They still need 74 runs to win 42 balls.

Lumbini Lions are staring at a defeat against Kathmandu Gorkhas as they have lost 8 wickets and still need 53 runs in 24 balls. Dilip Nath (25) was the last man to get dismissed.

That's it, the last wicket of LUL falls in the form of Abhishek Gautam. KAG pips LUL by 22 runs in match 11 of the Nepal Premier League 2025. Captain Karan KC proved out to be the star of the match who powered his team to an above par 157 runs with his blistering 37 runs off 11 balls and also took a crucial wicket of Abhishek Gautam.