{"id":438255,"date":"2026-11-02T22:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=438255"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T16:25:07","slug":"npl-2026-sudurpaschim-defeat-chitwan-by-5-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/11\/02\/438255.html","title":{"rendered":"NPL 2026: Sudurpaschim defeat Chitwan by 5 wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Sudurpachim Royals have defeated Chitwan Rhinos by 5 wickets in the match played between the two sides under the Nepal Premier League (NPL) Twenty20 tournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"609\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/Sudurpaschim-Royals-1024x609.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-438257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/Sudurpaschim-Royals-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/Sudurpaschim-Royals-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/Sudurpaschim-Royals-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/11\/Sudurpaschim-Royals.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo Courtesy: Sudurpaschim Royals\/Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the match played earlier today at the TU International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur, Sudurpaschim surpassed the victory target of 130 runs set by Chitwan in 16.4 overs at the loss of 5 wickets. Player-of-the-match Brandon McMullen top-scored for the winning team with 43 runs off 21 balls, while Ishan Pandey and Aarif Sheikh contributed 25 and 20 runs, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sherfane Rutherford scored 21 runs in 15 balls to take his team to victory. For the bowling side, Ranjit Kumar took 3 wickets while Rijan Dhakal and Mausam Dhakal took 1 wicket each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Sudurpaschim won the toss and elected to bowl first and restricted Chitwan Rhinos to 129 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 6 wickets. For Chitwan, Ravi Bopara scored 49 runs off 40 balls, while Bibek Yadav (17), David Malan (16), Arjun Saud (15) and Sikandar Raja (15) were other notable contributors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the bowling side, Scot Kuggeleijn took 2 wickets while Hemant Dhami, Dipendra Singh Airee and Anil Kharel took 1 wicket each. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following today&#8217;s win, Sudurpaschim climbed to the third position in the points table with 4 points in 4 matches, while Chitwan are in the 5th position with 3 points in 3 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudurpaschim surpassed the victory target of 130 runs set by Chitwan in 16.4 overs at the loss of 5 wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":438257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,74],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-438255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438258,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438255\/revisions\/438258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438255"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=438255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}