Kathmandu Gurkhaz scored only 52 runs in the first 10 overs. 4 major wickets had also been lost. The target was 150 runs. That is, Gurkhaz needed 98 runs off 60 balls to get their first win in Nepal Premier League (NPL) cricket.

Gerard Erasmus and Sumit Maharjan were at the crease. Sumit's hands were not open yet, with 3 overs remaining he was playing for 18 runs off 28 balls. Sumit along with captain Karan KC led Gurkhaz to a sensational 3-wicket win against Karnali Yaks at the Trivi Cricket Ground in Kirtipur on Wednesday. This was Gurkhaj's first victory. Karnali's second loss in a row. 

At the time when the score was tied, Sumit hit a boundary and won the game with 153 runs in 3 balls. Gurkhaz scored 103 runs in the last 57 balls. Player of the match He scored an unbeaten 40 off 37 balls with 3 fours and 1 six. Karan played 10 balls and scored 28 runs with 2 fours and a six. When the team needed 7 runs to win, Karan was beautifully caught out by Dev Khanal on the boundary line in the last ball of the 19th over. 

Gurkhaz opener Shankar Rana was run out after scoring 6 runs in 7 balls. The team was under pressure after Stephen Eskinazi was dismissed for 3, Bhim Sarki for 9 runs. Michael Levitt scored 22 runs with 2 fours and 1 six off 19 balls.

Namibian captain Erasmus, who played wisely, scored 38 runs off 28 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes. Nandan Yadav, Bipin Sharma, Gulshan Jha and Jisan Maksud took 1 wicket each from Karnali along with captain Sompal Kami.

Earlier, after former Indian star Shikhar Dhawan scored 72 runs off 51 balls, Karnali scored 149 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. Dhawan hit 4 fours and 5 sixes. He faced only 5 balls in the first 5 overs and completed his half-century in 42 balls by hitting a six and a four off Karan's consecutive deliveries in the 18th over. Dhawan hit Nathan Souter for consecutive sixes in the first two balls of the 19th over.

Maksud remained unbeaten with Dhawan scoring 4 runs in 11 balls with 1 boundary. The two shared an unbeaten partnership of 65 runs off 33 balls for the sixth wicket. Karan dismissed Dev Khanal LBW for a wicket in the first over of the match. Chadwick Walton scored 21 runs off 15 balls with 5 fours. He was brought back to the pavilion by Karan with a brilliant catch off Erasmus.

Babar Hayat scored 13 runs with 1 six off 18 balls and was bowled by Dipesh Kandel. Gulshan, who hit a boundary on the first ball he faced, scored 12 runs off 19 balls and was stumped by Erasmus. Arjun Gharti was bowled by Nathan Souter for 4 runs. From Gurkhaz, Erasmus spent 29 runs in 4 overs, Karan took 19 in 3 overs, Deepesh took 7 in 1 over and Souter spent 32 runs in 4 overs and took 1 each.

Similarly, in the second match on Wednesday, Biratnagar Kings won their first win in NPL. Biratnagar defeated Lumbini Lions by 2 wickets in an exciting match on Wednesday. After losing the first two matches, Biratnagar got this success in the third match. 

Lumbini scored 191 runs by losing 7 wickets in scheduled 20 overs. After Lokesh Bam scored 71 runs in 47 balls, Biratnagar completed the target 1 ball ahead. Biratnagar needed 16 runs from the last over to win. Vivek Yadav bowled the first two balls wide. In the third ball, he dismissed Biratnagar captain Sandeep Lamichhane.

Chris Soule, who came next, could not score any runs in the first ball. But after hitting a six on the second ball he faced, he hit fours on the next two consecutive balls to give Biratnagar a comfortable victory. Sol scored an unbeaten 16 off 4 balls.

Vivek became very expensive. He scored 64 runs in 3.5 overs. Player of the match Lokesh hit 3 fours and 6 sixes. Ramon Simmonds dismissed Ismatullah Alam in the first over.

Another opener Martin Guptill scored 28 runs with 6 boundaries in 17 balls. Rajesh Pulami was dismissed for 4 runs and Nicholas Kirtan got out in the first ball but Lokesh added 77 runs in 40 balls for the fifth wicket with Basir Ahmed. Basir scored 40 runs off 23 balls with 4 fours. Pratish JC was dismissed for 6 runs. Deepak Bohra scored an unbeaten 9 runs off 8 balls. From Lumbini, Durgesh Gupta took 3 wickets, Simmonds and Saad Bin Zafar took 2 wickets each.

Lumbini captain Rohit Paudel scored the highest 46 runs. He hit 4 fours and 2 sixes off 29 balls. Opener Ashutosh Ghirohia hit 2 fours and 1 six in 13 balls and was run out after scoring 15 runs, while Alam bowled Arjun Saud who scored 17 runs in 19 balls with 3 fours.

Rohit shared 67 runs in 33 balls with Tom Moores for the third wicket. After hitting three consecutive sixes off Anil Kharel, Moors was run out for 30 off 17 balls. Four Lumbini batters were run out. In that, Sandeep Zora was 12 and Ben Cutting 6 runs.