Both teams have managed to secure only one win in the NPL, and the playoff journey of the team that loses today's match will be complicated.
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Lumbini Lions will field first in Tuesday's Nepal Premier League (NPL) cricket match. Lumbini captain Rohit Poudel won the toss and elected to bat against Kathmandu Gorkhas at the Tribhuvan University Cricket International Stadium, Kirtipur.
Lumbini, led by Rohit Poudel, is in fourth place with two points after winning one of its two matches. Lumbini defeated Chitwan Rhinos by 6 wickets in its first match. Lumbini was defeated by Karnali Yaks by 9 wickets in the second match.
Similarly, Kathmandu, led by Karan KC, has lost two of its three matches so far this season and won one. Kathmandu is in third place with two points.
Kathmandu defeated defending champion Janakpur Bolts by 5 wickets in the first match and lost to Sudurpaschim Royals by 29 runs in the second match. Biratnagar Kings defeated them by 5 wickets in the third match.
Kathmandu defeated Lumbini by 18 runs in the NPL. Today's match is considered important to keep both teams' chances of reaching the playoffs alive. Both teams are under pressure to win.
2 players have been changed in Kathmandu's team. Dipesh Kandel is playing in place of Prateek Shrestha and Milind Kumar is playing in place of Ricardo Vasconcelos.
Aakash Tripathi, Ben Charlesworth, Dipesh, Erasmus, John Simpson, Santosh Yadav, Adil Alam Ansari, Rashid Khan, Sahab Alam are playing for Kathmandu under the captaincy of Karan KC.
Lumbini is playing spinner Tilak Raj Bhandari in place of wicketkeeper Sameer Ali. Under the captaincy of Rohit Poudel, D'RC Short, Sandeep Jora, Sumit, Dilip Nath, Gulbadin Naib, Tilak Raj Bhandari, Sher Malla, Abhishek Gautam, Ruben Trumpelman, and Judge Schmidt are playing. Dilip Nath will keep wickets.
