After adding 43 runs in the last 2 overs, Karnali set a target of 142 runs for Janakpur.

Karnali Yaks scored 43 runs in the last two overs to set a target of 142 runs for Janakpur Bolts in the Nepal Premier League (NPL).

In the second match of the day on Monday, Karnali, who won the toss and elected to bat against Janakpur Bolts, scored 141 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Arjun Gharti, who was run out with the last two balls remaining, scored 33 runs off 22 balls and Sompal Kami scored 29 runs not out off 13 balls.

Arjun had bowled 22 runs to Janakpur’s Harsh Thakar in the 19th over. He hit two fours and two sixes for that, taking two runs once. In the last over, captain Sompal bowled 21 runs to Jimmy Neesham. Sompal hit three fours and a six.

Arjun and Sompal had a 56-run partnership for the seventh wicket.Karnali had started slowly before that. They had scored 96 runs in 18 overs, losing 6 wickets.

Opener Dev Khanal could only score one run in five balls before being bowled by Lalit Rajbanshi on the first ball of the second over.His opening partner, Indian batsman Shikhar Dhawan, could not score more than 14 runs. He hit three fours in 14 balls before being bowled by Canadian bowler Harsh Thacker from Janakpur in the fifth over.

Then Chadwick Walton fell LBW to Mohammad Mohsin. West Indies wicketkeeper-batter Walton was shown the way to the pavilion in the seventh over by Pakistani-origin bowler Mohammad Mohsin, who plays cricket in the US.

In the next over, Jimmy Neesham also got Zeeshan Maqsood LBW for zero. Then Babar Hayat and Gulshan Jha tried to increase Karnali’s run.

But Babar was out after scoring only 12 runs in 14 overs after playing 25 balls. He could not hit any boundaries.

Gulshan Jha scored 36 runs. Before being bowled by Kishore Mahato in the 16th over, he hit 1 four and 3 sixes in 27 balls.

In the bowling, Mohsin from Janakpur took 2 wickets, while Kishore Mahato, Lalit Rajbanshi, Harsh Thakar and Jimmy Nishus took one wicket each.