Top Run-Scorers Batsman in NPL 2024

From established stars to emerging talents, NPL 2024 player rankings will highlight the best performers across various metrics. Stay updated with position changes as players make their mark in batting, bowling, and all-rounder categories, contributing to their team’s success.

In the dynamic landscape of the NPL, records are constantly. The NPL has played a major role in stratospheric heights stroke-making in cricket has touched today. Six-hitting has gone from a trick shot to a regular occurrence and the versatility in batting has gone through the roof over the past decade and a half, thanks largely to the world’s batters thrilling massive crowds in the NPL.

The seismic shift in the mindset of batters and the array of shots in their arsenal has fans in Nepal believing no team or individual score is ever insurmountable. Just the sheer number of boundaries behind the wicket, and batters playing reverse sweeps off pacers were sights unimaginable pre-NPL.

While the NPL batting numbers game often gets dominated by top-order batters, those in the middle and lower order seemingly impact the outcome the most. Hence, it is only fair a ranking boasts a collection of those who have achieved ultimate success in different positions.

On that note, let us rank the top five greatest NPL batters of all time and celebrate some of their incredible numbers and achievements.

Nepali and foreign players are in the lead in terms of both batting and bowling performances.

The captain of the Nepali national team is at the top of the list of highest run-scorers in batting. There are 5 Nepalese and 5 foreign batsmen in the top 10.

Highest run scorer

Although Lumbini Lions could not perform well in the NPL, the captain of this team, Rohit Kumar Poudel, gave an all-round performance in the league stage. Even when the team was losing, he continued to perform excellently. He has scored the highest 279 runs in the league, including two half-centuries.

Rohit, who scored 46 runs against Biratnagar in the first match, scored the highest 95 runs against Pokhara. Similarly, he scored 80 runs against Chitwan. Similarly, Rohit, who scored 35 runs against Janakpur, was out for 5 runs against Sudurpaschim, 8 against Kathmandu and 10 runs against Karnali.

Apart from Rohit, Chitwan’s Ravi Bopara, who did not score two half-centuries, is in second place with 233 runs. Although he was out for 11 runs in the first match against Kathmandu, he then scored his second consecutive half-century by scoring 51 against Pokhara and an unbeaten 59 runs against Karnali.

Similarly, he scored 36 runs against Sudurpaschim, 12 against Lumbini, 20 against Biratnagar and 44 against Janakpur.

Pokhara’s Andres Gauss is in the third position among the highest run-scorers. American wicketkeeper-batter Gauss scored his first century in the NPL. He is the only player to score a century. He did not appear in the first match and played continuously from the second match. After scoring 20 runs against Janakpur, he scored an unbeaten 104 runs against Lumbini in the next match. He then scored 25 runs against Karnali, 39 runs against Biratnagar and 36 runs against Sudurpaschim. He was out for nought against Kathmandu.

Nepali players are in the fourth and fifth positions among the highest run-scorers. All-rounder duo Kushal Malla has scored 202 runs with a half-century and Dipendra Singh Airee has also scored 198 runs with a half-century. Both are performing all-round. Kushal Malla has scored double figures in all matches. He scored 11 runs against Kathmandu, 38 against Pokhara, 23 against Karnali, 13 against Sudurpaschim, 20 against Lumbini, 20 against Biratnagar and 72 against Janakpur in the last match.

On the other hand, Dipendra Singh Airee scored an unbeaten 57 runs against Biratnagar in the first match. After that, his run rate kept changing as he changed the batting order. In the second match, Dipendra, who scored 43 against Kathmandu and 39 runs against Lumbini, was out for 1 against Chitwan and 0 against Janakpur. Then he scored 20 against Pokhara and 38 runs against Karnali.

Apart from this, Lahiru Milantha of Janakpur has scored 192 runs with a half-century. Bashir Ahmed of Biratnagar has also scored 181 runs with a half-century. Saif Ali Zaib has scored 174 runs with a half-century in Sudurpaschim. Tom Murs of Lumbini has scored 165 runs. Brandon McMullane of Sudur and Dinesh Kharel of Pokhara Avengers have scored 162 runs each. Both have hit a half-century each.

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