{"id":2464,"date":"2024-12-21T16:32:32","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2024-12-21T16:32:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T16:32:32","slug":"janakpur-bolts-clinch-maiden-npl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Janakpur Bolts clinch maiden NPL title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Kathmandu: <\/b>The Janakpur Bolts secured their maiden Nepal Premier League (NPL) title with a thrilling 5-wicket victory over Sudurpaschim Royals in the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing a target of 185 runs, Janakpur achieved the score in 19.2 overs with 5 wickets in hand. Lahiru Milantha emerged as the hero for Janakpur, smashing an explosive 87 runs off 49 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Aasif Sheikh contributed 33 runs from 19 balls, while Harsh Thaker remained unbeaten with 30 runs.<\/p>\n<p>For Sudurpaschim Royals, Harmit Singh, Dipendra Singh Airee, Saif Zaib, and Ishan Pandey each claimed one wicket in the bowling department.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Sudurpaschim Royals posted 184 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their allotted 20 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Opener Saif Zaib led the charge with a brilliant 69 runs off 43 balls, supported by Vinod Bhandari\u2019s 41 runs from 31 balls.<\/p>\n<p>Janakpur\u2019s bowlers delivered a stellar performance, with Kishore Mahato and Mohammad Mohsin taking three wickets apiece.<\/p>\n<p>James Neesham and Lalit Rajbanshi chipped in with one wicket each. With this victory, the Janakpur Bolts have etched their name in history as the first champions of the NPL.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-226747\" src=\"https:\/\/english.makalukhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JB-MK-1.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1247px) 100vw, 1247px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.makalukhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JB-MK-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/english.makalukhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/JB-MK-1-240x300.jpg 240w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1247\" height=\"1559\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The Janakpur Bolts secured their maiden Nepal Premier League (NPL) title with a thrilling 5-wicket victory over Sudurpaschim Royals in the final on Saturday. Chasing a target of 185 runs, Janakpur achieved the score in 19.2 overs with 5 wickets in hand. Lahiru Milantha emerged as the hero for Janakpur, smashing an explosive 87 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"1","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"jnews_post_split":{"enable_post_split":"0","post_split":[{"template":"1","tag":"h2","numbering":"asc","mode":"normal","first":"0","enable_toc":"0","toc_type":"normal"}]},"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-sports-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2466,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalinewshub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}