Deepak Dumre — 81 runs at a strike rate of 197

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Season 3 numbers

Season 3 numbers below cover the league through Match 21 (10 November 2026). Karnali’s last game was Match 19, on 9 November, so these figures are complete for the Yaks.

Match by match

The strike rate is the story. Dumre’s 81 runs have come off 41 balls — 197.56 runs per hundred balls, the fastest scoring among Karnali’s regulars. Fourteen of those 41 balls went for boundaries: eight sixes and six fours, worth 60 of his 81 runs. He bats low in the order and hits from ball one, and the innings have been short because the job is short: 13 off 5 against Janakpur, 20 off 11 against Biratnagar, 8 off 6 against Kathmandu, 18 off 12 against the Royals, 22 off 7 against Pokhara.

The highest score of 22, in the Pokhara defeat, was also his fastest knock — 22 off 7 balls, in a game the Yaks lost by 63 runs. That is the shape of the season for a lower-order hitter: the runs come quickly and the innings end quickly, and the side’s problem has been the top order, not the finish. Dumre has done his part of the job in all five games; the top order has not always done theirs.

Eighty-one runs at nearly two a ball

Eighty-one runs at 197.56 is a strike rate that would lead most sides, and it leads Karnali’s by a distance — the next-fastest regular is Ariful Islam, and Dumre is scoring nearly twice as fast per ball as most of the top order. The boundary count explains it: eight sixes and six fours in 41 balls means a boundary every third ball faced.

The 22 off 7 against Pokhara was the purest version of the game: in a chase that was already gone, Dumre hit out and made the fastest runs of the innings. Lower-order hitting does not win games on its own, but it is the difference between 154 and 130 — and in a season decided by net run rate, those runs matter.

One injury away from the gloves

Dumre is a keeper-first cricketer, and his game is built around that identity. He was named in Karnali’s Season 2 matchday squads as the designated keeper, and his retention — one of the seven home players the franchise held onto when the list was announced on 14 June 2026 — was a quiet vote of confidence: franchises do not spend retention slots on backup keepers they do not rate.

With Bangladesh’s Akbar Ali arriving as the overseas wicketkeeper-batter, Dumre’s job description for Season 3 is readiness — a homegrown keeper one injury or availability issue away from the gloves, already schooled in the Yaks’ systems. Born on 22 September 2004 in Syangja, he is 21, and the five innings this season say the coaches trust the batting even while the gloves wait.

The run-in, through the keeper-batter

Karnali sit seventh on four points from five matches, with a net run rate of minus 0.846 — the worst in the league. The full table is on the NPL Points Table, and the remaining fixtures are on the NPL Schedule. Two league games are left: Lumbini Lions on Thursday 12 November and Chitwan Rhinos on Sunday 15 November. Win both and the Yaks reach eight points — enough, probably, unless Biratnagar Kings, who can also reach eight, edge them on net run rate. For Dumre, the run-in is more of the same job: quick runs low down the order, and the gloves ready if the call comes. Every Karnali result is on the Nepal Premier League hub — follow it all on SialTV.