Biratnagar vs Chitwan Highlights, NPL 2026 Match 2

Biratnagar vs Chitwan highlights from NPL 2026 Match 2: Chitwan defended 157 for 3 and bowled Biratnagar out for 149 at Kirtipur. Watch the fan-made final-over clip, plus the full story of Malan's 70, Airee's 4 for 26 and Russell's late 33.

Biratnagar vs Chitwan Highlights: Match 2 Video

Watch a fan-made clip of the Match 2 finish here: Chitwan Rhinos beat Biratnagar Kings, last-over thriller Short on YouTube. The clip is fan footage, not the official broadcast package. No official highlights had appeared on the rights holders' channels (NetTV or Himalaya Television) when this article was published, and this page will add the official video when it appears.

The footage covers the finish of a short, sharp match. Biratnagar, batting second after winning the toss and electing to bowl, were bowled out for 149 in 19.3 overs chasing 158. Chitwan had posted 157 for 3 in 20 overs at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur on Tuesday 27 October 2026, in the first match of a double-header day.

The clip focuses on the last six balls, which is where the match was decided. Biratnagar needed 14 from the final over with one wicket in hand. Shubham Ranjane struck the first ball for four, then was clean bowled by Tom Taylor off the third ball, and Chitwan closed out an eight-run win.

How Malan's 70 Set Up Chitwan's 157 for 3

Biratnagar won the toss and sent Chitwan in, and for most of the innings that call looked right. Chitwan lost Dev Khanal for 12 off 15 balls and Arjun Saud for 3 off 9, but Dawid Malan held the innings together with 70 off 50 balls, striking five fours and five sixes. He shared a 58-run opening stand with Khanal before Khanal fell, and kept the scoreboard moving while wickets fell at the other end.

Captain Ravi Bopara, unbeaten on 32 off 26 balls, and Dan Mousley, unbeaten on 29 off 22, finished the job with an unbroken 67-run partnership for the fourth wicket. Chitwan scored freely at the death and reached 157 for 3, a total that looked slightly above par on a Kirtipur surface where the ball held up at times. Biratnagar's wickets were shared: Angelo Mathews, Andre Russell and Charith Asalanka took one each, and no bowler took more than one.

The innings had two distinct halves. Malan's fifty anchored the first 13 overs, and the Bopara-Mousley stand lifted Chitwan from a competitive total to a winning one. Biratnagar's bowlers kept the run rate in check early, but the last five overs went for enough runs to leave the chase at nearly eight an over.

Russell's 33 and Airee's 4 for 26 Decide the Chase

Biratnagar's chase started the way their supporters would have wanted. Imran Sheikh made 39 off 31 balls and Lokesh Bam 26 off 14, and the pair put on 40 for the first wicket. Charith Asalanka fell for 8 and Basir Ahamad for 13, but Basir shared a 43-run stand off 24 balls with Angelo Mathews, who made 14, and Biratnagar stayed in touch with the required rate through the middle overs.

Then Andre Russell changed the shape of the match. The West Indian, batting for the first time in the NPL, hit Mousom Dhakal for consecutive sixes off the first two balls of the 15th over, then added two more sixes and a four before holing out at long-off for 33 off 17 balls. At that point Biratnagar needed 26 off 25 balls with wickets in hand, and the chase was theirs to lose.

That is when Kamal Singh Airee took it back. The Chitwan seamer struck twice in the 18th over, removing Rupesh Singh and Pratis GC for ducks, and finished with 4 for 26 in four overs. Rijan Dhakal then took two wickets in the 19th over, including captain Sandeep Lamichhane for a duck, and Biratnagar slid from 141 for 7 to 149 all out. Ranjane, who made 10 off 11 balls, was the last man out in the final over, and Chitwan had defended 157 by eight runs.

The bowling figures tell the story of a shared effort behind Airee's headline spell: Rijan Dhakal took 2 wickets, and Tom Taylor, Ranjit Kumar, Dan Mousley and Mousom Dhakal took one each. Biratnagar lost their last five wickets for eight runs across the 18th and 19th overs, and the two late collapses, not the early platform, decided the match.

What Match 2 Means for Both Sides

Chitwan take two points and a net run rate of +0.400 from their opening match, while Biratnagar start on zero points at -0.400. Lumbini Lions, who won the opener, also sit on two points, so the early table already has a clear top two after two matches. The full standings are on the points table, and the full scorecard and ball-by-ball coverage sit on the Biratnagar vs Chitwan match centre.

Airee's award is the second individual honour of the season after Sher Malla's Player of the Match spell in the opener. The seamer's 18th over, two wickets for no score when Biratnagar were favourites, was the single most valuable over of the match so far. Malan's 70, meanwhile, confirmed what Chitwan bought him for: a top-order anchor who can bat through the innings while the hitters bat around him.

Both teams play again on Saturday 31 October at Kirtipur. Chitwan face Lumbini Lions at 12:30 PM NST, and Biratnagar face Sudurpaschim Royals later the same day. The match report is covered in Chitwan Rhinos Beat Biratnagar Kings by 8 Runs in NPL M2, and the toss that shaped the match is covered in Biratnagar Win Toss, Elect to Bowl vs Chitwan in NPL M2.

No post-match quotes from either captain had been published by a verified outlet when this article was written, so none are quoted here. The tournament runs from 26 October to 21 November, with 28 league matches and four playoffs, all at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur.

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