Janakpur Bolts' Sixes For Her Future fund reaches NPR 2,40,000

Janakpur Bolts' Sixes For Her Future campaign for girls' education in Madhesh Province now stands at NPR 2,40,000, after the franchise's first three matches of NPL 2026 added NPR 90,000 to a NPR 150,000 starting fund.

A fund that grows with every boundary

Janakpur Bolts have turned their batting and bowling into a classroom fund. The franchise's Sixes For Her Future campaign for girls' education in Madhesh Province now stands at NPR 2,40,000, the official NPL news site reported on 3 November. The total is built from two parts: NPR 90,000 raised on the field across the Bolts' first three matches of NPL 2026, and a NPR 150,000 starting fund set up by ARKSH Group, the campaign's supporting sponsor.

The idea is deliberately simple, and that simplicity is its strength. Every six the Bolts hit and every wicket they take is worth NPR 2,000 to the fund, so supporters can watch the total climb without needing to follow a complicated pledge scheme. The initiative is led by the franchise's youth ambassador, Dr Sareesha Shrestha, and the reported total does not include the Bolts' match against Biratnagar Kings on 3 November, so the next update should be higher still.

How NPR 90,000 was raised in three matches

The opening game showed exactly how the arithmetic works. In their Match 3 loss to Karnali Yaks, the Bolts took nine wickets and hit five sixes, which raised NPR 28,000: NPR 18,000 from the wickets and NPR 10,000 from the sixes. At the same NPR 2,000 rate, the NPR 90,000 banked across three matches equals 45 sixes and wickets combined, a neat illustration of how quickly small per-event sums add up across a short tournament.

The Bolts then gave the fund two winning matches to build on. After the opening loss, they beat Kathmandu Gorkhas by eight wickets in Match 5, and then beat Pokhara Avengers by nine runs in Match 9, with captain Harmeet Singh leading a side that has found its rhythm after a difficult start. Trit Raj Das top-scored with 61 in the Pokhara win, one of the innings that kept the Bolts' campaign, and their fund, moving in the right direction. The full build-up to Tuesday's game is in Biratnagar Kings vs Janakpur Bolts: NPL Match 12 Preview.

Where the money will go

The campaign aims to support at least 10 economically disadvantaged girls in Madhesh Province. Funds will cover school uniforms, books and learning materials, exam fees and transport, the practical costs that most often push a family towards pulling a daughter out of school. Beneficiaries will be chosen by financial need and risk of leaving school, and the Bolts plan to work with local schools or education-focused organisations to identify the girls, distribute the support, and track their progress.

That last detail matters more than it first appears. A fund that only announces a total is a headline; a fund that tracks named girls through school is a programme. By tying distribution to schools and education organisations in Madhesh, rather than handing out a one-off payment, the Bolts have given themselves a structure that can be audited, reported on again at the end of the season, and, if it works, copied. Supporters will rightly want to see the follow-up: the names may stay private, but the number of girls supported and the costs covered should be public.

The Bolts' remaining fixtures

Every six and wicket in the Bolts' remaining league fixtures adds to the fund. They face Lumbini Lions on 5 November, Sudurpaschim Royals on 10 November and Chitwan Rhinos on 13 November, with the schedule carrying the full fixture list and the points table showing where the Bolts stand. A free-scoring game against Lumbini, the defending champions, could add a five-figure sum in a single evening, while a low-scoring grind would still add wickets to the tally.

The campaign also sits alongside another Bolts-linked initiative this season. The Bolts Battalion supporter group's Dot for Dignity campaign donates one sanitary pad for every dot ball bowled by Janakpur, as reported in Janakpur Bolts' Dot for Dignity Campaign. Together, the two campaigns show a franchise and its supporters pulling in the same direction: on-field events, sixes, wickets and dot balls, converted directly into help for girls and women in Madhesh.

Why a cricket fund matters beyond the boundary

It is easy to be cynical about a sports franchise attaching a social cause to its results, and some of that cynicism is healthy: a campaign should be judged on money delivered, not on graphics posted. But the structure of Sixes For Her Future answers the obvious scepticism better than most such initiatives do. The rate is public, the starting fund is named, the match-by-match arithmetic is checkable, and the beneficiary criteria are stated.

There is a second, quieter point worth making. The Bolts are the inaugural NPL champions, a team with a genuine following in Madhesh, and when such a team links its own success to girls staying in school, it gives the cause a reach that a conventional charity appeal would struggle to buy. A six that might otherwise be forgotten by the next over becomes, in this framing, a small act of funding. If the fund keeps growing through the remaining fixtures and the Bolts report honestly at season's end on how many girls were supported and what the money covered, this will deserve to be remembered as one of the better ideas of NPL Season 3, whatever happens to the Bolts on the points table.

The test will come when the season ends and the fund's final total is set against the list of girls it actually helped through school.