No Match Today in NPL Season 3 as Rest Day Arrives

There is no Nepal Premier League match today. Wednesday, November 4, 2026, is a scheduled rest day in Season 3, so the TU International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur stays quiet for a day before the tournament returns with a double-header on Thursday.

No NPL match today at Kirtipur

There is no match today, and there is no toss, no live score and no result to follow. Wednesday, November 4 is marked as a rest day in the Season 3 schedule, the second such break in the tournament after October 30. The ground at Kirtipur, which has hosted thirteen fixtures since the season opened on October 26, gets a full day without cricket.

Rest days are part of the tournament's shape, not a disruption to it. Twelve of the thirteen fixtures so far have produced a result, while the Lumbini Lions against Chitwan Rhinos game on October 31 was abandoned without a ball bowled. A day off at this stage lands with the league table still tight: five teams sit within a point of each other behind the leaders, and only Pokhara Avengers are yet to open their account.

For supporters, the practical point is simple. Nothing is postponed and nothing has moved. The fixtures for Thursday stand exactly as scheduled, and the next live action from Kirtipur comes with the first ball of Match 14 on Thursday afternoon. Anyone checking for a score today will find the last completed game is still Tuesday's Match 13.

Where Season 3 stands after Match 13

Lumbini Lions lead the points table with five points. They have won two matches and shared the points in the abandoned game against Chitwan, and their latest win was the most one-sided of the season so far: a chase of 98 completed inside twelve overs against Pokhara Avengers on Tuesday evening.

Four teams sit on four points behind them: Biratnagar Kings, Karnali Yaks, Janakpur Bolts and Sudurpaschim Royals. Chitwan Rhinos have three points, Kathmandu Gorkhas have two, and Pokhara Avengers are bottom without a point after three defeats. That order is what Thursday's two matches will start to shake up, because three of the top four play on the same day.

Tuesday gave the table its current shape. In the afternoon game, Biratnagar Kings defended 174 for 3 against Janakpur Bolts, who finished on 172 for 7, a two-run win built on Andre Russell's unbeaten 52 off 29 balls and four wickets for 45 runs. In the evening game, Lumbini Lions bowled Pokhara Avengers out for 97 for 9 and chased the target with eight wickets in hand, Ruben Trumpelmann taking three wickets for 16 runs. Both results are already on the site's match pages, and both explain why the rest day feels like a pause between two very different stories: Lumbini's surge and Pokhara's search for a first win.

Thursday double-header: Matches 14 and 15

Thursday, November 5, brings two matches at Kirtipur. Match 14 starts at 12:30 PM Nepal time, with Lumbini Lions facing Janakpur Bolts. The evening game, Match 15, starts at 5:00 PM, with Kathmandu Gorkhas facing Biratnagar Kings. The full preview of both games is in the site's November 5 double-header preview.

The evening game is the one most people will be watching. Russell was due to leave the tournament after Tuesday's match, but he has extended his stay for one more game, which keeps him in Biratnagar's side against Kathmandu. “I will play one more match,” Russell said, in comments reported by the Kathmandu Post. He added: “I love Nepal so much, I am staying. I am not going home.” That single decision turns Thursday night into the meeting the season has been building toward: Russell against David Warner, who is playing for Kathmandu after arriving in Nepal earlier in the week.

The afternoon game matters just as much for the table. A Lumbini win would stretch their lead at the top to seven points and leave Janakpur stuck on four, while a Janakpur win would pull them level with Lumbini and drag the leaders back into the pack. Janakpur's last outing was the two-run defeat to Biratnagar, a game they led for long stretches before Russell's late hitting turned it. Thursday is their first chance to answer that defeat, and it comes against the team that has just beaten Pokhara by eight wickets. Neither side can treat it as a routine fixture.

Elsewhere, David Miller's arrival in Nepal for Karnali Yaks was reported on Wednesday, a signing first made before the season that has only now turned into a physical arrival. Karnali do not play on Thursday, so Miller's story will wait for their next fixture, but his presence adds one more name to a tournament that has already seen Warner, Russell, Moeen Ali and Dawid Malan take part. The rest day, in that sense, is not an empty day at all: it is the day the tournament's next chapter gets its cast confirmed.

Where to follow Thursday's matches live

When play resumes on Thursday, the site's live scores page will carry both matches ball by ball, and the streaming guide lists the broadcast options: NetTV as the worldwide streaming option and Himalaya Television for linear television in Nepal. Match 14 begins at 12:30 PM Nepal time and Match 15 at 5:00 PM, both at the TU International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur.

The pause is well timed for the teams chasing the leaders. Biratnagar's two-run win over Janakpur showed a side that can defend a total under pressure, but it also showed how much they lean on Russell, and Thursday night will test whether that reliance survives against Warner's Kathmandu. Lumbini, meanwhile, have the rare luxury of arriving at a match as favourites: their bowling dismissed Pokhara for under a hundred, and their batting needed less than twelve overs to finish the job. Janakpur's task is the hardest of the four teams playing on Thursday, because they must beat the table leaders days after losing a game they should have won.

Pokhara, the only winless side, do not play on Thursday either, which gives them two full days since Tuesday's defeat to reset before their next fixture. Their batting has now failed in all three matches, and the rest of the league will be watching whether the break produces a change or simply delays the same questions. For now, though, the message for today is the simplest one of the season: no match today, two matches tomorrow, and a points table that Thursday could turn upside down.