NPL Century Club: Pokhara Avengers Own 3 of 4

Pokhara Avengers own the Nepal Premier League's Century Club. Three of the four hundreds ever scored in the league belong to Pokhara batters, and Yuvraj Samra's 102 against Karnali Yaks on 9 November 2026 completed a set that stretches back to the very first season.

A club with only four members

Centuries are the rarest currency in the NPL. Half-centuries arrive by the dozen — 35 were scored in the second season's league stage alone — but only four batters have ever reached three figures in the league's three seasons. Three of them wore Pokhara colours. The fourth, Karnali Yaks' Mark Watt, owns the fastest and the highest of the four hundreds, which makes Pokhara's grip on the club all the more striking: the one record Pokhara does not hold is the one Watt set against Lumbini Lions.

The four hundreds, in order: Andries Gous, 104 not out for Pokhara against Lumbini Lions in December 2024; Mark Watt, 114 not out for Karnali against Lumbini in November 2025; Adam Rossington, 108 not out for Pokhara against Karnali in December 2025; and Yuvraj Samra, 102 for Pokhara against Karnali in November 2026. Every one of them came in a winning cause, and every one of them was scored by an overseas batter.

Gous sets the template

The first century in NPL history arrived in the 11th match of the inaugural season, on 6 December 2024, and it could hardly have been more emphatic. Chasing 171 against Lumbini Lions at Kirtipur, Pokhara openers Andries Gous and Dinesh Kharel put on an unbroken 176-run stand and won by 10 wickets with 19 balls to spare. Gous finished on 104 not out from 55 balls, with 12 fours and five sixes, reaching his hundred off the last ball of the 16th over. Kharel played the supporting role with 61 not out from 46 balls.

It was Pokhara's first win of the season, and it set the pattern for everything that followed: when a Pokhara batter reaches three figures, Pokhara wins. Gous, an American wicketkeeper-batter, had announced himself in the most decisive way possible, and he had given his team a record that no other side has matched since.

Watt breaks the run — and sets the record

For almost a year, Gous stood alone. Then, on 22 November 2025, a Scotland spinner opening the batting produced the most destructive innings the league has seen. Chasing 157 against Lumbini Lions, Karnali Yaks' Mark Watt smashed 114 not out from just 44 balls, with six fours and 12 sixes, reaching his hundred in 41 balls — still the fastest century in NPL history. Karnali won by nine wickets with 46 balls to spare, and Watt's 114 remains the highest individual score among the four hundreds.

Watt's innings is the exception that proves Pokhara's rule. It is the only century in the club scored by a batter from another team, and it is also the only one scored in a chase. Karnali won the toss, bowled first, and Lumbini posted 156 for 8 — then Watt made the target look small inside 13 overs. He had already taken a wicket with the ball, finishing with 1 for 16 from three overs, before he opened the batting and took the match away.

Rossington restores Pokhara's grip

Ten days later, Pokhara took the club back. On 2 December 2025, Adam Rossington's unbeaten 108 from 58 balls carried Pokhara to 201 for 2 against Karnali Yaks — only the second time any team had passed 200 in the league. Jason Roy made 46 from 34 balls at the other end, and Dhananjaya Lakshan finished unbeaten on 23 from 11 as Pokhara posted a target of 202. Karnali were bowled out for 167 in 19 overs, and Pokhara won by 34 runs.

Rossington's hundred was the third in NPL history, and it confirmed that Pokhara, not any other team, was the league's home of big hundreds. The English wicketkeeper-batter finished the season as the tournament's leading run-scorer, with 323 runs in seven matches, and his 108 not out was the centrepiece of that campaign.

Samra completes the set

The fourth hundred belonged to the youngest of the four. On Monday, 9 November 2026, Canadian opener Yuvraj Samra — playing only his second match for Pokhara — smashed 102 from 48 balls against Karnali Yaks in Match 19 at Kirtipur, with 10 fours and six sixes. He reached his fifty in 23 balls and his hundred in 45, and by the time he fell in the 16th over, caught by Ariful Islam off Mark Watt, Pokhara were already on their way to 217 for 3.

Samra's hundred did more than complete the club. It ended Pokhara's four-match losing start to Season 3 and delivered their first win of the campaign, a 63-run victory after Karnali were bowled out for 154 in 18.3 overs. Kushal Bhurtel's 62 from 39 balls and Chamika Karunaratne's unbeaten 35 from 11 carried Pokhara past 200 for the second time in their history — and the first time this season.

It was also the first century of Season 3, and it arrived at the moment Pokhara needed it most. They had lost their first four matches and sat at the foot of the table. Two points from five matches still leaves them last, but the win repaired their net run rate and kept a slim playoff hope alive: beat Biratnagar Kings on 12 November and Kathmandu Gorkhas on 15 November, and the conversation changes.

Two hundred, three times

The century club has a companion record, and Pokhara own that one too. Only three totals above 200 have ever been posted in the NPL: Biratnagar Kings' 220 for 6 against Pokhara on 18 November 2025, Pokhara's 201 for 2 against Karnali on 2 December 2025, and Pokhara's 217 for 3 against Karnali on 9 November 2026. Pokhara are the first — and still the only — team to pass 200 twice, and their 217 is the second-highest total the league has seen.

Biratnagar's 220 remains the benchmark. Set under lights against the same Pokhara attack, it was built on a 132-run stand between Martin Guptill and Lokesh Bam, and Biratnagar won that match by 53 runs after bowling Pokhara out for 167. Pokhara were on the receiving end that night — and then went out and passed 200 twice themselves.

What the club says about Pokhara

The numbers point to a strange contradiction. Pokhara are the league's great batting team on paper — three of its four centuries, two of its three 200-plus totals — and yet they missed the playoffs in both previous seasons, and they began Season 3 with four straight defeats. The hundreds have always come; the consistency around them has not.

That is what makes Samra's hundred matter beyond the record books. It was not just the fourth century in NPL history. It was the first win of a season that was slipping away, scored by a 19-year-old in his second match for the franchise, in front of a crowd that had waited five matches for something to cheer. If Pokhara are to turn this season around, it will be because their batters keep doing what only they seem to do: score hundreds, and win the matches they score them in.

Three seasons, four hundreds, and one team owns three of them. The Century Club is Pokhara's — and after Samra's 102, the rest of the league knows exactly what it takes to join it.