NPL 2026 franchise

Lumbini Lions

Captain: Rohit Paudel2025: ChampionsSeason not started

Team profile

Captain: Rohit Paudel
Head coach: Tinu Yohannan
Home city: Siddharthanagar, Lumbini Province
2026 venue: Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Owner: Fortuna Health Care
Founded: 2024
Franchise fee: NPR 1.86 crore
2025 finish: Champions
NPL titles: 1 (2025)
League status: Season not started
Squad: 18 players · 5 overseas
Colours: #DF1923#EFC667

Captain, coach, 2025 finish, venue: Wikipedia (retrieved 2026-10-26). Team details from nplcricketleague.com (owner, founded, fee, home, titles; retrieved 2026-10-26). Colours sampled from the team logo.

Season 2026

P: 0
W: 0
L: 0
Pts: 0

FormNo results yet

Position #6 · 7 league matches left · Full table · Win 2 · Tie/NR 1

NPL history

Season	League	Outcome
2024	8th	League stage
2025	4th	🏆 Champions (beat Sudurpaschim Royals in the final)

Team details from nplcricketleague.com.

Lumbini Lions fans on the wall

Next match

Match 1Upcoming

Lumbini Lions

Sudurpaschim Royals

Mon 26 Oct, 17:00 NPTTU International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

Starts Mon 26 Oct, 17:00 NPT. Predict it

Recent results

No results yet this season.

Players to watch

Captain, wicketkeepers and overseas players, as listed in the squad.

Rohit PaudelCaptainBatting all-rounder
Niroshan DickwellaWicketkeeper · Overseas · Sri LankaWicketkeeper
Dilip NathWicketkeeperWicketkeeper
Aasif SheikhWicketkeeperWicketkeeper
Shamim HossainOverseas · BangladeshAll-rounder
Shadley van SchalkwykOverseas · United StatesAll-rounder
D'Arcy ShortOverseas · AustraliaOpening batter
Ruben TrumpelmannOverseas · NamibiaBowler

Squad

18 players · 5 overseas

Batters (3)

Sundeep Jora
Batsman · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed
✈ Overseas
D'Arcy Short
Opening batter · Australia
Bats: Left-handed · Bowls: Left-arm unorthodox spin
Aakash Tripathi
Batter · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Right-arm offbreak

Wicketkeepers (3)

✈ Overseas
Niroshan DickwellaWK
Wicketkeeper · Sri Lanka
Bats: Left-handed
Dilip NathWK
Wicketkeeper · Nepal
Bats: Left-handed
Aasif SheikhWK
Wicketkeeper · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed

All-rounders (5)

Rohit PaudelC
Batting all-rounder · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Right-arm offbreak
Dinesh Adhikari
Batting all-rounder · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Right-arm fast-medium
✈ Overseas
Shamim Hossain
All-rounder · Bangladesh
Bats: Left-handed · Bowls: Right-arm off break
✈ Overseas
Shadley van Schalkwyk
All-rounder · United States
Bats: Left-handed · Bowls: Right-arm medium
Arniko Yadav
Batting all-rounder · Nepal
Bats: Left-handed · Bowls: Slow left-arm orthodox

Bowlers (7)

Tilak Bhandari
Bowler · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Right-arm leg break
Ajay Chauhan
Bowler · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Slow left-arm orthodox
Abhishesh Gautam
Bowler · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Slow left-arm orthodox
Durgesh Gupta
Bowler · Nepal
Bats: Left-handed · Bowls: Left-arm fast-medium
Kishore Mahato
Bowler · Nepal
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Right-arm medium fast
Sher Malla
Bowler · Nepal
Bats: Left-handed · Bowls: Right-arm-offbreak
✈ Overseas
Ruben Trumpelmann
Bowler · Namibia
Bats: Right-handed · Bowls: Left-arm fast

Legend: C captain · WK wicketkeeper · OS overseas. Roles and countries from players' Wikipedia articles where available; gaps for 7 players filled from nplcricketleague.com (Team details from nplcricketleague.com); blank where not stated. Squad data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 (retrieved 2026-10-26). Avatars are initials, not photos.