JDS Neesham reached fifty from 18 balls against Chitwan Rhinos. Nobody in Nepal Premier League history has done it faster.
The chasing pack
Harmeet Singh got there in 19 balls against Kathmandu Gorkhas. B Sharki also took 19, against Pokhara Avengers. Those are the only three sub-20-ball fifties the competition has produced.
What 18 balls means
A fifty from 18 balls is a strike rate of 277. To do it, a batter essentially cannot afford more than a handful of dot balls — and 41.5% of all deliveries bowled in the NPL are dots.
Neesham's wider record
He is among the most destructive batters in the archive by strike rate, at 185.03 across 187 balls faced — comfortably the highest of any player with a meaningful sample, in a league averaging 116.4.
Thirty-one sixes in thirteen innings tells the same story from a different angle.
