Rohit Kumar Paudel leads the Nepal Premier League run charts with 555 runs. He has also taken 18 wickets. The second fact is the one that makes him unusual.
The batting
555 runs from 489 balls across 17 innings, at a strike rate of 113.5 and an average of 32.65. The strike rate is very slightly below the league average of 116.4 — Paudel is an accumulator in a competition full of hitters, and he has still scored more runs than any of them.
The bowling
18 wickets at an economy of 6.44, against a league average of 7.27. He is a genuinely tight bowler, not a part-timer who gets through four overs.
The phase profile
His strike rate in the death overs is 180.5. In the powerplay it is 106.4 — a 70% gap. That is a batter who starts carefully and finishes hard, which is exactly what a top-order accumulator should do when the innings has been built.
The final
He took a hat-trick in the 2025 final. It is one of only two in the competition's history, and it came in the game that decided the title, which Lumbini Lions won.
The caveat
His last five innings produced 102 runs from 102 balls — a strike rate of 100, twelve percent below his career mark. Form dips. The body of work does not.
