The high flying Chitwan Rhinos takes on Lumbini Lions in the fifth match of the Nepal Premier League 2025. Chitwan Rhinos defeated Karnali Yaks in their first match whereas, Lumbini Lions are playing their first match of the season today.



Lumbini Lions will be boosted by their new foreign player D'Archy Short and Gulbadin Naib. Meanwhile, Chitwan will be looking to get best out of the former number 1 T20I batter Dawid Malan. 

The match between Chitwan Rhinos and Lumbini Lions will start from 4 pm Nepali time. 


Squads

Lumbini Lions: D'Arcy Short, Gulbadin Naib, JJ Smit, Ruben Trumpelmann, Dilip Nath, Aadil Khan, Rohit Paudel, Sumit Maharjan, Dinesh Adhikari, Sher Malla, Sundeep Jora, Tilak Bhandari, Durgesh Gupta, Bishal Patel, Thomas Draca, Sameer Ali Musalman, and Abhishesh Gautam.

Chitwan Rhinos: Bipin Acharya, Ravi Bopara (Batting Allrounder), Deepak Bohara, Rijan Dhakal (Bowler), Gautam KC, Dev Khanal (Top-order Batter), Ranjit Kumar, Kushal Malla (Batting Allrounder), Dawid Malan (Top-order Batter), Alpesh Ramjani (Allrounder), Bipin Rawal, Amar Routela, Arjun Saud (Wicketkeeper-Batter), Sohail Tanvir (Bowler), and Saif Zaib (Batting Allrounder).