Harry Tector — one match, one wicket, and a 2.25 economy

One match, and a 2.25 economy

Harry Tector has played one match for Janakpur Bolts in NPL Season 3 — Match 21 against Sudurpaschim Royals, in which he scored 1 and took 1 for 9 in four overs at an economy of 2.25. It was his first appearance of the season.

All-rounder. He came into the side for the Royals game on Tuesday 10 November, the Bolts’ sixth match of the season, and he made his mark with the ball rather than the bat. Tector also plays for Desert Vipers in ILT20.

The match was a low-scoring one. Sudurpaschim Royals made 120 for 9 in their 20 overs — Brandon McMullen top-scored with 33 — and Janakpur were bowled out for 93 in 19.5 overs, losing by 27 runs. Scott Kuggeleijn was named Player of the Match for 3 for 13, and Harmeet Singh took 4 for 17 for the Bolts. Tector’s spell sat between those two headline performances: four overs, one wicket, nine runs, and the tightest economy of any bowler who sent down four overs in the match.

With the bat he lasted four balls. He was caught by Airee off Kuggeleijn for 1, one of the wickets in Janakpur’s slide from a chaseable target to 93 all out. It was a quiet debut with the bat and a genuinely economical one with the ball — the two halves of a single evening that point in opposite directions.

Season 3 in numbers

One match, one run, one wicket. Harry Tector’s Season 3 numbers fit on a single line — and the line that matters most is the bowling one: 1 for 9 in four overs.

Season 3 figures cover every completed match through Match 21 (the abandoned Match 7 produced no play), compiled from the published match scorecards and updated 10 November 2026.

The economy is the number to hold on to. Four overs for nine runs is 2.25 an over — the most economical four-over spell of Match 21, ahead of Tharindu Ratnayake’s 3.00, Scott Kuggeleijn’s 3.25 and Harmeet Singh’s 4.25. He also sent down one wide in the spell. With the bat, his strike rate of 25.0 — 1 off 4 balls — says nothing yet: four balls is not a sample, it is a cameo.

Match by match

Every innings and every spell, in match order. An asterisk means not out. Full scores for every game are on the NPL Results page.

What the numbers mean

One match cannot tell you how good a player is, but it can tell you what he was asked to do. Tector was given the new ball’s aftermath — four full overs in a low total — and he went at barely two an over while the Royals were still setting a target. In a game decided by 27 runs, nine runs in four overs is the kind of spell that keeps a chase alive. The batting, by contrast, is a blank: one run, four balls, caught in the deep end of a collapse.

Whether he keeps his place for the last league match is for the Bolts to decide. Janakpur have one game left, against Chitwan Rhinos on Friday 13 November, and it is a straight shootout for the playoff race. A bowler who goes at 2.25 an over has made a case; a batter with one run in one innings has not had the chance to make one yet.

Where the Bolts stand

Janakpur Bolts sit fifth in the NPL points table on 4 points from six matches — two wins, four defeats, net run rate −0.303. One league match remains: Chitwan Rhinos on Friday 13 November at 4:30 PM NST (3:45 PM PKT, 10:45 AM UTC) at the TU International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur. It is a straight shootout — the winner stays in the playoff race and the loser is out. Chitwan sit one place above Janakpur on 5 points, so a Bolts win takes them past the Rhinos, and leaves Chitwan needing to beat Karnali Yaks on Sunday to stay alive themselves.

The playoffs follow the league stage: Qualifier 1 on Tuesday 17 November, the Eliminator on Wednesday 18 November, Qualifier 2 on Thursday 19 November and the final on Saturday 21 November, all at 4:30 PM NST at the TU International Cricket Ground in Kirtipur.