Pawan Sarraf — Karnali’s quiet 140 and the senior all-rounder’s season

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Season 3 numbers

Season 3 numbers below cover the league through Match 21 (10 November 2026). Karnali’s last game was Match 19, on 9 November, so these figures are complete for the Yaks.

Match by match

The shape of the 140 runs is the story: 37 against Janakpur, 36 against Biratnagar, 30 not out against Kathmandu, 5 against the Royals, 32 against Pokhara. Four scores of 30 or more in five innings, and only the Royals game failed. A highest score of 37 with no fifty says the runs come in useful thirties rather than match-winning knocks — the profile of a middle-order finisher, not a top-order anchor.

Ten sixes against two fours is a lopsided boundary count, and it is deliberate: Sarraf clears the rope rather than threading gaps, and the strike rate of 105.26 comes from clearing it. With the ball, the season has not fired — no wickets in four matches, 78 runs in nine overs. The off-break’s job is control and the left-hander matchup, and the wickets may come in the last two games. The batting is what the side needs from him first.

Ten sixes, no fifty

Sarraf’s 140 runs contain ten sixes and two fours — 68 of his runs have come over the rope or to the fence, and most of them over the rope. It is the boundary profile of a finisher who backs himself to clear the field from ball one, and it explains why the strike rate sits above 105 even without a fifty.

His domestic T20 best of 41 shows the same game at a smaller scale: a middle-order batter who finds boundaries square of the wicket and finishes innings rather than building them. Karnali’s problem this season has been the top order’s inconsistency, not the finish — and Sarraf’s steady thirties are the floor the side has been standing on.

The senior head in a young squad

Sarraf’s career has run from youth stardom to senior domestic reliability. He took 3 for 5 against Singapore in the 2020 Under-19 World Cup Asia qualifier, a Player of the Match spell, won a South Asian Games bronze medal with Nepal in 2019, and debuted for Nepal in both white-ball formats in early 2019.

That experience is why Karnali retained him as the senior domestic all-rounder in a young squad — Bipin Sharma is 17, Yuvraj Khatri is 19, Unish Thakuri and Gulshan Jha are 20. When the side has lost three in a row, the dressing room needs a head that has seen it before, and Sarraf is the one who has.

The run-in, through the senior all-rounder

Karnali sit seventh on four points from five matches, with a net run rate of minus 0.846 — the worst in the league. The full table is on the NPL Points Table, and the remaining fixtures are on the NPL Schedule. Two league games are left: Lumbini Lions on Thursday 12 November and Chitwan Rhinos on Sunday 15 November. Win both and the Yaks reach eight points — enough, probably, unless Biratnagar Kings, who can also reach eight, edge them on net run rate. For Sarraf, the run-in is a chance to turn four useful thirties into one match-winning knock, and to pick up the first wicket of his season. Every Karnali result is on the Nepal Premier League hub — follow it all on SialTV.