Karnali Yaks Team: Squad, Results, Stats & Schedule

Karnali Yaks are a professional T20 franchise representing Karnali Province. The club entered the Nepal Premier League in its inaugural 2024 season and is owned through Himalayan Builders & Engineers.

Sompal Kami has remained the marquee leader and latest documented captain, while the club's last published head-coach appointment names former Nepal captain Gyanendra Malla. The current tracker contains 13 confirmed domestic players; a separate Season 3 captain-and-staff announcement, the talent-hunt player, overseas group and match-by-match schedule were still unpublished at this update.

Karnali reached Qualifier 2 in 2024 after a 4–3 league record and an Eliminator win over Chitwan Rhinos. Janakpur Bolts ended the run with a two-wicket victory, leaving Qualifier 2 as the franchise's best finish.

The Yaks fell to sixth in 2025 with two wins, five losses, four points and NRR -0.356. Their standout moment was Mark Watt's 44-ball 114 not out in a nine-wicket chase against Lumbini Lions; they closed the season by defending 129 against Janakpur by three runs.

The 13 names combine seven retentions with six players added through the 6 July domestic auction process. They are the confirmed domestic core, not every player Karnali will necessarily register for Season 3.

CAN increased each franchise's domestic quota to 14. Reporting after the auction said teams reached 13 through the auction and wish-list process, with the last domestic place reserved for a team talent hunt.

Overseas recruitment sits outside that domestic count and had not been announced for Karnali by the cutoff. Calling this a complete squad would erase both open layers.

No. Mark Watt, Max O'Dowd, Priyank Panchal and Karnali's other 2025 overseas players belong to the completed Season 2 record unless a fresh Season 3 agreement is published.

A strong prior performance does not create an automatic retention. Overseas players are signed separately from Nepal's domestic auction, so an old roster or a predicted XI cannot confirm a new contract.

This page keeps Mark Watt in the 2025 leaders and results sections but outside the 13-player 2026 core. That preserves his season record without inventing future availability.

Sompal Kami is confirmed in the retained core as Karnali's marquee player and is the latest documented captain. A separate Season 3 captain announcement was not found, so retention and captaincy are not treated as identical claims.

Gyanendra Malla is the club's last published head coach and cricket director, appointed in 2024. The available Season 3 retention and auction reports do not provide a new coaching-staff list.

The page therefore preserves both leadership records with dates and scope, while withholding a current coach from structured data until the club publishes a fresh Season 3 staff state.

Watt's 114 not out supplied 46.3% of his 246 season runs. He reached the hundred from 41 balls and finished on 114 from 44, with six fours and 12 sixes accounting for 96 boundary runs.

Karnali chased Lumbini's 156/8 with 161/1 in only 12.2 overs. The nine-wicket margin and 46 balls unused make it a dominant single result, not a typical picture of a team that finished 2–5.

One innings can shape a short-season aggregate heavily. Watt still led Karnali across seven matches, but readers should interpret the total beside the concentration of runs in that exceptional chase.

No. CAN's franchise-licensing record identifies Himalayan Builders as Karnali Yaks' owner, with the licence acquired for NPR 11.17 million. Jhanak Dutta Khanal and Grihendra Ghimire are the publicly documented ownership representatives.

Nepal T-20 Pvt Ltd is associated with Pokhara Avengers, not Karnali. Mixing the two usually comes from copying a competition-wide franchise table into the wrong team profile.

Karnali's represented province, operating company and competition venue are also different concepts: the franchise represents Karnali, is owned through Himalayan Builders, and played the cited NPL matches centrally in Kirtipur.