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Dilip Nath
Top-order Batter / Wicketkeeper-Batter•Nepalese
Current NPL team
Lumbini Lions
NPL 2026 status
Confirmed squadSquad listing
03 / 14
01
T20I Matches
4
02
T20I Runs
15
03
List A Matches
9
04
List A Runs
97
05
NPL 2025 Runs
122
06
NPL Best Score (2024)
27
Player overview
About Dilip Nath
Dilip Nath is a left-handed top-order batter and experienced wicketkeeper from Dadeldhura who has represented the Nepal national cricket team since 2017.
Player details
| Full name | Dilip Nath |
| Date of birth | 19 December 1997 |
| Birthplace | Dadeldhura, Nepal |
| Country | Nepalese |
| Playing role | Top-order Batter / Wicketkeeper-Batter |
| Batting style | Left-hand bat |
| Bowling style | Occasional left-arm medium (rarely used; specialist batter in T20) |
NPL record
Dilip Nath at NPL 2026
Season-by-season Nepal Premier League figures for Dilip Nath.
| Season | Team | Matches | Runs | HS | Avg | Wkts | Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NPL 2024 (Season 1) | Pokhara Avengers | Not publicly consolidated | Not publicly consolidated | 27 (vs Kathmandu Gurkhas) | Not publicly available | 0 | N/A (specialist batter) |
| NPL 2025 (Season 2) | Lumbini Lions | Not publicly consolidated | 122 | Not publicly available | Not publicly available | 0 | N/A (specialist batter) |
| NPL 2026 (Season 3) | Lumbini Lions | Season yet to begin (17 Nov–13 Dec 2026) | — | — | — | — | — |
Salary & auction
| NPL 2024 (Season 1) | Signed by Pokhara Avengers — fee not publicly disclosed |
| NPL 2025 (Season 2) | Signed by Lumbini Lions at auction — 10 lakh (NPR 1,000,000) |
| NPL 2026 (Season 3) | Retained by Lumbini Lions — fee not publicly disclosed |
| National Contract | Match fees and central contract salary not publicly disclosed |
Career record
Dilip Nath career records
Available senior career figures from the structured player record.
| Format | Matches | Runs | Wickets | Best bowling | 100s / 50s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T20I | 4 | 15 | 0 | N/A | 0/0 |
| List A | 9 | 97 | 0 | N/A | 0/0 |
Nath also has T10 figures on record: 4 matches, 27 runs, highest score 18, average 9.00, strike rate 180.00. Nepal does not currently hold Test status; Nath has not played Test cricket. Domestic T20 (NPL) figures are not fully consolidated in a single public database — see the NPL Stats table above for what is verifiably known.
Records & achievements
- Part of Lumbini Lions' maiden NPL title-winning squad (2025) and was the not-out batter at the crease when the winning run was struck in the final
- Represented Nepal in List A cricket since December 2017 and made T20I debut in March 2022
- Signed by Lumbini Lions for 10 lakh NPR at the 2025 NPL auction after playing the inaugural season with Pokhara Avengers
Career
Dilip Nath's teams and career
Career Timeline
- 6 Dec 2017 — List A debut vs UAE, 2015–17 ICC World Cricket League Championship.
- Jan 2018 — Named in Nepal's squad for the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two.
- 2021–22 — Named in Nepal's squad for the Nepal T20I Tri-Nation Series.
- 30 Mar 2022 — T20I debut vs Malaysia.
- 4 Apr 2022 — Most recent T20I appearance, vs Papua New Guinea.
- 2024 — NPL debut with Pokhara Avengers (inaugural season); top score of 27 vs Kathmandu Gurkhas.