2018 Everest Premier League

The 2018 Everest Premier League, also known as EPL3 or 2018 TVS EPL because of the sponsorship reason, was the third edition of the Everest Premier League, a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The tournament was held from 8 December 2018 to 22 December 2018. Biratnagar Warriors were defending champions for the tournament but they were eliminated in the group stage. Lalitpur Patriots won the 2018 season and it's their first title.

2018 Everest Premier League
Dates8 – 22 December 2018
Administrator(s)EPL Pvt Ltd
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)Single round robin and playoffs
Host(s)Nepal
ChampionsLalitpur Patriots (1st title)
Participants6
Matches19
Player of the seriesDivyam Adhikari (Gladiators)
Most runsRavi Inder Singh (337)[1]
Most wicketsSaujan Ghimire (Gladiators) (12)
Official websiteeplt20.com.np

Players Release and Bidding

The players release and bidding process was held on 11 November 2018 and broadcast live on the official Facebook page of EPL in the presence of Raman Shiwakoti, chief of EPL technical committee and the manager of Nepal men's national cricket team. In the player release and bidding process, each team could release maximum of three players and they could bid for the released players as well as the unsold players and the players who did not register for 2017 EPL auction. Hari Chauhan was the most bidded player (NPR 85,000) in the process by Biratnagar Warriors. Tigers acquired Sagar Dhakal and Adil Khan. Kings XI brought in Samsaad Sheikh while Rhinos secured Shubhendu Pandey and Nandan Yadav. Gladiators did not bid and Patriots did not release any players.

Venues
TU International Cricket Ground is the host for all matches of the tournament

Teams and Squads

The marquee players from the 2017 Everest Premier League were retained by their respective teams as a part of a three year agreement.[2] The franchise teams are obliged to select at least three foreign players and one local player from the talent hunt program as per the Everest Premier League regulation.

Bhairahawa Gladiators Biratnagar Warriors Chitwan Tigers Kathmandu Kings XI Lalitpur Patriots Pokhara Rhinos
  • International players are listed along with their respective flag.
  • M stands for marquee player.

Points table
Team M W L T NR Points NRR
Lalitpur Patriots541008+1.747
Kathmandu Kings XI541008-0.279
Bhairahawa Gladiators532006-0.370
Chitwan Tigers523004-0.185
Biratnagar Warriors523004-0.250
Pokhara Rhinos505000-0.627
  • The four top ranked teams will qualify for the playoffs
  •   advanced to Qualifier 1
  •   advanced to the Eliminator

League matches
All times are in Nepal Standard Time (UTC+05:45)

Match 1
8 December
13:00
Scorecard
Lalitpur Patriots
104/9 (20 overs)
v
Biratnagar Warriors
105/7 (19.5 overs)
Gyanendra Malla 49(52)
van der Merwe 2/14 (4 overs)
Karan KC 36(19)*
Gaurav Tomar 3/10 (4 overs)
Warriors won by 3 wickets
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha and Sanjay Gurung
Player of the match: Karan KC (Warriors)

Match 2
9 December
09:00
Scorecard
Lalitpur Patriots
143/5 (20 overs)
v
Chitwan Tigers
132/8 (20 overs)
Sonu Tamang 35(24)*
George Scott 2/24 (3 overs)
Patriots won by 11 runs
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha and Ram Yadav
Player of the match: Sandeep Lamichhane (Patriots)

Match 3
9 December
13:00
Scorecard
Pokhara Rhinos
215/5 (20 overs)
v
Bhairahawa Gladiators
216/6 (19.4 overs)
Richard Levi 79(36)
Avinash Bohara 1/33 (4 overs)
Ravi Inder Singh 125(60)*
Bikram Sob 2/25 (3.4 overs)
Gladiators won by 4 wickets
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Sanjay Gurung and Hiralal Raut
Player of the match: Ravi Inder Singh (Gladiators)
  • Rhinos, elected to bat first

Match 4
10 December
09:00
Scorecard
Chitwan Tigers
160/10 (19.5 overs)
v
Kathmandu Kings XI
164/4 (18.5 overs)
Dipendra Singh Airee 45(40)
Samshad Sheikh 3/18 (2.5 overs)
Subramanian Anand 43(18)*
Shahab Alam 2/26 (4 overs)
Kings XI won by 6 wickets
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha and Ram Yadav
Player of the match: Subramanian Anand (Kings XI)
  • Kings XI, elected to bowl first

Match 5
10 December
13:00
Scorecard
Pokhara Rhinos
166/4 (20 overs)
v
Lalitpur Patriots
171/2 (15.5 overs)
Richard Levi 84(39)
Pawan Sarraf 3/31 (4 overs)
Gaurav Tomar 82(41)
Susan Bhari 1/26 (4 overs)
Patriots won by 8 wickets
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Sanjay Gurung and Hiralal Raut
Player of the match: Gaurav Tomar (Patriots)
  • Rhinos, elected to bat first

Match 6
10 December
09:00
Scorecard
Pokhara Rhinos
84/7 (20 overs)
v
Biratnagar Warriors
84/10 (19.3 overs)
Paul Coughlin 20(27)
van Meekeren 3/17 (4 overs)
Aasif Sheikh 19(13)
Bipin Khatri 3/15 (4 overs)
Match tied (Warriors won the one-over eliminator)
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha and Hiralal Raut
Player of the match: Karan KC (Warriors)

Match 7
10 December
13:00
Scorecard
Bhairahawa Gladiators
143/10 (19.3 overs)
v
Chitwan Tigers
131/9 (20 overs)
Ryan Ten Doeschate 35(25)
George Scott 2/13 (3.3 overs)
Paul Stirling 38(23)
Ravi Inder Singh 2/23 (3 overs)
Gladiators won by 12 runs
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha and Hiralal Raut
Player of the match: Ryan Ten Doeschate (Gladiators)
  • Tigers, elected to field first

Match 8
10 December
09:00
Scorecard
Biratnagar Warriors
91/10 (18.4 overs)
v
Bhairahawa Gladiators
92/6 (19.4 overs)
van der Merwe 25(29)
Mohammad Naveed 4/14 (4 overs)
Ryan Ten Doeschate 20(33)
van der Merwe 2/10 (4 overs)
Gladiators won by 4 wickets
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Sanjay Gurung and Hiralal Raut
Player of the match: Mohammad Naveed (Gladiators)

Statistics

Most runs
Player Team Mat Inns Runs Ave SR HS 100 50
India Ravi Inder Singh Bhairahawa Gladiators 8 8 337 56.16 148.45 125* 1 1
Nepal Dipendra Singh Airee Chitwan Tigers 6 6 231 46.20 112.68 56 0 2
India Gaurav Tomar Lalitpur Patriots 7 7 229 38.16 157.93 82 0 2
South Africa Richard Levi Pokhara Rhinos 4 4 204 51.00 196.15 84 0 2
India Jaiskishan Kolsawala Lalitpur Patriots 7 7 188 37.60 99.47 57 0 2

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 December 2018

Most wickets
Player Team Mat Inns Wkts Ave Econ BBI SR
United Arab Emirates Mohammad Naveed Bhairahawa Gladiators 6 6 12 10.83 5.65 4/14 11.5
Nepal Pawan Sarraf Lalitpur Patriots 7 6 11 13.18 6.59 3/13 12.0
India Pardeep Sahu Kathmandu Kings XI 6 6 10 10.40 4.72 3/11 13.2
India Sunny Patel Lalitpur Patriots 7 7 10 13.90 5.14 5/12 16.2
Nepal Lalit Bhandari Chitwan Tigers 6 6 10 17.00 8.03 4/24 12.7

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 December 2018

References
  1. "Most runs". stats.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  2. "Airee drafted in as one of the six 'marquees'". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
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