2016 Everest Premier League Explained

2016 Everest Premier League
Administrator:	Cricket Association of Nepal
Cricket Format:	Twenty20
Tournament Format:	Round-robin and Final
Host:
Champions:	Panchakanya Tej
Count:	1
Participants:	6
Matches:	16
Player Of The Series:	Sompal Kami (Jagadamba Rhinos)
Most Runs:	Aasif Sheikh (220, Panchakanya Tej)
Most Wickets:	Sushil Kandel (12, Panchakanya Tej)
Next Year:	2017
Next Tournament:	2017 Everest Premier League

The 2016 Everest Premier League was the debut season of the Everest Premier League. It was supposed to be the second edition of the Nepal Premier League, abbreviated as NPL, and was scheduled to be held from 26 March to 4 April 2015 in Kirtipur.^[1] ^[2] but Cricket Association of Nepal insisted that it will not support the tournament unless its name is changed.^[3] Later, the board decided to uphold the tournament as the name was changed to Everest Premier League and provided the ground for competition. The tournament began on 24 September and ended on 3 October 2016.

The title was won by Panchakanya Tej, who defeated Colors X-Factors by 40 runs in the final. Sompal Kami of Jagadamba Rhinos was player of the tournament.

Teams

Six franchise teams were formed under the names of corporate houses. The list of the teams and their players are listed below:

width=330	Colors X-Factors	width=330	Jagadamba Rhinos	width=330	Kantipur Gurkhas	width=330	Panchakanya Tej	width=330	Sagarmatha Legends	width=330	Vishal Warriors
valign=top	Gyanendra Malla (C) Avinash Karn Siddhant Lohani Rajesh Pulami Sanjam Regmi Fazrul Rahman Amar Rautela Harishankar Shah Rahul Pratap Singh Himanshu Datt Nandan Kumar Yadav Yogeshwor Singh Karki Arun Airee Sanjay Basnet	valign=top	Shakti Gauchan (C) Mahesh Chhetri Sompal Kami Nizamudeen Ansari Haseem Ansari Subendu Pandey Prem Tamang Amit Shrestha Bhupendra Thapa Shah Alam Saurabh Khanal Bishal Gaudel Pawan Sharaf Bishal Sunar	valign=top	Basanta Regmi (C) Subash Khakurel Pradeep Airee Antim Thapa Santosh Bhatta Akash Bista Prajwal Shahi Aakash Gupta Lalit Narayan Rajbanshi Avinash Bohara Anil Sah Krishna Karki Sandeep Jhora	valign=top	Sharad Vesawkar (C) Sunny Pun Sushil Kandel Bhuwan Karki Karan KC Aarif Sheikh Sanjay Shrestha Sonu Tamang Puspa Thapa Dipendra Singh Airee Prithu Baskota Aasif Sheikh Kushal Bhurtel Nirmal Thapa	valign=top	Binod Bhandari (C) Dilip Nath Mahboob Alam Anil Mandal Sunil Dhamala Rahul Vishwakarma Bikram Sob Sandeep Sunar Chandra Sawad Shankar Rana Lal Bahadur Adhikari Rupesh Shrivastav Nischal Pandey Anupam Singh	valign=top	Paras Khadka (C) Raju Rijal Sagar Pun Paresh Lohani Manjeet Shrestha Deepesh Khatri Prakash KC Sushan Bhari Ramnaresh Giri Irshad Ahmed Yagyaman Kumal Suraj Prasad Kurma Dipesh Shrestha Nurdhoj Sen

Teams and standings

Points table

width=150		width=20		width=20		width=20	width=20	width=20	width=20
Panchakanya Tej	5	5	0	0	10	+1.333
Colors X-Factors	5	3	1	1	7	-0.125
Vishal Warriors	5	2	1	2	6	+0.796
Jagadamba Rhinos	5	2	3	0	4	-0.050
Kantipur Gurkhas	5	1	3	1	3	-0.369
Sagarmatha Legends	5	0	5	0	0	-1.452

advanced to the Final

League progression

Fixtures

All times are Nepal Standard Time

League stage

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Final

Statistics

Most runs

Player	Team	Runs
Aasif Sheikh		220	6	44.00	134.96	111*	1	1
Paras Khadka		182	3	91.00	182.00	99	0	2
Sunil Dhamala	Sagarmatha Legends	172	4	43.00	117.80	87	0	1
Gyanendra Malla		172	4	28.66	110.96	52	0	1
Rajesh Pulami		145	5	29	107.40	56	0	1

Most wickets

Player	Team
Sushil Kandel		12	6	7.08	4.47	9.50	3/4
Karan KC		9	6	19.55	7.65	15.30	3/22
Sharad Vesawkar		8	6	9.12	6.34	8.60	3/22
Basanta Regmi		8	4	4.81	9.62	12	3/13
Dipendra Singh Airee	Panchakanya Tej	8	6	16.00	6.19	15.50	4/21

External links

Cricketing Nepal

Notes and References

Web site: CAN gives official nod for much debated NPL T20. Nepal Cricket.
News: NPL back with new sponsors . cricketingnepal.com.
Web site: NPL into hot water again. cricketingnepal.com.