2021 Everest Premier League Explained

2021 Everest Premier League
Fromdate:	25 September
Todate:	9 October 2021
Administrator:	EPL Pvt. Ltd.
Cricket Format:	Twenty20
Tournament Format:	Single round robin and playoffs
Host:	Nepal
Champions:	Chitwan Tigers
Count:	1
Participants:	6
Matches:	19
Player Of The Series:	Sagar Dhakal (Chitwan Tigers)
Most Runs:	Mohammad Shahzad (Chitwan Tigers) 207 runs
Most Wickets:	Sagar Dhakal (Chitwan Tigers) 14 wickets
Previous Year:	2018
Previous Tournament:	2018 Everest Premier League

The 2021 Everest Premier League, also known as EPL4 or Bajaj Pulsar EPL^[1] for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth edition of the Everest Premier League, a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The event was initially scheduled for December 2019, before being postponed multiple times. Lalitpur Patriots were the defending champions, having won their first title in 2018, but were eliminated in the group stage after finishing fifth.^[2]

Background

The fourth edition of the Everest Premier League was originally scheduled to be held from 8 to 22 December 2019, but was rescheduled to run from 29 February to 14 March 2020.^[3] but was rescheduled again, to run from 14 to 28 March 2020. On 5 March, the event was postponed again due to the coronavirus pandemic.^[4] In February 2021, the 2021 Everest Premier League dates were announced by the Cricket Association of Nepal as 25 September – 9 October 2021.^{[5] [6] [7] [8]} The dates were chosen to coincide with the Vijayadashami festival in Nepal.^{[6] [7]} All matches will be played at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kathmandu.^[9]

The prize money for the competition has been doubled from the 2018 edition, and will be 5 million nepalese rupees (NPR). The runners-up will earn 1.5 million NPR.^[10]

Venues

Kathmandu
Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground
Capacity: 25,000+

Squads

width=330	Bhairahawa Gladiators	width=330	Biratnagar Warriors	width=330	Chitwan Tigers	width=330	Kathmandu Kings XI	width=330	Lalitpur Patriots	width=330	Pokhara Rhinos
valign=top	Tamim Iqbal Upul Tharanga Dhammika Prasad Sharvin Muniandy Sharad Vesawkar (c) Pradeep Airee Aarif Sheikh Rohit Kumar Paudel Bhuwan Karki Kushal Malla Abinash Bohara Krishna Karki Harishankar Shah Dipesh Shrestha Himanshu Dutta Bikash Agri	valign=top	Sikandar Raza Chandrapaul Hemraj Rayyan Pathan Dilshan Munaweera [Om Hari Bishuni Mahato ]] (c) Basant Regmi Aasif Sheikh Anil Sah Sumit Maharjan Ramnaresh Giri Hari Bahadur Chauhan Anil Kharel Bikram Kumar Bhusal Saurav Khanal	valign=top	Mohammad Shahzad Seekkuge Prasanna Karim Janat Virandeep Singh Sompal Kami (c) Dilip Nath Lalit Bhandari Bhim Sharki Ishan Pandey Sandeep Sunar Kamal Singh Airee Shahab Alam Sagar Dhakal Aadil Khan Khadak Bohara	valign=top	Shahid Afridi Janak Prakash Ryan Burl Rahmanullah Gurbaz Ashan Priyanjan Dipendra Singh Airee Sandeep Lamichhane (c) Jitendra Mukhiya Subash Khakurel Amrit Bhattarai Amit Shrestha Raju Rijal M Samsad Sheikh Amar Singh Routela Akash Chand Sher Malla Dipendra Rawat	valign=top	Azmatullah Omarzai Ranjung Mikyo Dorji Oshada Fernando Sandun Weerakkody Jaykishan Kolsawala Lalit Rajbanshi Pawan Sarraf Sundeep Jora Kushal Bhurtel (c) Shankar Rana Sonu Tamang Rashid Khan Yogendra Singh Karki Surya Tamang Narayan Joshi	valign=top	Kesrick Williams Sahan Arachchige Asela Gunaratne Richard Levi Binod Bhandari (c) Prithu Baskota Sunil Dhamala Sushan Bhari Kishore Mahato Bikram Sob Bipin Khatri Nandan Yadav Rit Gautam Lokesh Bam Dev khanal Bipin Rawal

Points table

• The top four teams qualify for the playoffs.
  • advance to Qualifier 1.
  • advance to Eliminator.

League matches

The schedule was published on 8 September 2021.^{[9] [11]}

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Playoff stage

Preliminary

Qualifier 2

Final

References

1. News: Everest Premier League T20 Cricket Trophy . 28 August 2021.
2. Web site: Final, Kirtipur, Dec 22 2018, Everest Premier League . 8 March 2021 . ESPNcricinfo.
3. Web site: 12 August 2019 . Bigger, Bumper, Better EPL in 2020 . 12 August 2019 . MoMo Cricket.
4. Web site: 5 March 2020 . Everest Premier League 2020 postponed due to coronavirus threat . 5 March 2020 . Emerging Cricket.
5. News: 1 March 2021 . EPL in September . Himalayan Times . KATHMANDU: The EPL Pvt Ltd on Sunday announced the dates of the Everest Premier League. According to the organisers, the next edition of the franchise-based Twenty20 cricket tournament will be held in Kathmandu from September 25 to October 9..
6. News: 3 March 2021 . Global Stars will light up 2021 Everest Premier League in Nepal . Czar Sporz Auto . 7 March 2021.
7. News: 1 March 2021 . Nepal's Everest Premier League all set to make a return . Emerging Cricket . 7 March 2021.
8. News: 28 February 2021 . Everest Premier League confirmed to return in September . Cric Nepal . 7 March 2021.
9. 8 September 2021 . Everest Premier League 2021 fixtures: Full EPL cricket schedule, dates . . 16 September 2021.
10. News: 2 September 2021 . EPL 2021 Champions to Pocket NPR 5 Million Prize Money! . Nepali Senar . 2 September 2021.
11. Web site: Everest Premier League 2021 fixtures . 24 September 2021 . Cricinfo.

External links

• • Series home at ESPNcricinfo