# 2018 Dhangadhi Premier League

2018 Dhangadhi Premier League (known as DPL2, for sponsorship reasons, Ruslan DPL 2) is the second season of Dhangadhi Premier League, a franchise Twenty20 cricket league in Nepal. The tournament started on 31 March and ended on 14 April in Dhangadhi. Team Chauraha Dhangadhi were the defending champions.

## Venue

* Nepal
* Dhangadhi
* SSP Cricket Ground
* Dhangadhi

## Teams and squads

The 2018 DPL features six team franchises. Kanchanpur Iconics were terminated and they were replaced by Mahendranagar United ahead of the season..
The player draft for the 2018 season was held in Kathmandu on 21 February 2018. 185 domestic players were divided into four different categories. The teams also had to sign two overseas players.
| Biratnagar Kings | CYC Attariya | Kathmandu Goldens | Mahendranagar United | Rupandehi Challengers | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi |
| Paras Khadka (c) Basanta Regmi Prithu Baskota Subodh Ayer Pawan Sarraf Ramnaresh Giri Saurabh Khanal Puran BK Avinash Bohara Dilip Nath Anil Kumar Sah Manjeet Shrestha Firtosh Ansari Babar Hayat Shubham Kamat | Subash Khakurel (c) Dipendra Singh Airee Sagar Bhandari Prem Tamang Sandeep Jora Kushal Bhurtel Krishna Karki Kamal Singh Airee Binod Lama Shuvankar Urao Bhuwan KC Aakash Thapa Roman Bam Gaurav Chitkara Vipin Chand | Gyanendra Malla (c) Naresh Budhayer Bikram Thagunna Lalit Rajbanshi Amit Shrestha Santosh Bhatta Kishor Mahato Rashid Khan Sanjay Shrestha Shahab Alam Pushpa Thapa Bhupendra Thapa Sanjay Basnet Jaykishan Kolsawala Sunny Patel Subodh Bhati | Binod Bhandari (c) Karan KC Avinash Karn Aarif Sheikh Narayan Joshi Pranit Thapa Magar Hari Shankar Sah Arun Airee Bhuwan Karki Asif Sheikh Rohit Kumar Paudel Robeen Chhetri Dipendra Chand Puneet Bisht Puneet Mehra | Shakti Gauchan (c) Jitendra Mukhiya Sagar Pun Pradeep Airee Prakash Jaisi Kushal Malla Bipin Khatri Bikram Kumar Bhusal Sonu Ansari Sushan Bhari Siddhant Lohani Amar Singh Routela Dipesh Shrestha Sufyan Mehmood Deepak Prasad | Sompal Kami (c) Rajesh Pulami Magar Bijay Rana Aashu Kandoi Yogendra Singh Karki Lalit Bhandari Sonu Tamang Shankar Rana Rabindra Jung Shahi Samsad Sheikh Sunil Dhamala Mahesh Adhikari Raju Rijal Punit Mishra Rohan Mustafa Ashfaq Ahmed |

## Format
### Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Kathmandu Goldens (RU) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1.148 |
| Team Chauraha Dhangadhi (W) | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | -0.051 |
| Mahendranagar United (3rd) | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0.461 |
| CYC Attariya (5th) | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1.283 |
| Biratnagar Kings | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.204 |
| Rupandehi Challengers | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -2.648 |
* Top 4 teams qualified for the playoffs
* Advanced to Qualifier 1
* Advanced to Eliminator

### League progression

| | Group matches | Group matches | Group matches | Group matches | Group matches | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | QF1/E | QF2 | Final |
| Kathmandu Goldens | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 9 | L | W | L |
| Team Chauraha Dhangadhi | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | W | | W |
| Mahendranagar United | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | W | L | |
| CYC Attariya | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | L | | |
| Biratnagar Kings | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Rupandehi Challengers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Win | Loss | Super-Over | No Result |

## League stage
### Match results

* Match 1 31 March 13:00 Scorecard
| Team Chauraha Dhangadhi 145/6 (20 overs) | v | Kathmandu Goldens 146/3 (18.4 overs) |
| Sunil Dhamala 68 (57) Shahab Alam 3/23 (4 overs) | | Amit Shrestha 81 (65) Samsad Sheikh 2/21 (3 overs) |
* Kathmandu Goldens won by 7 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Amit Shrestha (Kathmandu Goldens)
* Kathmandu Goldens won the toss and elected to field.
* Shahab Alam (Kathmandu Goldens) took a hat-trick.
* Match 2 1 April 09:00 Scorecard
| Rupandehi Challengers 61 (15.2 overs) | v | CYC Attariya 65/1 (7.3 overs) |
| Sufyan Mehmood 20* (25) Kamal Singh Airee 4/15 (4 overs) | | Gaurav Chitkara 30 (13) Jitendra Mukhiya 1/16 (2 overs) |
* CYC Attariya won by 9 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Mahesh Bohora (Nepal) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) Player of the match: Kamal Singh Airee (CYC Attariya)
* Rupandehi Challengers won the toss and elected to bat.
* Rupandehi Challengers' score of 61 was the lowest total in the history of DPL.
* Match 3 1 April 13:00 Scorecard
| Mahendranagar United 168/5 (20 overs) | v | Biratnagar Kings 135 (19 overs) |
| Puneet Mehra 38 (18) Manjeet Shrestha 2/30 (4 overs) | | Prithu Baskota 35 (39) Avinash Karn 3/22 (3 overs) |
* Mahendranagar United won by 33 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) and Himal Giri (Nepal) Player of the match: Puneet Mishra (Mahendranagar United)
* Mahendranagar United won the toss and elected to bat.
* Match 4 2 April 09:00 Scorecard
| Team Chauraha Dhangadhi 151/7 (19.2 overs) | v | CYC Attariya 150/8 (20 overs) |
| Rohan Mustafa 40 (42) Shuvankar Urao 2/12 (4 overs) | | Vipin Chandra 28 (20) Lalit Bhandari 3/24 (4 overs) |
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won by 3 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Durga Subedi (Nepal) and Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) Player of the match: Sompal Kami (Team Chauraha Dhangadhi)
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 5 2 April 13:00 Scorecard
| Rupandehi Challengers 123 (18.4 overs) | v | Kathmandu Goldens 186/4 (20 overs) |
| Pradeep Airee 57 (36) Rashid Khan 4/6 (2.4 overs) | | Sunny Patel 48 (32) Bikram Bhushal 1/26 (3 overs) |
* Kathmandu Goldens won by 63 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) and Himal Giri (Nepal) Player of the match: Sunny Patel (Kathmandu Goldens)
* Kathmandu Goldens won the toss and elected to bat.
* Kathmandu Goldens' score of 186 was the highest in the history of DPL
* Match 6 3 April 10:00 Scorecard
| Mahendranagar United 131/8 (20 overs) | v | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi 132/2 (18 overs) |
| Puneet Mehra 40 (25) Lalit Bhandari 4/37 (4 overs) | | Sunil Dhamala 46 (47) Puneet Mehra 1/22 (4 overs) |
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won by 8 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Buddhi Pradhan (Nepal) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) Player of the match: Lalit Bhandari ([[Team Chauraha Dhangadhi]]
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 7 4 April 09:00 Scorecard
| Rupandehi Challengers 139/7 (20 Overs) | v | Biratnagar Kings 181/4 (20 overs) |
| Pradeep Airee 54 (50) Shubham Kamat 3/18 (4 Overs) | | Babar Hayat 58 (35) Sufyan Mehmood 2/39 (4 overs) |
* Biratnagar Kings won by 42 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Mahesh Bohora (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Babar Hayat (Biratnagar Kings)
* Rupandehi Challengers won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 8 4 April 13:00 Scorecard
| CYC Attariya 126/8 (20 Overs) | v | Kathmandu Goldens 137/9 (20 Overs) |
| Gaurav Chitkara 36 (26) Suboth Bhati 3/10 (4 Overs) | | Gyanendra Malla 57 (43) Shuvankar Urao 3/19 (4 Overs) |
* Kathmandu Goldens won by 11 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar (Nepal) and Hem Joshi (Nepal) Player of the match: Suboth Bhati (Kathmandu Goldens)
* Kathmandu Goldens won the toss and elected to bat.
* Match 9 5 April 09:00 Scorecard
| Team Chauraha Dhangadhi 109/9 (20 Overs) | v | Biratnagar Kings 127 (19.5 overs) |
| Shankar Rana 25 (38) Pawan Sarraf 4/25 (4 Overs) | | Pawan Sarraf 41 (34) Sunil Dhamala 4/10 (4 overs) |
* Biratnagar Kings won by 18 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) and Kamalesh Thakur (Nepal) Player of the match: Pawan Sarraf (Biratnagar Kings)
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 10 5 April 13:00 Scorecard
| Rupandehi Challengers 144/8 (20 Overs) | v | Mahendranagar United 145/6 (18.5 Overs) |
| Pradeep Airee 39 (32) Punit Bista 4/12 (4 Overs) | | Binod Bhandari 61 (48) Dipesh Shrestha 3/25 (4 Overs) |
* Mahendranagar United won by 4 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Durga Subedi (Nepal) and Ram Pandey (Nepal) Player of the match: Punit Bista (Mahendranagar United)
* Rupandehi Challengers won the toss and elected to bat.
* Match 11 6 April 10:00 Scorecard
| Biratnagar Kings 164/8 (20 Overs) | v | Kathmandu Goldens 170/5 (20 Overs) |
| Babar Hayat 67 (33) Lalit Rajbanshi 3/18 (4 Overs) | | Gyanendra Malla 68* (40) Basanta Regmi 2/27 (4 Overs) |
* Kathmandu Goldens won by 5 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Gyanendra Malla (Kathmandu Goldens)
* Biratnagar Kings won the toss and elected to bat
* Match 12 7 April 09:00 Scorecard
| Mahendranagar United | v | CYC Attariya |
* Match abandoned without a ball bowled SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Kamalesh Thakur (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal)
* No toss.
* No play was possible due to wet outfield.
* Match 13 7 April 13:00 Scorecard
| Team Chauraha Dhangadhi 76/7 (8 overs) | v | Rupandehi Challengers 73/5 (8 overs) |
| Sonu Tamang 34 (14) Sushan Bhari 3/14 (2 overs) | | Sagar Pun 33 (16) Rohan Mustafa 2/12 (2 overs) |
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won by 3 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) and Ram Pandey (Nepal) Player of the match: Sonu Tamang (Team Chauraha Dhangadhi)
* Rupandehi Challengers won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain reduced play to 8 overs per side.
* Match 14 8 April 09:00 Scorecard
| Kathmandu Goldens | v | Mahendranagar United |
* Match abandoned with a ball bowled SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Kamalesh Thakur (Nepal) and Ram Pandey (Nepal)
* No toss.
* No play was possible due to wet outfield.
* Match 15 8 April 13:00 Scorecard
| Biratnagar Kings 55/3 (6 overs) | v | CYC Attariya 56/4 (5.4 overs) |
| Dilip Nath 15 (9) Kamal Singh Airee 2/18 (2 overs) | | Vipin Chandra 26 (13) Paras Khadka 2/14 (1.4 overs) |
* CYC Attariya won by 6 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Vipin Chandra (CYC Attariya)
* CYC Attariya won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain reduced play to 6 overs per side.

## Play-offs

| Preliminary | Preliminary | Preliminary | Preliminary | Preliminary | Preliminary | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | Kathmandu Goldens | 127/9 (20 ov) | | | | Q1W | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi | 181/4 (20 ov) |
| 2 | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi | 128/9 (19.5 ov) | | | | Q2W | Kathmandu Goldens | 160/8 (20 ov) |
| | | | Q1L | Kathmandu Goldens | 143/5 (18.2 ov) | | | |
| | | | EW | Mahendranagar United | 142/9 (20 ov) | | | |
| 3 | Mahendranagar United | 130/7 (20 ov) | | | | | | |
| 4 | CYC Attariya | 115/4 (20 ov) | | | | | | |

### Preliminary
#### Qualifier 1

* Match 16 10 April 09:00 Scorecard
| Kathmandu Goldens 127/9 (20 overs) | v | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi 128/9 (19.5 overs) |
| Gyanendra Malla 38 (23) Sompal Kami 2/21 (4 overs) | | Rohan Mustafa 33 (20) Sunny Patel 2/30 (4 overs) |
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won by 1 wicket SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Ram Pandey (Nepal) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) Player of the match: Shankar Rana (Team Chauraha Dhangadhi)
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won the toss and elected to field.
* As a result of this match, Team Chauraha Dhangadhi advanced to the Final and Kathmandu Goldens qualified for Qualier 2.

#### Eliminator

* Match 17 10 April 13:00 Scorecard
| Mahendranagar United 130/7 (20 overs) | v | CYC Attariya 115/4 (20 overs) |
| Aarif Sheikh 35 (37) Kamal Singh Airee 2/16 (4 overs) | | Subash Khakurel 30 (25) Robin Chhetri 2/16 (4 overs) |
* Mahendranagar United won by 15 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Durga Subedi (Nepal) and Kamalesh Thakur (Nepal) Player of the match: Robin Chhetri (Mahendranagar United)
* CYC Attariya won the toss and elected to field.
* As a result of this match, Mahendranagar United advanced to Qualifier 2 and CYC Attariya are eliminated.

#### Qualifier 2

* Match 18 11-12 April 12:30 Scorecard
| Kathmandu Goldens 143/5 (18.2 overs) | v | Mahendranagar United 142/9 (20 overs) |
| Suboth Bhati 52 (18) Puneet Mehra 2/15 (4 overs) | | Puneet Mehra 58 (42) Sunny Patel 6/10 (4 overs) |
* Kathmandu Goldens won by 5 wickets SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Durga Subedi (Nepal) and Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) Player of the match: Sunny Patel (Kathmandu Goldens)
* Kathmandu Goldens won the toss and elected to field.
* Rain stopped play when 2 overs of the 1st innings were completed which caused the match to be rescheduled to begin on April 12 at 12:30.
* As a result of this match, Kathmandu Goldens advanced to the Final and Mahendranagar United were eliminated.

### Final

* Match 19 13 April 12:30 Scorecard
| Team Chauraha Dhangadhi 181/4 (20 overs) | v | Kathmandu Goldens 160/8 (20 overs) |
| Sunil Dhamala 78 (63) Lalit Bhandari 3/22 (4 overs) | | Amit Shrestha 58 (39) Suboth Bhati 2/17 (4 overs) |
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won by 21 runs SSP Cricket Ground, Dhangadhi Umpires: Vinay Kumar Jha (Nepal) and Durga Subedi (Nepal) Player of the match: Rohan Mustafa (Team Chauraha Dhangadhi)
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won the toss and elected to bat.
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won the 2018 Dhangadhi Premier League.
* Team Chauraha Dhangadhi won their second title.

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | Ave | SR | HS | 100 | 50 | 4s | 6s |
| Gyanendra Malla | Kathmandu Goldens | 8 | 7 | 1 | 248 | 41.33 | 131.91 | 68* | 0 | 2 | 14 | 15 |
| Amit Shrestha | Kathmandu Goldens | 8 | 7 | 1 | 242 | 40.33 | 116.34 | 81* | 0 | 2 | 25 | 10 |
| Sunil Dhamala | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi | 7 | 7 | 1 | 229 | 38.16 | 106.51 | 78 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 7 |
| Rohan Mustafa | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi | 6 | 6 | 0 | 198 | 33.00 | 121.47 | 60 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 11 |
| Babar Hayat | Biratnagar Kings | 5 | 5 | 0 | 186 | 37.50 | 200.00 | 67 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 17 |
Source: Cricinfo, as of 13 April 2018

### Most wickets

| Player | Team | Mat | Inns | Wkts | BBI | Avg | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w |
| Lalit Bhandari | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi | 7 | 7 | 14 | 4/37 | 13.21 | 7.11 | 11.1 | 1 | 0 |
| Sunny Patel | Kathmandu Goldens | 8 | 8 | 13 | 6/10 | 10.00 | 4.48 | 13.3 | 0 | 1 |
| Rashid Khan | Kathmandu Goldens | 8 | 7 | 11 | 4/6 | 19.63 | 8.47 | 13.9 | 1 | 0 |
| Shuvankar Urao | CYC Attariya | 5 | 5 | 10 | 3/7 | 5.70 | 4.27 | 8.0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kamal Singh Airee | CYC Attariya | 5 | 5 | 9 | 4/15 | 12.33 | 6.93 | 10.6 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Cricinfo, as of 13 April 2018

### Hat-tricks

| Player | Team | Against | Date | Scorecard |
| Shahab Alam | Kathmandu Goldens | Team Chauraha Dhangadhi | 31 March 2018 | |