# 2016 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. but Cricket Association of Nepal insisted that it will not support the tournament unless its name is changed. 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:
| Colors X-Factors | Jagadamba Rhinos | Kantipur Gurkhas | Panchakanya Tej | Sagarmatha Legends | Vishal Warriors |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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

| Team | Pld | W | L | NR | Pts | NRR |
| 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

| | Group matches | Group matches | Group matches | Group matches | Group matches |
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Final |
| Panchakanya Tej | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | |
| Colors X-Factors | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | |
| Vishal Warriors | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 6 |
| Jagadamba Rhinos | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Kantipur Gurkhas | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Sagarmatha Legends | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Win | Loss | Super-Over | No result |
    Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed.
    Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (knockout) to see the match summary.

## Fixtures

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

### League stage

* Match 1 24 September 12:30 A.M
| Kantipur Gurkhas | v | Vishal Warriors |
* Match abandoned without a ball being bowled TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
* No toss.
* Match abandoned due to rain.
* Match 2 25 September 09:30 A.M
| Jagdamba Rhinos 129/4 (20 overs) | v | Panchakanya Tej 133/4 (19 overs) |
| Sompal Kami 43*(20) Sushil Kandel 3-12 (3 overs) | | Prithu Baskota 48(46) Sompal Kami 2-30 (4 overs) |
* Panchakanya Tej won by 6 wickets TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Sushil Kandel (Panchakanya Tej)
* Panchakanya Tej won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 3 25 September 01:15 P.M
| Sagarmatha Legends 124/9 (20 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 125/7 (15 overs) |
| Mehaboob Alam 23 (19) Basanta Regmi 3-13 (3 overs) | | Pradeep Airee 55 (39) Rahul Vishwakarma 3-30 (4 overs) |
* Kantipur Gurkhas won by 7 wickets TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Pradeep Airee (Kantipur Gurkhas)
* Kantipur Gurkhas won the toss and elected to field.
* Pradeep Airee became the first player to score half-century in Everest Premier League Twenty20 history.
* Match 4 26 September 9:30 A.M
| Panchakanya Tej 154/3 (20 overs) | v | Colors X-Factors 120/8 (20 overs) |
| Aasif Seikh 67(60) Sanjam Regmi 1-17 (4 overs) | | Himanshu Dutta 28*(25) Sharad Vesawkar 3-22 (4 overs) Karan KC 3-22 (4 overs) |
* Panchakanya Tej won by 34 runs. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Sharad Vesawkar (Panchakanya Tej)
* Colors X-Factors won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 5 26 September 1:15 PM
| Vishal Warriors 174/4 (20 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 149/5 (20 overs) |
| Paras Khadka 99(45) RK Shrivastavav 2-40 (4 overs) | | S Dhamala 87(60) S Bhari 2-20 (3 overs) |
* Vishal Warriors won by 25 runs. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Vishal Warriors)
* Sagarmatha Legends won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 6 27 September 9:30 A.M
| Jagdamba Rhinos 124/8 (20 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 113/8 (20 overs) |
| Sandeep Jhora 42*(28) Prem Tamang 2-15 (4 overs) | | Sompal Kami 44 (30) Basant Regmi 3-20 (4 overs) |
* Jagadamba Rhinos won by 11 runs TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Sompal Kami (Jagadamba Rhinos)
* Kantipur Gurkhas won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 7 27 September 1:15 P.M
| Colors X-Factors 168/6 (20 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 159/6 (20 overs) |
| Rajesh Pulami 56 (38) Mehaboob Alam 2-20 (4 overs) | | Binod Bhandari 48 (28) Avinash Karn 2-25 (4 overs) |
* Colors X-Factors won by 9 runs TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Gyanendra Malla (Colors X-Factors)
* Colors X-Factors won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 8 28 September 9:30 A.M
| Panchakanya Tej 129/8 (20 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 95/9 (20 overs) |
| Pushpa Thapa 38*(43) Avinash Bohra 4-28 (4 overs) | | Sandeep Jhora 17*(32) Dipendra Singh Airee 4-21 (4 overs) |
* Panchakanya Tej won by 34 runs TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Dipendra Singh Airee (Panchakanya Tej)
* Kantipur Gurkhas won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 9 28 September 1:15 P.M
| Jagdamba Rhinos 113/8 (16overs) | v | Vishal Warriors 117/5 (13.3 overs) |
| Amit Shrestha 39 (24) Ramnaresh Giri 3-25 (3 overs) | | Paras Khadka 56*(38) Shah Alam 2-23 (3 overs) |
* Vishal Warriors won by 6 wickets. (D/L Method) TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Paras Khadka (Vishal Warriors)
* Vishal Warriors won the toss and elected to field.
* Match was reduced to 16 overs after rain disturbed play during first inning with revised target of 114.
* Match 10 29 September 9:30 A.M
| Colors X-Factors 124/8 (20 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 109/7 (20 overs) |
| Yogeshwor Singh Karki 30 (28) Basant Regmi 2-20 (4 overs) | | Pradeep Airee 31 (24) |
* Colors X-Factors won by 15 runs. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Yogeshwor Singh Karki (Colors X-Factors)
* Kantipur Gurkhas won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 11 29 September 1:15 P.M
| Panchakanya Tej 185/5 (20 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 136 (17.4 overs) |
| Karan KC 52(31) Bikram Sob 2-33 (4 overs) | | Mehaboob Alam 23 (19) Sushil Kandel 3-4 (2 overs) |
* Panchakanya Tej won by 49 runs. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Karan KC (Panchakanya Tej)
* Panchakanya Tej won the toss and elected to bat.
* Match 12 30 September 9:30 A.M
| Colors X-Factors 112/8 (20 overs) | v | Jagdamba Rhinos 112/9 (20 overs) |
| Rajesh Pulami 29 (29) Nizamuddin Halwai 3-15 (2 overs) | | Mahesh Chhetri 22(22) Sanjam Regmi 4-12 (4 overs) |
* Colors X-Factors won on one over eliminator. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Sanjam Regmi (Colors X-Factors)
* Colors X-Factors won the toss and elected to bat.
* Match 13 30 September 1:15 P.M
| Vishal Warriors 142/6 (20 overs) | v | Panchakanya Tej 143/8 (19.3 overs) |
| Sagar Pun 44(38) Bhuwan Karki 2-21 (4 overs) | | Aarif Sheikh 47 (34) Dipesh Shrestha 4-29 (4 overs) |
* Panchakanya Tej won by 2 wickets. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Aarif Sheikh (Panchakanya Tej)
* Vishal Warriors won the toss and elected to bat.
* Match 14 1 October 9:30 A.M
| Sagarmatha Legends 127/5 (20 overs) | v | Jagdamba Rhinos 128/2 (17.5 overs) |
| Mehaboob Alam 47*(30) Pawan Sarraf 3-30 (4 overs) | | Shubendu Pandey 78*(52) Sunil Dhamala 1-9 (3 overs) |
* Jagdamba Rhinos won by 8 wickets. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Shubendu Pandey (Jagadamba Rhinos)
* Jagadamba Rhinos won the toss and elected to field.
* Match 15 1 October 1:15 P.M
| Colors X-Factors 37/2 (3.4 overs) | v | Vishal Warriors |
| Fajlur Rahman 21 (7) Ramnaresh Giri 1-18 (2 overs) | | |
* No Result TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
* Colors X-Factors won the toss and elected to bat.
* Rain disturbed the play after 3.4 overs.

#### Final

* Final 3 October 12:15 PM
| Panchakanya Tej 171/4 (20 overs) | v | Colors X-Factors 131 (17.3 overs) |
| Aasif Sheikh 111*(64) Sanjam Regmi 1-20 (3 overs) | | Gyanendra Malla 47 (32) Karan KC 3-35 (3 overs) |
* Panchakanya Tej won by 40 runs. TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur Player of the match: Aasif Sheikh (Panchakanya Tej)
* Panchakanya Tej won the toss and elected to bat
* Aasif Sheikh became the first player to hit century in this tournament

## Statistics

Most runs :
| Player | Team | Runs |
| Aasif Sheikh | Panchakanya Tej | 220 |
| Paras Khadka | Vishal Warriors | 182 |
| Sunil Dhamala | Sagarmatha Legends | 172 |
| Gyanendra Malla | Colors X-Factors | 172 |
| Rajesh Pulami | Colors X-Factors | 145 |
Most wickets :
| Player | Team | Wickets |
| Sushil Kandel | Panchakanya Tej | 12 |
| Karan KC | Panchakanya Tej | 9 |
| Sharad Vesawkar | Panchakanya Tej | 8 |
| Basanta Regmi | Kantipur Gurkhas | 8 |
| Dipendra Singh Airee | Panchakanya Tej | 8 |