The 2014 Nepal Premier League was the first season of the Nepal Premier League. The event was organised by the Cricket Association of Nepal and managed by Zohra Sports Management. It was organised between May and June 2014 and consisted of a One Day tournament played in round-robin format followed by semi-finals and finals between the top four teams. Initially, the 2014 NPL was also supposed to include Twenty20 & Two Day tournaments but were later called off. Two-day tournament was called off by the organising committee due to bad weather conditions in the allocated venues amongst other reasons. Due to tight international schedule, ZSM was unable to complete the Twenty20 event, while telecommunication giants Ncell had also pulled out their sponsorship from the tournament. The Twenty20 & Two Day tournaments are expected to be included from the 2015 season onwards.
The One Day tournament of the 2014 season ran between 14 and 24 May. The venues for One Day tournament were Kailali and Kanchanpur.
Panchakanya Tej were the winners of the One Day tournament after defeating Jagdamba Giants in the final held at Fapla Cricket Ground, Dhangadi, Kailali.
Launch The League was unveiled on 24 February in a press conference held in Hotel Radisson, Kathmandu. Zohra Sports Management and Cricket Association of Npal have done an exclusive agreement to run the league for an initial three years.
Teams and standings
One Day tournament Team Panchakanya Tej 5 3 2 0 0 6 +1.078 Sagarmatha Legends 5 3 2 0 0 6 +0.210 Jagdamba Giants 5 3 2 0 0 6 +0.017 Kantipur Gurkhas 5 2 3 0 0 4 +0.348 Colors X-Factors 5 2 3 0 0 4 -0.768 Vishal Warriors 5 2 3 0 0 4 -0.804
Squads Vishal Warriors Colors X-Factors Jagdamba Giants Panchakanya Tej Kantipur Gurkhas Sagarmatha Legends Paras Khadka (c) Sagar Pun Manjeet Shrestha Yagyaman Kumal Ramnaresh Giri Deepesh Khatri Bhivatsu Thapa Aadil Khan Nurdhos Singh Irshad Ahamad Sushan Bhari Raju Rijal Gyanendra Malla (c) Sanjam Regmi Avinash Karn Siddhant Lohani Rajesh Pulami Subash Pradhan Jata Shankar Sarraf Faizlur Khan Kumar Thapa Amar Rautela Rahul Pratap Singh Harishankar Shah Bijay Ghatam Shakti Gauchan (c) Mahesh Chhetri Naresh Budhayer Sompal Kami Nizamudeen Ansari Haseem Ansari Devendra Sumare Subendu Pandey Amit Dahal Ajay Rajbanshi Pawan Shrestha Amit Shrestha Sharad Vesawkar (c) Sunny Pun Prithu Baskota Raj Pradhan Aarif Sheikh Bhuwan Karki Karan KC Nazir Ansari Dipendra Airee Binod Das Puspa Thapa Nirmal Thapa Somesh Yadav Basanta Regmi (c) Subash Khakurel Pradeep Airee Amrit Bhattarai Suman Gopal Singh Santosh Baral Antim Thapa Surendra Chand Santosh Bhatta Prajwol Shahi Amrit Kumar Shrestha Lalit Dhami Aakash Bista Suman Shrestha Binod Bhandari (c) Anil Mandal Chandra Sawad Lokendra Chand Rupesh Shrivastav Nischal Pandey Paresh Lohani Anupam Singh Mehboob Alam Nabin Dilip Nath Rupesh Bastola Sunil Dhamala
Sponsors [NTC] Nepal are the main sponsors of the NPL 2014 along with Zohra Sports Management.
Rules and regulations Each team will consist of 16 players Maximum of 2 overseas players Each team must contain domestic associate player (i.e., Under-19 cricketers, regional cricketers)
Prize money
One Day tournament Champions: रु 2 lakhs Runners-up: रु 1 lakh
Fixtures and results The inaugural match of the One Day tournament was played on 14 May 2014 at the Fapla Cricket Ground, Dhangadi, Kailali between Vishal Warriors and Sagarmatha Legends.
League stage (One Day)
Knockout stage (One Day)
Semifinal (One Day)
Final (One Day)
See also Nepal Premier League Cricket in Nepal Nepal national cricket team Cricket Association of Nepal
References
External links Cricbuzz Nepal Cricketlok Republica