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 Singh Routela Harishankar Shah Rahul Pratap Singh Himanshu Datt Nandan 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 Shahab Alam Saurabh Khanal Bishal Gaudel Pawan Sarraf Bishal Sunar Basanta Regmi (C) Subash Khakurel Pradeep Airee Antim Thapa Santosh Bhatta Akash Bista Prajwal Shahi Aakash Gupta Lalit Rajbanshi Abinash Bohara Anil Sah Krishna Karki Sandeep Jora 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 Kurmi Dipesh Shrestha Nurdhoj Sen
Teams and standings
Points table 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 +0.796Jagadamba 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 Team 1 2 3 4 5 Final Panchakanya Tej Colors X-Factors Vishal Warriors Jagadamba Rhinos Kantipur Gurkhas Sagarmatha Legends
Fixtures All times are Nepal Standard Time (UTC+05:45)
League stage
Final
Statistics
+Most runs Player Team Runs Aasif Sheikh Panchakanya Tej 220 Paras Khadka Vishal Warriors 182 Sunil Dhamala Sagarmatha Legends172 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
References
External links Cricketing Nepal