The 2017 Everest Premier League, also abbreviated as 2017 EPL, and branded as TVS EPL 2017, was the second edition of the Everest Premier League, a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The tournament was scheduled to be held from 18 December 2017 to 30 December 2017. The tournament featured six teams and their names were based on the cities.
Biratnagar Warriors were undefeated throughout the tournament. They became champions after defeating Bhairahawa Gladiators by 1 run in the final. Babar Hayat became player of the series for scoring highest runs and hitting most sixes in the tournament. Rohit Kumar Paudel was awarded as most valuable player for finishing well in some matches for Bhairahawa Gladiators. Israrullah and Basant Regmi were leading wicket takers in the tournament with 12 wickets.
Background EPL Pvt Ltd announced the second season of the Everest Premier League on 30 July 2017 at Durbarmarg, Kathmandu. The founder of EPL, Aamir Akhtar disclosed the prize money of 2.1 million rupees to the winner of the tournament. He also announced that the name of the franchise teams will be based on the cities rather than the corporate houses. The logo of the tournament was also unveiled on the ceremony by the Nepalese national team captain, Paras Khadka and the head coach Jagat Tamatta.
Player Auctions Dipendra Singh Airee, Shakti Gauchan, Sompal Kami, Paras Khadka, Gyanendra Malla and Sharad Vesawkar were selected as marquee players by each teams before the auction. Each teams were allowed to spend Rs. 1 million. The auction was held on 23 October 2017 and 60 players(10 to each teams), categorized as A, B and C were sold to the franchisee. Binod Bhandari, Karan KC, Sandeep Lamichhane and Aarif Sheikh were the expensive players in the auction with the highest bid of Rs.175,000.
Venues
Teams Each team consisted of 15 players. 10 players were bought by each teams through auction. A talent hunt was conducted by each teams in their respective cities to acquire a young player in their squad. Similarly, the teams also included at least three foreign players in their team. Bhairahawa Gladiators Biratnagar Warriors Chitwan Tigers Kathmandu Kings XI Lalitpur Patriots Pokhara RhinosSharad Vesawkar (c) Pradeep Airee Puneet Bisht Abinash Bohara Bhuwan Karki Krishna Karki Prakash KC Puneet Mehra Rohit Paudel Harishankar Shah Pratham Salunke Aarif Sheikh Harjeet Singh Dipesh Shrestha Bhupendra Thapa Rahul YadavParas Khadka (c) Sahan Adeesha Aakash Bista Ramnaresh Giri Babar Hayat Avinash Karn Dipesh Kandel Karan K.C. Pranit Thapa Magar Sumit Maharjan Anshuman Rath Basant Regmi Anil Sah Aasif Sheikh Puspa ThapaPrithu Baskota (c) Dipendra Singh Airee Kamal Singh Airee Shahab Alam Lalit Bhandari Sunam Gautam Praveen Gupta Yogendra Singh Karki Shawej Khan Parmesh Kumar Anil Mandal Dilip Nath Bhim Sharki Sandeep Sunar Aakash ThapaFarveez Maharoof (c) Bikram Bhusal Naresh Budhayer Akshu Fernando Sompal Kami Sushil Kandel Sagar Kumar Siddhant Lohani Jitendra Mukhiya Sagar Pun Raju Rijal Amar Singh Routela Samshad Sheikh Amit Shrestha Puran BK Rahul VishwakarmaGyanendra Malla (c) Mehboob Alam Dipesh Bhandari Suboth Bhati Kushal Bhurtel Sumit Jha Sundeep Jora Rashid Khan Jaykishan Kolsawala Sandeep Lamichhane Yogesh Nagar Sunny Patel Lalit Rajbanshi Shankar Rana Pawan Sarraf Rajbir Singh Sonu TamangShakti Gauchan (c) Asif Ali Binod Bhandari Sushan Bhari Santosh Bhatta Sunil Dhamala Israrullah Saurabh Khanal Bipin Khatri Rajesh Pulami Magar Kishor Mahato Nurdhoj Sen Dev Shah Bikram Sob Taj Wali Foreign players are listed in bold. Players selected from the talent hunt are listed in italics.
Points table TeamMWLTNRPointsNRRBiratnagar Warriors 5 5 0 0 0 10 1.235 Bhairahawa Gladiators 5 4 1 0 0 8 0.208 Lalitpur Patriots 5 2 3 0 0 4 0.128 Pokhara Rhinos 5 2 3 0 0 4 0.062 Kathmandu Kings XI 5 1 4 0 0 2 −0.682 Chitwan Tigers 5 1 4 0 0 2 −0.998 The four top ranked teams will qualify for the playoffs advanced to Qualifier 1 advanced to the Eliminator Eliminated
League matches
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Match 5
Match 6
Match 7
Match 8
Match 9
Match 10
Match 11
Match 12
Match 13
Match 14
Match 15
Playoff stage
Preliminary
Qualifier 1
Eliminator
Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics
Most runs
Player Team Runs Babar Hayat Biratnagar Warriors 313 Anshuman Rath Biratnagar Warriors 271 Jaykishan Kolsawala Lalitpur Patriots 227 Israrullah Pokhara Rhinos 196 Aarif Sheikh Bhairahawa Gladiators 187 Source: Cricinfo
Most wickets
Player Team Wickets Israrullah Pokhara Rhinos 12 Basant Regmi Biratnagar Warriors 12 Praveen Gupta Chitwan Tigers 10 Paras Khadka Biratnagar Warriors 10 Harishankar Sah Bhairahawa Gladiators 10 Source: Cricinfo
References
External links
News, Views, Scorecard, Match Reports of Everest Premier League 2017 https://wicketnepal.com/everest-premier-leagues-fixture-announced-wn017/