The 2018 Everest Premier League, also known as EPL3 or 2018 TVS EPL because of the sponsorship reason, was the third edition of the Everest Premier League, a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The tournament was held from 8 December 2018 to 22 December 2018. Biratnagar Warriors were defending champions for the tournament but they were eliminated in the group stage. Lalitpur Patriots won the 2018 season and it's their first title.
Players Release and Bidding The players release and bidding process was held on 11 November 2018 and broadcast live on the official Facebook page of EPL in the presence of Raman Shiwakoti, chief of EPL technical committee and the manager of Nepal men's national cricket team. In the player release and bidding process, each team could release maximum of three players and they could bid for the released players as well as the unsold players and the players who did not register for 2017 EPL auction. Hari Chauhan was the most bidded player (NPR 85,000) in the process by Biratnagar Warriors. Tigers acquired Sagar Dhakal and Adil Khan. Kings XI brought in Samsaad Sheikh while Rhinos secured Shubhendu Pandey and Nandan Yadav. Gladiators did not bid and Patriots did not release any players.
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Teams and squads The marquee players from the 2017 Everest Premier League were retained by their respective teams as a part of a three-year agreement. The franchise teams are obliged to select at least three foreign players and one local player from the talent hunt program as per the Everest Premier League regulation. Bhairahawa GladiatorsBiratnagar WarriorsChitwan TigersKathmandu Kings XILalitpur PatriotsPokhara RhinosSharad Vesawkar (c) Pradeep Airee Aarif Sheikh Rohit Kumar Paudel Bhuwan Karki Krishna Karki Prakash KC Anil Kharel Kushal Malla Harishankar Shah Dipesh Shrestha Bhupendra Thapa Ryan Ten Doeschate Mohammad Naveed Ravi Inder Singh Puneet Mehra Paras Khadka (c) Karan KC Basant Regmi Anil Sah Aasif Sheikh Aakash Bista Hari Bahadur Chauhan Ramnaresh Giri Dipesh Kandel Pranit Thapa Magar Sumit Maharjan Puspa Thapa Babar Hayat Paul van Meekeren Roelof van der Merwe Smit Patel Prithu Baskota (c) Dipendra Airee Lalit Bhandari Dilip Nath Bhim Sharki Kamal Singh Airee Shahab Alam Sagar Dhakal Aadil Khan Ishan Pandey Sandeep Sunar Aakash Thapa Paul Stirling John Simpson George Scott Sompal Kami (c) Naresh Budhayer Siddhant Lohani Jitendra Mukhiya Sagar Pun Raju Rijal Bikram Bhusal Amar Singh Routela Samshad Sheikh Amit Shrestha Nitesh Thapa Puran BK Subramanian Anand Rohan Mustafa Kevin O'Brien Pardeep Sahu Gyanendra Malla (c) Sundeep Jora Sandeep Lamichhane Lalit Rajbanshi Pawan Sarraf Kushal Bhurtel Sumit Jha Yogendra Singh Karki Rashaid Khan Shankar Rana Sonu Tamang Jaykishan Kolsawala Sunny Patel Gourav Tomar Shakti Gauchan Binod Bhandari Sushan Bhari Sunil Dhamala Rajesh Pulami Magar Saurabh Khanal Bipin Khatri Kishore Mahato Shubhendu Pandey Dev Shah Bikram Sob Nandan Yadav Kyle Coetzer (c) Sunny Bhimsaria Paul Coughlin Richard Levi
Points table TeamMWLTNRPointsNRRLalitpur Patriots 5 4 1 0 0 8 +1.747Kathmandu Kings XI 5 4 1 0 0 8 -0.279Bhairahawa Gladiators 5 3 2 0 0 6 -0.370Chitwan Tigers 5 2 3 0 0 4 -0.185Biratnagar Warriors 5 2 3 0 0 4 -0.250Pokhara Rhinos 5 0 5 0 0 0 -0.627
League matches
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
Match 4
Match 5
Match 6
Match 7
Match 8
Statistics
+Most runsPlayerTeamRuns Ravi Inder SinghBhairahawa Gladiators337 Dipendra Singh AireeChitwan Tigers231 Gaurav TomarLalitpur Patriots229 Richard LeviPokhara Rhinos204 Jaiskishan KolsawalaLalitpur Patriots188 Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 December 2018
+Most wicketsPlayerTeamWickets Mohammad NaveedBhairahawa Gladiators12 Pawan SarrafLalitpur Patriots11 Pardeep SahuKathmandu Kings XI10 Sunny PatelLalitpur Patriots10 Lalit BhandariChitwan Tigers10 Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 December 2018
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