The 2021 Everest Premier League, also known as EPL4 or Bajaj Pulsar EPL for sponsorship reasons, was the fourth edition of the Everest Premier League, a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The event was initially scheduled for December 2019, before being postponed multiple times. Lalitpur Patriots were the defending champions, having won their first title in 2018, but were eliminated in the group stage after finishing fifth.
Background The fourth edition of the Everest Premier League was originally scheduled to be held from 8 to 22 December 2019, but was rescheduled to run from 29 February to 14 March 2020. but was rescheduled again, to run from 14 to 28 March 2020. On 5 March, the event was postponed again due to the coronavirus pandemic. In February 2021, the 2021 Everest Premier League dates were announced by the Cricket Association of Nepal as 25 September – 9 October 2021. The dates were chosen to coincide with the Vijayadashami festival in Nepal. All matches will be played at the Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground in Kathmandu.
The prize money for the competition has been doubled from the 2018 edition, and will be 5 million nepalese rupees (NPR). The runners-up will earn 1.5 million NPR.
Venues Kathmandu Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground Capacity: 25,000+
Squads Bhairahawa GladiatorsBiratnagar WarriorsChitwan TigersKathmandu Kings XILalitpur PatriotsPokhara Rhinos Tamim Iqbal Upul Tharanga Dhammika Prasad Sharvin Muniandy Sharad Vesawkar (c) Pradeep Airee Aarif Sheikh Rohit Kumar Paudel Bhuwan Karki Kushal Malla Abinash Bohara Krishna Karki Harishankar Shah Dipesh Shrestha Himanshu Dutta Bikash Agri Karan KC (c) Pratish GC Sikandar Raza Chandrapaul Hemraj Rayyan Pathan Dilshan Munaweera Basant Regmi Aasif Sheikh Anil Sah Sumit Maharjan Ramnaresh Giri Hari Bahadur Chauhan Anil Kharel Bikram Kumar Bhusal Saurav Khanal Mohammad Shahzad Seekkuge Prasanna Karim Janat Virandeep Singh Sompal Kami (c) Dilip Nath Lalit Bhandari Bhim Sharki Ishan Pandey Sandeep Sunar Kamal Singh Airee Shahab Alam Sagar Dhakal Aadil Khan Khadak Bohara Shahid Afridi Janak Prakash Ryan Burl Rahmanullah Gurbaz Ashan Priyanjan Dipendra Singh Airee Sandeep Lamichhane (c) Jitendra Mukhiya Subash Khakurel Amrit Bhattarai Amit Shrestha Raju Rijal M Samsad Sheikh Amar Singh Routela Akash Chand Sher Malla Dipendra Rawat Azmatullah Omarzai Ranjung Mikyo Dorji Oshada Fernando Sandun Weerakkody Jaykishan Kolsawala Lalit Rajbanshi Pawan Sarraf Sundeep Jora Kushal Bhurtel (c) Shankar Rana Sonu Tamang Rashid Khan Yogendra Singh Karki Surya Tamang Kesrick Williams Sahan Arachchige Asela Gunaratne Richard Levi Binod Bhandari (c) Prithu Baskota Sunil Dhamala Sushan Bhari Kishore Mahato Bikram Sob Bipin Khatri Nandan Yadav Rit Gautam Lokesh Bam Dev khanal Bipin Rawal Source: Yahoo! Sports
Points table
The top four teams qualify for the playoffs. advance to Qualifier 1. advance to Eliminator.
League matches
The schedule was published on 8 September 2021.
Playoff stage
Preliminary Qualifier 1
Eliminator
Qualifier 2
Final
References
External links
Series home at ESPNcricinfo