The 2025 Prime Minister Cup also known as Nepal Telecom PM Cup 2025 for sponsorship reasons, was the seventh edition of the Prime Minister One Day Cup, the premier one-day cricket tournament in Nepal. The tournament was contested by teams representing the seven Provinces of Nepal as well as three departmental teams. It was the first time Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) organized the tournament outside Kathmandu valley. It was begun on 9 March 2025 and played in three different venues across Lumbini Province, with 46 matches slated for play.
Nepal Police Club were the defending champions and successfully defended their title by defeating Tribhuwan Army Club in the final by 6 wickets, claiming the trophy for the fourth time.
Background The 7th edition of the tournament took place from March 9 to March 29, 2025, organised by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) and the National Sports Council. It followed a round-robin format with 10 teams (seven provincial and three departmental), and a total of 46 matches were played across three venues in Lumbini Province. Matches were held at Deukhuri International Cricket Stadium, Extratech Oval (Tilottama), and Siddhartha Cricket Stadium. The tournament was fully hosted outside of Kathmandu Valley for the first time, marking a shift in the country's cricketing landscape.
Squads Nepal APF Club Bagmati Province Gandaki Province Lumbini Province Karnali Province Rohit Paudel (c) Aasif Sheikh (wk) Sundeep Jora Abinash Bohara Bhuvan Karki Kamal Airee Kishor Mahato Lokesh Bam Mousom Dhakal Irshad Ahamad Amar Routela Dipak Bohara Puran BK Sumit Maharjan Abhisesh Gautam Prithu Baskota (c) Bipin Acharya Sonu Devkota Rijan Dhakal Rit Gautam Pratish GC Aashutosh Ghiraiya Shubh Kansakar Gautam KC Bibek Magar (wk) Ishan Pandey Shaurav Shakhakarmi Suman Sunar Surya Tamang Nandan Yadav Bipin Khatri (c) Sudip Aryal Dinesh Budhamagar Subash Bhandari Vansh Chhetri Rohit Chand Sujan Gautam Amrit Gurung Deepak Dumre (wk) Samir Kandel (wk) Arjun Kumal Sandeep Parajuli Kamal Pariyar Chandra Kanta Paudel Muskan Thapa Dev Khanal (c) Samrat Bhusal Ajay Chauhan Bir Gharti Mrinal Gurung Nirmal Gurung Krishna Karki Biparshan KC Salauddin Khan Ramesh Kurmi Nar Sarki Manish Thapa Prajjwol Thapa (wk) Sushant Thapa Akash Tripathi Diwan Pun (c) Dinesh Adhikari Anuj Chanara Sunil Dhamala Arjun Gharti (wk) Prakash Jaishi Bipin Rawal (wk) Dipendra Rawat Dinesh Rawat Nischal Rawal Bipin Sharma Himanshu Shahi Aditya Raj Shah Rabindra Shahi Unish Thakuri Koshi Province Madhesh Province Nepal Police Club Sudurpashchim Province Tribhuwan Army Club Ankit Subedi (c) Firdosh Ansari Sonu Ansari Aish Bhattarai Sandip Dhungana Suman Gahatraj Shakib Haq (wk) Prakash Karki Samir Karki Dipesh Kandel Shrawan Kisku Bhupal Luitel Bipin Mahato Chirag Sah (wk) Sujan Thapaliya Anil Sah (c) Rohan BK (wk) Dipesh Das Kamal Gupta Ranjit Kumar Pradeep Paswan Bishal Patel Pawan Sarraf Harishankar Shah Shailendra Sah Sunny Sah Nikhil Singh Rupesh Singh Rajesh Yadav Mayan Yadav Dipendra Singh Airee (c) Kushal Bhurtel Roshan Budal Sagar Dhakal Sunil Daulyal Gulsan Jha Karan KC Rashid Khan Dilip Nath Lalit Rajbanshi Shankar Rana Arjun Saud (wk) Ameet Shrestha Shrawan Yadav Sher Malla (c) Bikash Agri Rahul Bhandari Bhoj Raj Bhatta Sachin Bhatt Arjun BK Khadak Bohara Milan Bohara Sunil Chand Nischal Chhetri Hemant Dhami Prakash Pandey Tek Rawat (wk) Saurya Shrestha Kiran Thagunna Binod Bhandari (c) Basir Ahamad Shahab Alam Aakash Chand Trit Raj Das Anish Dhami Durgesh Gupta Sompal Kami Pawan Karki Santosh Karki (wk) Kushal Malla Naren Saud Bhim Sharki Imran Sheikh Bibek Yadav
Venue Nepal Lamahi Tilottama Siddharthanagar Deukhuri International Cricket Stadium Extratech Oval Siddhartha Cricket Stadium Capacity: 5,000 Capacity: 5,000+ Capacity: 2,500+
Team and standings Points table
Match summary
League stage CAN released the fixtures details on 21 February 2025.
Final
Statistics and awards Most runs Runs Player Team 374Arjun Kumal Gandaki Province 9 9 41.55 68.37 106 1 2 42 2365 Trit Raj Das Tribhuwan Army Club 10 10 40.55 68.73 112* 1 1 48 3363Ishan Pandey Bagmati Province 9 9 40.33 79.25 114 1 2 38 1338Basir Ahamad Tribhuwan Army Club 10 9 56.33 76.47 86* 0 3 28 3337Kiran Thagunna 9 9 48.14 106.64 121* 2 0 32 14 Source: ESPNcricinfo
Most wickets Player Team 41Lalit Rajbanshi Nepal Police Club 10 10 6/15 5.65 2.75 12.31 4 531Shahab Alam 10 10 5/42 11.2 3.58 18.61 4 123Rijan Dhakal Bagmati Province 9 9 5/19 14.00 4.30 19.52 1 222Dipendra Rawat Karnali Province 9 9 7/33 13.22 3.85 20.54 0 119Ajay Chauhan Lumbini Province 9 9 5/32 16.15 3.82 25.36 1 1Source: ESPNcricinfo
End of season awards Player of the series: Lalit Rajbanshi (Nepal Police Club) Best Batter: Arjun Kumal (Gandaki Province) Best Bowler: Lalit Rajbanshi (Nepal Police Club) Emerging Player: Trit Raj Das (Tribhuwan Army Club)
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