Dates | 14 May 2014 – 24 May 2014 |
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Cricket format | One-day |
Tournament format(s) | Round-robin and Knockout |
Host(s) | Nepal |
Champions | Panchakanya Tej (1st title) |
Participants | 6 |
Matches | 18 |
Player of the series | Bhuwan Karki (Panchakanya Tej) |
Most runs | Pradeep Airee (212) (Kantipur Gurkhas) |
Most wickets | Bhuwan Karki (14) (Panchakanya Tej) |
The 2014 Nepal Premier League was the first season of the Nepal Premier League. The event was organised by the Cricket Association of Nepal and managed by Zohra Sports Management. [1] It was organised between May and June 2014 and consisted of a One Day tournament played in round-robin format followed by semi-finals and finals between the top four teams. [2] Initially, the 2014 NPL was also supposed to include Twenty20 & Two Day tournaments [3] but were later called off. Two-day tournament was called off by the organising committee due to bad weather conditions in the allocated venues amongst other reasons. [4] Due to tight international schedule, ZSM was unable to complete the Twenty20 event, while telecommunication giants Ncell had also pulled out their sponsorship from the tournament. [5] The Twenty20 & Two Day tournaments are expected to be included from the 2015 season onwards.
The One Day tournament of the 2014 season ran between 14 and 24 May. The venues for One Day tournament were Kailali and Kanchanpur.
Panchakanya Tej were the winners of the One Day tournament after defeating Jagdamba Giants in the final held at Fapla Cricket Ground, Dhangadi, Kailali. [6]
The League was unveiled on 24 February in a press conference held in Hotel Radisson, Kathmandu. Zohra Sports Management and Cricket Association of Npal have done an exclusive agreement to run the league for an initial three years. [7]
Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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Panchakanya Tej | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +1.078 |
Sagarmatha Legends | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +0.210 |
Jagdamba Giants | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | +0.017 |
Kantipur Gurkhas | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | +0.348 |
Colors X-Factors | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.768 |
Vishal Warriors | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -0.804 |
Vishal Warriors | Colors X-Factors | Jagdamba Giants | Panchakanya Tej | Kantipur Gurkhas | Sagarmatha Legends |
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[NTC] Nepal are the main sponsors of the NPL 2014 along with Zohra Sports Management. [8] [9]
The inaugural match of the One Day tournament was played on 14 May 2014 at the Fapla Cricket Ground, Dhangadi, Kailali between Vishal Warriors and Sagarmatha Legends.
Vishal Warriors 135 all out (33.3 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 242 all out (49.3 overs) |
Raju Rijal 37 (56) Ramnaresh Giri 3-49 (10 overs) | Binod Bhandari 98 (71) Nischal Pandey 3-37 (9 overs) |
Jagdamba Giants 213/9 (50 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 162 all out (42.3 overs) |
Colors X-Factors 180/9 (50 overs) | v | Vishal Warriors 181/5 (48.1 overs) |
Gyanendra Malla 77 (128) Ramnaresh Giri 4-42 (10 overs) | Dipesh Khatri 50 (65) Kumar Thapa 2-31 (9 overs) |
Kantipur Gurkhas 287/9 (50 overs) | v | Colors X-Factors 104 all out (25 overs) |
Pradeep Airee 67 (62) Amar Singh Routela 3-55 (10 overs) | Fazlur Rehman Khan 38 (30) Lalit Singh Bhandari 3-12 (5 overs) |
Panchakanya Tej 205/5 (40 overs) | v | Jagdamba Giants 179 all out (38.1 overs) |
Sharad Vesawkar 57*(48) Shuvankar Sanyasi 2-38 (8 overs) | Prem Tamang 28 (22) Bhuwan Karki 3-29 (8 overs) |
Panchakanya Tej 208 all out (50 overs) | v | Vishal Warriors 75 all out (22.4 overs) |
Puspa Thapa 35 (62) Sushan Bhari 2-14 (10 overs) | Manjeet Shrestha 12 (9) Dipendra Airee 4-34 (9.4 overs) |
Kantipur Gurkhas 179 all out (38.5 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 183/5 (33.4 overs) |
Surendra Chand 57 (80) Chandra Sawad 3-44 (8 overs) | Binod Bhandari 35 (34) Aakash Bista 3-42 (8 overs) |
Vishal Warriors 138/9 (50 overs) | v | Jagdamba Giants 139/4 (34.3 overs) |
Suraj Kurmi 38 (114) Shakti Gauchan 3-15 (10 overs) | Hasim Ansari 50 (54) Paras Khadka 3-38 (9 overs) |
Sagarmatha Legends 105 all out (38.3 overs) | v | Colors X-Factors 109/6 (27.3 overs) |
Gyanendra Malla 36 (34) Nischal Pandey 4-30 (10 overs) |
Panchakanya Tej 276/9 (50 overs) | v | Colors X-Factors 120 all out (34.3 overs) |
Puspa Thapa 91 (94) Faijlur Rahman Khan 3-21 (4 overs) |
Jagdamba Giants 201 all out (49 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 188 all out (49 overs) |
Amit Shrestha 60 (100) Basanta Regmi 4-40 (10 overs) | Pradeep Airee 78 (94) Nizamuddin Ansari 5-33 (10 overs) |
Vishal Warriors 99/2 (19.5 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 95 all out (29.3 overs) |
Raju Rijal 36 (64) Aakash Gupta 1-7 (3 overs) | Aakash Bista 24* (25) Sushan Bhari 6-35 (8.3 overs) |
Panchakanya Tej 84 all out (27.1 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 85/8 (27.3 overs) |
Sunny Pun 18 (19) Rahul Vishwakarma 3-6 (4 overs) |
Jagdamba Giants 136 all out (43.2 overs) | v | Colors X-Factors 139/9 (26.2 overs) |
Hasim Ansari 37 (56) Sanjam Regmi 3-17 (6.2 overs) | Fazlur Rehman Khan 56 (27) Sompal Kami 4-37 (9 overs) |
Panchakanya Tej 127 all out (38.2 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 131/5 (28.2 overs) |
Indrakamal Manandhar 37 (88) Aakash Gupta 4-21 (5 overs) |
Semifinals | Final | ||||||||
2 | Sagarmatha Legends | 136/9 (42.5 overs) (D/L) | |||||||
3 | Jagdamba Giants | 193/8 (50 overs) | |||||||
Jagdamba Giants | 103 all out (31.4 overs) | ||||||||
Panchakanya Tej | 200 all out (50 overs) | ||||||||
1 | Panchakanya Tej | 119/5 (29.5 overs) | |||||||
4 | Kantipur Gurkhas | 116 all out (40.3 overs) |
Jagdamba Giants 193/8 (50 overs) | v | Sagarmatha Legends 136/9 (42.5 overs) |
Bhupendra Thapa 57 (105) Rahul Vishwakarma 2-29 (10 overs) | Rupesh Srivastav 47 (56) Nijamuddin Ansari 4-20 (10 overs) |
Panchakanya Tej 119/5 (29.5 overs) | v | Kantipur Gurkhas 116 all out (40.3 overs) |
Sunny Pun 37 (82) Basanta Regmi 3-15 (9 overs) |
Jagdamba Giants 103 all out (31.4 overs) | v | Panchakanya Tej 200 all out (50 overs) |
Sanjay Shrestha 74 (77) Shuvankar Sanyasi 3-31 (10 overs) |
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