2025 Nepal Premier League

2025 Nepal Premier League

Dates	17 November – 13 December 2025
Administrator	Cricket Association of Nepal
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and playoffs
Participants	8
Matches	36
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The 2025 Nepal Premier League, also known as Siddhartha Bank NPL 2025 for sponsorship reasons, ^[1] will be the second season of the Nepal Premier League (NPL), a men's Twenty20 cricket league in Nepal. ^{[2] [3]} The tournament will feature 8 teams competing in 36 matches from 17 November to 13 December 2025. ^{[4] [5]}

Background

The Nepal Premier League (NPL) is a men's T20 franchise cricket league organised by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). It was established in 2024, with its inaugural season held that year. The league features eight city/province-based franchises competing in a round-robin followed by playoffs. Janakpur Bolts claimed the maiden title, defeating Sudurpaschim Royals in the final. ^{[6] [7]} The 2025 NPL, the league’s second edition, is scheduled for November–December 2025, pending ICC approval. ^[8]

Teams

Team	Captain	Head coach
Biratnagar Kings	Sandeep Lamichhane
Chitwan Rhinos	Kushal Malla	Kalam Ali [9]
Karnali Yaks	Sompal Kami	Gyanendra Malla [10]
Kathmandu Gorkhas	Karan KC	Monty Desai [11] [12]
Janakpur Bolts	Aasif Sheikh	Shivnarine Chanderpaul [13]
Lumbini Lions	Rohit Paudel
Pokhara Avengers	Kushal Bhurtel
Sudurpaschim Royals	Dipendra Singh Airee	Jagat Tamata

Auction and personnel changes

The franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 5 July 2025, and a total of 51 players were retained ahead of the auction. ^{[14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21]} The auction was held on 9 August 2025 in Kathmandu, Nepal. ^[22] A total of 458 players registered for the auction, of which 150 players were shortlisted ^[23] and 37 were sold. ^[24]

Dev Khanal, Arjun Saud, Pawan Sarraf and Mohammad Aadil Alam became the most expensive players in the auction, bought at the price of रू 15 lakh (US$11,000). ^[25] Mohammad Aadil Alam was bid upon by all eight franchises. ^[26]

Squads

The player auction took place on 9 August 2025. ^{[27] [25]}

Biratnagar Kings	Chitwan Rhinos	Janakpur Bolts	Karnali Yaks
Sandeep Lamichhane (c) Basir Ahamad Lokesh Bam (wk) Subash Bhandari Naren Bhatta Faf du Plessis Martin Guptill Pratish GC Sam Heazlett Narayan Joshi Shrawan Kisku George Munsey Sahil Patel (wk) Shankar Rana Surya Tamang	Kushal Malla (c) Bipin Acharya Kamal Singh Airee Deepak Bohara Ravi Bopara Rijan Dhakal Gautam KC Dev Khanal Ranjeet Kumar Dawid Malan Alpesh Ramjani Amar Rautela Bipin Rawal (wk) Arjun Saud (wk) Sohail Tanvir	Anil Sah (c, wk) Bikash Aagri Sachin Bhatta Shubh Kansakar Aaditya Mahata Kishore Mahato Lahiru Milantha (wk) Wayne Parnell Lalit Rajbanshi Aasif Sheikh (wk) Rupesh Singh Tul Thapa Mayan Yadav	Sompal Kami (c) Will Bosisto Deepak Dumre (wk) Arjun Gharti (wk) Gulshan Jha Yuvraj Khatri Max O'Dowd Dipendra Rawat Pawan Sarraf Bipin Sharma Imran Sheikh Unish Thakuri Mark Watt Nandan Yadav
Kathmandu Gorkhas	Lumbini Lions	Pokhara Avengers	Sudurpaschim Royals
Karan KC (c) Mohammad Aadil Alam Shahab Alam Ben Charlesworth Gerhard Erasmus Dipesh Kandel Milind Kumar Rashid Khan Uttam Magar (wk) Bhim Sharki John Simpson(wk) Pratik Shrestha Aakash Tripathi Tul B Thapa Ricardo Vasconcelos (wk) Santosh Yadav	Rohit Paudel (c) Dinesh Adhikari Tilak Bhandari Thomas Draca Abhishesh Gautam Durgesh Gupta Sundeep Jora Aadil Khan Sher Malla Dilip Nath (wk) Bishal Patel D'Arcy Short Bibek Yadav	Kushal Bhurtel (c) Aakash Chand Sandeep Chhetri Trit Raj Das Sagar Dhakal Dinesh Kharel Bipin Khatri Arjun Kumal Krishna Poudel Adam Rossington (wk) Kiran Thagunna Abhisekh Tiwari	Dipendra Singh Airee (c) Binod Bhandari (wk) Abinash Bohara Dipak Bohara (wk) Milan Bohara Hemant Dhami Scott Kuggeleijn Chris Lynn Ishan Pandey Tek Rawat (wk) Naren Saud Harmeet Singh Aarif Sheikh Dipendra Thapa (wk) Josh Brown

Venue

The Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground

All matches will be played at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground at Kirtipur in Kathmandu.

Teams and standings

Points table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	Biratnagar Kings	0	0	0	0	0	—	Advance to Qualifier 1
2	Chitwan Rhinos	0	0	0	0	0	—
3	Janakpur Bolts	0	0	0	0	0	—	Advance to Eliminator
4	Karnali Yaks	0	0	0	0	0	—
5	Kathmandu Gorkhas	0	0	0	0	0	—
6	Lumbini Lions	0	0	0	0	0	—
7	Pokhara Avengers	0	0	0	0	0	—
8	Sudurpaschim Royals	0	0	0	0	0	—

First match(es) will be played: 17 November 2025. Source: ^{[ citation needed ]}

Practice matches

Before the start of league stage, there will be four or eight practice matches at Mulpani Cricket Ground.

Practice matches

Practice match 1 November 2025 (2025-11) UTC+05:45 12:15 Karnali Yaks v Kathmandu Gurkhas Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Practice match 2 November 2025 (2025-11) UTC+05:45 12:15 Chitwan Rhinos v Sudurpaschim Royals Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Practice match 3 November 2025 (2025-11) UTC+05:45 12:15 Janakpur Bolts v Lumbini Lions Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara Practice match 4 November 2025 (2025-11) UTC+05:45 12:15 Pokhara Avengers v Biratnagar Kings Mulpani International Cricket Ground, Kageshwari-Manohara

Playoffs

All times are in Nepal Standard Time (UTC+05:45).

Bracket

Qualifier 1

Qualifier 2

Final

10 December 2025 – Kirtipur

13 December 2025 – Kirtipur

1

TBC

Q1W

TBC

2

TBC

11 December 2025 – Kirtipur

Q2W

TBC

Q1L

TBC

Eliminator

EW

TBC

10 December 2025 – Kirtipur

3

TBC

4

TBC

Eliminator

Eliminator 10 December 2025 9:00 NST

	v

Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

Qualifier 1

Qualifier 1 10 December 2025 15:45 NST

	v

Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

Qualifier 2

Qualifier 2 11 December 2025 15:45 NST

	v

Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

Final

Final 13 December 2025 15:45 NST

	v

Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur

References

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