This is a list of Nepalese first-class cricketers. First-class cricket matches are those between international teams or the highest standard of domestic teams in which teams have two innings each. Generally, matches are eleven players a side but there have been exceptions.
Today all matches must be scheduled to have at least three days' duration; historically, matches were played to a finish with no pre-defined time span.
This list is not limited to those who have played first-class cricket for Nepal and may include Nepalese players who played their first-class cricket elsewhere. The players are listed alphabetically by their last name.
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Name | Career Span | Mat | Batting | Bowling | Fielding | Team(s) | Ref(s) | ||||||||
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Inn | Runs | HS | Avg | Balls | Wkt | BBI | BBM | Ave | Ca | St | |||||
Mehboob Alam | 2004–2005 | 4 | 7 | 98 | 34 | 14.00 | 414 | 12 | 3/25 | 6/57 | 14.83 | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [5] |
Manoj Baishya | 2005–2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4.00 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | Nepal | [6] |
Raju Basnyat | 2004–2005 | 4 | 4 | 40 | 23 | 20.00 | 258 | 5 | 3/27 | 3/27 | 22.00 | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [7] |
Dhirendra Chand | 2005–2005 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 201 | 7 | 2/12 | 4/39 | 13.00 | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [8] |
Dipendra Chaudhary | 2004–2005 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 9 | 5.00 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | Nepal | [9] |
Kanishka Chaugai | 2005–2005 | 2 | 3 | 101 | 48 | 33.66 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | Nepal | [10] |
Bikash Dali | 2004–2004 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7.00 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [11] |
Binod Das | 2004–2005 | 3 | 4 | 56 | 17 | 28.00 | 566 | 19 | 6/29 | 7/37 | 11.42 | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [12] |
Shakti Gauchan | 2004–2005 | 4 | 6 | 171 | 69* | 34.20 | 252 | 5 | 2/18 | 4/37 | 21.40 | 5 | 0 | Nepal | [13] |
Manoj Katuwal | 2004–2004 | 2 | 3 | 40 | 24 | 20.00 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | Nepal | [14] |
Paras Khadka | 2004–2005 | 2 | 2 | 72 | 44 | 36.00 | 60 | 1 | 1/19 | 1/19 | 21.00 | 4 | 0 | Nepal | [15] |
Raju Khadka | 2004–2004 | 2 | 3 | 75 | 67 | 25.00 | 56 | 3 | 2/17 | 2/34 | 18.66 | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [16] |
Paresh Lohani | 2004–2005 | 4 | 7 | 133 | 49 | 22.16 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | Nepal | [17] |
Raj Pradhan | 2004–2005 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2.50 | 314 | 5 | 2/23 | 3/35 | 33.40 | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [18] |
Sanjam Regmi | 2004–2004 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 8* | 13.00 | 432 | 7 | 3/25 | 5/61 | 24.71 | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [19] |
Sharad Vesawkar | 2004–2019 | 5 | 8 | 189 | 89 | 27.00 | 84 | 2 | 2/35 | 2/35 | 20.00 | 3 | 0 | Nepal | [20] |
Sompal Kami | 2015–2019 | 3 | 3 | 77 | 51 | 25.66 | 336 | 6 | 2/8 | 3/102 | 41.50 | 2 | 0 | Saracens | [21] |
Aarif Sheikh | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 29 | 19 | 14.50 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [22] |
Dipendra Singh | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.50 | 6 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [23] |
Binod Bhandari | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 36 | 18.00 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [24] |
Karan KC | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 18 | 10.00 | 186 | 6 | 3/45 | 6/112 | 18.66 | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [25] |
Sandeep Lamichhane | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 64 | 39* | 64.00 | 216 | 3 | 3/84 | 3/134 | 44.66 | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [26] |
Gyanendra Malla | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 3.00 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [27] |
Lalit Rajbanshi | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0* | 0.00 | 96 | 1 | 1/6 | 1/66 | 66.00 | 1 | 0 | Nepal | [28] |
Raju Rijal | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 39 | 31 | 19.50 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 2 | 0 | Nepal | [29] |
Pawan Sarraf | 2019–2019 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1.00 | 54 | 1 | 1/28 | 1/64 | 64.00 | 0 | 0 | Nepal | [30] |
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