2020 Everest Premier League

The 2020 Everest Premier League, also known as EPL4 or Tvs EPL for sponsorship reasons, will be the fourth edition[1] of the Everest Premier League, is a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The tournament was supposed to be held from 8 to 22 December 2019, was rescheduled to run from 29 February to 14 March 2020,[2] 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.[3] Lalitpur Patriots are the defending champions, having won their first title in 2018.

2020 Everest Premier League
Administrator(s)EPL Pvt. Ltd.
Cricket formatTwenty20
Tournament format(s)Single round robin and playoffs
Host(s)   Nepal
Participants6
Matches played19
Official websiteeplt20.com.np

Personnel changes

All foreign players contesting EPL will remain exclusive to the league. Any team can offer any price for any of these players and if the team that currently owns the player agrees on the amount, the player can be sold. The amount the player is bought or sold is confidential. Window for players release for the players not in Category A is 11 – 23 January. Each team can only put their "Category A Player" (as defined by the EPL Committee) up for trade.

Venues
Kathmandu
Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground
Capacity: 15,000
TU International Cricket Ground is the host for all matches of the tournament.

Personnel and sponsorship
Team Head coach Captain Physio Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor (chest) Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
Bhairahawa Gladiators Pubudu Dassanayake Dr. Puran Tiruwa T10 Sports Sagarmatha Cement
Biratnagar Warriors T10 Sports NIC Asia Bank
Chitwan Tigers T10 Sports Old Durbar
Kathmandu Kings XI Binod Das Sagar Pandey T10 Sports Colors
Lalitpur Patriots Raju Basnyet T10 Sports Nepal Investment Bank
Pokhara Rhinos T10 Sports Jagadamba

Teams
Bhairahawa Gladiators Biratnagar Warriors Chitwan Tigers Kathmandu Kings XI Lalitpur Patriots Pokhara Rhinos
  • Foreign players are listed along with their respective flag.
  • M stands for marquee player.
  • C stands for Captain.

Points table
Team M W L T NR Points NRR Advanced to
Bhairahawa Gladiators000000 Advanced to

Qualifier-1

Biratnagar Warriors000000
Chitwan Tigers000000 Advanced to

Eliminator

Kathmandu Kings XI000000
Lalitpur Patriots000000
Pokhara Rhinos000000
  • The four top ranked teams will qualify for the playoffs.
  •   advanced to Qualifier 1.
  •   advanced to the Eliminator.

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

References
  1. "Everest Premier League (EPL) Fourth Edition to Kick Off From March 2020!". Nepali Sansar. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  2. "Bigger, Bumper, Better EPL in 2020". MoMo Cricket. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  3. "Everest Premier League 2020 postponed due to coronavirus threat". Emerging Cricket. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
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