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2018 Everest Premier League

Dates	8 – 22 December 2018
Administrator(s)	EPL Pvt Ltd
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Single round robin and playoffs
Host(s)	Nepal
Champions	Lalitpur Patriots (1st title)
Participants	6
Matches	19
Player of the series	Divyam Adhikari (Gladiators)
Most runs	Ravi Inder Singh (337)[1]
Most wickets	Saujan Ghimire (Gladiators) (12)
Official website	eplt20.com.np
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The 2018 Everest Premier League, also known as EPL3 or 2018 TVS EPL because of the sponsorship reason, was the third edition of the Everest Premier League, a professional men's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition in Nepal. The tournament was held from 8 December 2018 to 22 December 2018. Biratnagar Warriors were defending champions for the tournament but they were eliminated in the group stage. Lalitpur Patriots won the 2018 season and it's their first title.

Players Release and Bidding

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The players release and bidding process was held on 11 November 2018 and broadcast live on the official Facebook page of EPL in the presence of Raman Shiwakoti, chief of EPL technical committee and the manager of Nepal men's national cricket team. In the player release and bidding process, each team could release maximum of three players and they could bid for the released players as well as the unsold players and the players who did not register for 2017 EPL auction. Hari Chauhan was the most bidded player (NPR 85,000) in the process by Biratnagar Warriors. Tigers acquired Sagar Dhakal and Adil Khan. Kings XI brought in Samsaad Sheikh while Rhinos secured Shubhendu Pandey and Nandan Yadav. Gladiators did not bid and Patriots did not release any players.

TU International Cricket Ground is the host for all matches of the tournament

The marquee players from the 2017 Everest Premier League were retained by their respective teams as a part of a three year agreement.[2] The franchise teams are obliged to select at least three foreign players and one local player from the talent hunt program as per the Everest Premier League regulation.

Bhairahawa Gladiators	Biratnagar Warriors	Chitwan Tigers	Kathmandu Kings XI	Lalitpur Patriots	Pokhara Rhinos
Sharad Vesawkar (c) Pradeep Airee Aarif Sheikh Rohit Kumar Paudel Bhuwan Karki Krishna Karki Prakash KC Anil Kharel Kushal Malla Harishankar Shah Dipesh Shrestha Bhupendra Thapa Ryan Ten Doeschate Mohammad Naveed Ravi Inder Singh Puneet Mehra	Paras Khadka (c) Karan KC Basant Regmi Anil Sah Aasif Sheikh Aakash Bista Hari Bahadur Chauhan Ramnaresh Giri Dipesh Kandel Pranit Thapa Magar Sumit Maharjan Puspa Thapa Babar Hayat Paul van Meekeren Roelof van der Merwe Smit Patel	Prithu Baskota (c) Dipendra Airee Lalit Bhandari Dilip Nath Bhim Sharki Kamal Singh Airee Shahab Alam Sagar Dhakal Aadil Khan Ishan Pandey Sandeep Sunar Aakash Thapa Paul Stirling John Simpson George Scott	Sompal Kami (c) Naresh Budhayer Siddhant Lohani Jitendra Mukhiya Sagar Pun Raju Rijal Bikram Bhusal Amar Singh Routela Samshad Sheikh Amit Shrestha Nitesh Thapa Puran Vishwakarma Subramanian Anand Rohan Mustafa Kevin O'Brien Pardeep Sahu	Gyanendra Malla (c) Sundeep Jora Sandeep Lamichhane Lalit Rajbanshi Pawan Sarraf Kushal Bhurtel Sumit Jha Narayan Joshi Yogendra Singh Karki Rashaid Khan Shankar Rana Sonu Tamang Jaykishan Kolsawala Sunny Patel Gourav Tomar	Shakti Gauchan Binod Bhandari Sushan Bhari Sunil Dhamala Rajesh Pulami Magar Saurabh Khanal Bipin Khatri Kishore Mahato Shubhendu Pandey Dev Shah Bikram Sob Nandan Yadav Kyle Coetzer (c) Sunny Bhimsaria Paul Coughlin Richard Levi

International players are listed along with their respective flag.
M stands for marquee player.

Team	M	W	L	Points	NRR
Lalitpur Patriots	5	4	1	8	+1.747
Kathmandu Kings XI	5	4	1	8	-0.279
Bhairahawa Gladiators	5	3	2	6	-0.370
Chitwan Tigers	5	2	3	4	-0.185
Biratnagar Warriors	5	2	3	4	-0.250
Pokhara Rhinos	5	0	5	0	-0.627

The four top ranked teams will qualify for the playoffs
advanced to Qualifier 1
advanced to the Eliminator
Patriots elected to bat first

Patriots elected to bat first

Rhinos, elected to bat first

Kings XI, elected to bowl first

Patriots won by 8 wickets
TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur
Umpires: Sanjay Gurung and Hiralal Raut
Player of the match: Gaurav Tomar (Patriots)

Rhinos, elected to bat first

Warriors, elected to field first

Tigers, elected to field first

Gladiators, elected to field first

Player	Team	Mat	Inns	Runs	Ave	SR	HS	100	50
Ravi Inder Singh	Bhairahawa Gladiators	8	8	337	56.16	148.45	125*	1	1
Dipendra Singh Airee	Chitwan Tigers	6	6	231	46.20	112.68	56	0	2
Gaurav Tomar	Lalitpur Patriots	7	7	229	38.16	157.93	82	0	2
Richard Levi	Pokhara Rhinos	4	4	204	51.00	196.15	84	0	2
Jaiskishan Kolsawala	Lalitpur Patriots	7	7	188	37.60	99.47	57	0	2

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 December 2018

Player	Team	Mat	Inns	Wkts	Ave	Econ	BBI	SR
Mohammad Naveed	Bhairahawa Gladiators	6	6	12	10.83	5.65	4/14	11.5
Pawan Sarraf	Lalitpur Patriots	7	6	11	13.18	6.59	3/13	12.0
Pardeep Sahu	Kathmandu Kings XI	6	6	10	10.40	4.72	3/11	13.2
Sunny Patel	Lalitpur Patriots	7	7	10	13.90	5.14	5/12	16.2
Lalit Bhandari	Chitwan Tigers	6	6	10	17.00	8.03	4/24	12.7

Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 December 2018

^ "Most runs". stats.espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
^ "Airee drafted in as one of the six 'marquees'". kathmandupost.ekantipur.com. Retrieved 16 December 2018.

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