2024 Nepal Premier League

The 2024 Nepal Premier League (NPL), also known as Siddhartha Bank NPL 2024 for sponsorship reasons,^[1][2] was the inaugural season of the Nepal Premier League, a men's Twenty20 cricket league in Nepal.^[3][4] The tournament featured 8 teams competing in 32 matches from 30 November to 21 December 2024 (15 Mangsir to 6 Poush 2081 BS).^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

The auctions for team ownership was held on September 5, 2024. Pokhara was the most expensive team, costing over NPR 3,57,00,000.^[10] For the inaugural NPL season, each team had a salary cap of रू90 lakh (US$65,000) for domestic auction. Eight Marquee players were listed form draw on 14 September 2024.^[11][12] Sandeep Lamichhane, Kushal Malla, Aasif Sheikh, Sompal Kami, Karan KC, Rohit Paudel, Kushal Bhurtel and Dipendra Singh Airee were classified as Marquee players.

The player auction took place on 6 October 2024.^[13][14]

Teams	Head coach	Playing squads
Biratnagar Kings	Kevin O'Brien	Sandeep Lamichhane (c), Basir Ahamad, Ismat Alam, Lokesh Bam (wk), Dipak Bohara, Subash Bhandari, Naren Bhatt, Scott Edwards, Pratish GC, Mrinal Gurung, Martin Guptill, Nicholas Kirton, Aqib Ilyas, Anil Kharel, Kamal Khatri, Jitendra Mukhiya, Rajesh Pulami, Chris Sole
Chitwan Rhinos	Umesh Patwal	Kushal Malla (c), Kamal Singh Airee, Deepak Bohara, Rijan Dhakal, Basil Hameed, Marchant de Lange, Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton, Hassan Eisakhil, Santosh Karki, Luc Benkenstein, Gautam KC, Sallahuddin Khan, Ranjit Kumar, Bipin Rawal (wk), Ravi Bopara, Amar Routela, Nar Sarki, Dipesh Shrestha, Sohail Tanveer, Sharad Vesawkar
Janakpur Bolts	Pubudu Dassanayake	Anil Sah (c, wk), Hemant Dhami, Shubh Kansakar, Kishore Mahato, Sher Malla, Lahiru Milantha (wk), Ben Mike, Mohammad Mohsin, James Neesham, Sohaib Maqsood, Lalit Rajbanshi, Rupesh Singh, Aasif Sheikh (wk), Bishal Shusling, Tul Thapa, Harsh Thaker, Aakash Tripathi, Joshua Tromp, Arniko Yadav
Karnali Yaks	Gyanendra Malla	Sompal Kami (c), Will Bosisto, Mousom Dhakal, Shikhar Dhawan, Deepak Dumre, Rit Gautam, Arjun Gharti (wk), Babar Hayat, Gulshan Jha, Dev Khanal, Bhuvan Karki, Jaykishan Kolsawala, Zeeshan Maqsood, Dipendra Rawat, Bipin Sharma, Unish Singh, Hussain Talat, Nandan Yadav, Chadwick Walton (wk)
Kathmandu Gurkhas	Basanta Shahi	Karan KC (c), Shahab Alam, Dan Douthwaite, Gerhard Erasmus, Stephen Eskinazi, Dipesh Kandel, Krishna Karki, Krish Karki, Rashid Khan, Bibek KC, Michael Levitt, Sumit Maharjan, Shankar Rana, Raju Rijal (wk), Bhim Sharki, Pratik Shrestha, Nathan Sowter
Lumbini Lions	Nandan Phadnis	Rohit Paudel (c), Bikash Aagri, Dinesh Adhikari, Tilak Bhandari, Ben Cutting, Unmukt Chand, Abhishesh Gautam, Ashutosh Ghiraiya, Durgesh Gupta, Sundeep Jora, Aarif Khan, Tom Moores (wk), Arjun Saud (wk), Ramon Simmonds, Surya Tamang, Bibek Yadav, Saad Bin Zafar
Pokhara Avengers	Rajiv Kumar	Kushal Bhurtel (c), Sudip Aryal, Aakash Chand, Matt Critchley, Trit Raj Das, Sagar Dhakal, Sunam Gautam, Andries Gous (wk), Aakarshit Gomel, Amrit Gurung, Narayan Joshi, Dinesh Kharel, Bipin Khatri, Michael Leask, Bas de Leede, Zen Malik, Dilip Nath (wk), Anderson Phillip, Raymon Reifer, Harishankar Shah, Kiran Thagunna
Sudurpaschim Royals	Jagat Tamata	Dipendra Singh Airee (c), Binod Bhandari (wk), Bhoj Raj Bhatta, Dilpreet Bajwa, Abinash Bohara, Khadak Bohora, Naresh Budhayer, Basant Khatri, Arjun Kumal, Scott Kuggeleijn, Brandon McMullen, Rohan Mustafa, Ishan Pandey, Naren Saud, Aarif Sheikh, Amit Shrestha, Harmeet Singh, Saif Zaib

Maximum of 6 overseas players in squad and 4 overseas players in playing XI permitted.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Replaced during season
Biratnagar Kings	Ismat Alam	Martin Guptill	Aqib Ilyas	Nicholas Kirton	Chris Sole	Scott Edwards	—
Chitwan Rhinos	Basil Hameed	Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton	Hassan Eisakhil	Luc Benkenstein	Ravi Bopara	Sohail Tanveer	Marchant de Lange
Janakpur Bolts	Lahiru Milantha	Ben Mike	Mohammad Mohsin	James Neesham	Harsh Thaker	Joshua Tromp	Sohaib Maqsood
Karnali Yaks	Will Bosisto	Shikhar Dhawan	Babar Hayat	Zeeshan Maqsood	Chadwick Walton	Jaykishan Kolsawala	Hussain Talat
Kathmandu Gurkhas	Dan Douthwaite	Gerhard Erasmus	Stephen Eskinazi	Michael Levitt	Nathan Sowter
Lumbini Lions	Ben Cutting	Unmukt Chand	Tom Moores	Ramon Simmonds	Saad Bin Zafar
Pokhara Avengers	Matt Critchley	Andries Gous	Aakarshit Gomel	Michael Leask	Zen Malik	Raymon Reifer	Anderson Phillip Bas de Leede
Sudurpaschim Royals	Dilpreet Bajwa	Scott Kuggeleijn	Brandon McMullen	Harmeet Singh	Saif Zaib		Rohan Mustafa

Kirtipur, Kathmandu
TU International Cricket Ground
Capacity: 15,000+
Kathmandu 2024 Nepal Premier League (Nepal)

Before the start of league stage four practice matches were played at Mulpani Cricket Ground.

(C) = Eventual champion; (R) = Runner-up.

Below is a summary of results for each team's seven regular season matches, plus finals where applicable, in chronological order. A team's opponent for any given match is listed above the margin of victory/defeat.

The fixture was released on 18 November 2024.^[16][17]

Runs	Player	Team	Inns.	HS	Ave	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s
293	Lahiru Milantha	Janakpur Bolts	10	87	32.55	130.80	0	2	35	9
286	Ravi Bopara	Chitwan Rhinos	8	59*	40.85	135.54	0	3	24	11
279	Rohit Paudel	Lumbini Lions	7	95	39.85	131.60	0	2	26	11
275	Saif Zaib	Sudurpaschim Royals	9	90	30.55	136.13	0	2	24	12
247	James Neesham	Janakpur Bolts	9	65	35.28	196.03	0	1	14	23
Source: ESPNcricinfo

Wkts.	Player	Team	Inns.	Ov.	BBI	Ave	SR	Eco.	4WI	5WI
17	Scott Kuggeleijn	Sudupaschim Royals	9	28.5	5/18	10.43	12.35	7.28	0	1
17	Lalit Rajbanshi	Janakpur Bolts	10	40.0	3/8	12.37	12.52	5.32	0	0
14	Sohail Tanvir	Chitwan Rhinos	8	30.2	5/21	12.42	13.00	5.73	0	1
14	Kishore Mahato	Janakpur Bolts	10	33.0	3/10	18.92	14.14	8.03	0	0
13	Bipin Sharma	Karnali Yaks	8	29.0	3/17	13.15	13.38	5.89	0	0
Source: ESPNcricinfo

• List of Nepal Premier League records and statistics

• Tournament home at ESPNcricinfo