Cricket

Nepal T20 League is all for the September 24 start, with the six franchises completing their draft picks. The teams will compete in a double round-robin format over 29 days at the Tribhuvan University cricket ground.  

Biratnagar Super Kings, Far Western United, Janakpur Royals, Kathmandu Gorkhas, Lumbini All Stars and Pokhara Avengers are the teams in the fray for the inaugural edition of the league event. 

Under the competition rules, each team can have 16 players on the roster, 11 of which have to be Nepalis and five foreigners. They are allowed to field a maximum of four foreign players in the playing eleven.

The auctions were held over two days by dividing players into three categories: A, B and C. 

Nepali players carried price tags of Rs1.5 million, Rs1 million, and Rs500,000, while their counterparts from overseas were listed at $40,000, $20,000, $12,500 respectively.

The first round of draft held on Saturday saw Pokhara Avengers splash out big, securing services of two marquee players- Mohammad Asif Sheikh and Sharad Veswakar. Other teams opted for only one big name player.

The Gorkhas signed Gyanendra Malla, while the Super Kings went for Rohit Paudel, Far Western United brought in Karan KC, Lumbini All Stars drafted in DS Airee and Janakpur Royals roped in Sompal Kami.

The second and final draft was held on Sunday when the teams completed their roster.

Teams draft picks

Janakpur Royals

Sompal Kami (Marquee),  Sandeep Jora(B), Adil Alam(B), Dilip Nath(B), Lalit Rajbansi(B), Sushan Bhari(C), Sagar Pun(C), Pawan Sarraf(C), Jitendra Mukhiya(C), Khadak Bohora(C), Rajesh Pulami(C)

Overseas: Adam Lyth(A), Trevor Abishai Griffth(B), Ibrahim Zadran(B), Raj Rocky Nannan(C), Subhashinge Priyanja(C)

Kathmandu Gorkhas

Gyanendra Malla (Marquee), Lokesh Bam(B), Basir Ahamad(B), Kamal Singh Airee(B), Avinash Bohora(B),Anil Kharel(C), Saurabh Khanal(C), Sandeep Rajali(C), Santosh Karki(C), Sunam Gautam(C), Gautam KC(C)

Overseas: Thisara Perera(A), Darshanpriya Weerakkody(B), Kamindu Mendis(C), Virandeep Singh(C), Dhananjaya De Silva(B)

Lumbini All Stars

Dipendra Singh Airee (Marquee), Anil Kumar Sah(B), Kushal Bhurtel(B), Gulshan Jha(B), Sagar Dhakal(B), Yogendra Singh Karki(C), Kishore Mahato(C), Tilak Raj Bhandari(C), Sunil Dhamala(C), Aakash Chand(C), Ishan Pandey(C)

Overseas: Ben Cutting(A), Rakheem Cornwall(B), Pat Brown(B), Bipul Sha(rma(C), Lahiru Milantha(C), Nuwan Tushara(C)

Biratnagar Super Kings

Rohit Paudel (Marquee), Arjun Saud(B), Bibek Yadav(B), Nandan Yadav(B), Sahab Alam(B),  Amar Singh Routela(C), Pradeep Airee(C), Narayan Joshi(C), Surya Tamang(C), Prithul Baskota(C), Rijan Dhakal(C)

Overseas: Angelo Mathews(A), Joshua Persaud(B), Andre McCarthy(B), Gauranshu Sharma(C), Minod Ranasinghe(C), Keon Joseph(C)

Far Western United

Karan Kc (Marquee), Binod Bhandari(B), Bhim Sharki(B), Dev Khanal(B), Rashid Khan(B), Durgesh Gupta(C), Bhuwan Karki(C), Hari Shankar Shah(C), Sher Malla(C), Basant Karki(C), Prakash Jaisi(C), Hashim Ansari(C)

Overseas: Carlos Braithwaite(A), Dushan Hemantha(C), Puluna Tharanga(C), Jason Mohammad(C), Allah Ghazanfar(C), Zia-ul Rehman(C)

Pokhara Avengers

Aasif Sheikh (Marquee), Sharad Veswakar(A), Kushal Malla(B), Pratish GC(B), Aarif Sheikh(B), Tul Bahadur Thapa(C), Bishal Bikram KC(C), Krishna Karki(C), Bipin Khatri(C), Sumit Maharjan(C), Siddhant Lohani(C)

Overseas: Mohammed Hafeez(A), Seekuge Prasanna(B), Niroshan Dickwella(B), Salman Irshad(C), Shehan Madhushanka(C)