The 2017 Everest Premier League, also abbreviated as 2017 EPL, and branded as TVS EPL 2017, was the second edition of the

Everest Premier League Everest Premier League (EPL) () was a franchise Twenty20 cricket tournament organized by EPL Pvt. Ltd., a private group in Nepal. It was the biggest cricket tournament in the country, played during the northern winter calendar, mostly in the ...

, a professional men's domestic

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competition in

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. The tournament was scheduled to be held from 18 December 2017 to 30 December 2017. The tournament featured six teams and their names were based on the cities. Biratnagar Warriors were undefeated throughout the tournament. They became champions after defeating Bhairahawa Gladiators by 1 run in the final.

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became player of the series for scoring highest runs and hitting most sixes in the tournament. Rohit Kumar Paudel was awarded as most valuable player for finishing well in some matches for Bhairahawa Gladiators.

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and Basant Regmi were leading wicket takers in the tournament with 12 wickets.

Background

EPL Pvt Ltd announced the second season of the

on 30 July 2017 at

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. The founder of EPL, Aamir Akhtar disclosed the prize money of 2.1 million rupees to the winner of the tournament. He also announced that the name of the franchise teams will be based on the cities rather than the corporate houses. The logo of the tournament was also unveiled on the ceremony by the Nepalese national team captain,

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and the head coach Jagat Tamatta.

Player Auctions

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and Sharad Vesawkar were selected as marquee players by each teams before the auction. Each teams were allowed to spend Rs. 1 million. The

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was held on 23 October 2017 and 60 players(10 to each teams), categorized as A, B and C were sold to the

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and

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were the expensive players in the auction with the highest bid of Rs.175,000.

Venues

Teams

Each team consisted of 15 players. 10 players were bought by each teams through auction. A talent hunt was conducted by each teams in their respective cities to acquire a young player in their squad. Similarly, the teams also included at least three foreign players in their side. * Foreign players are listed in bold. * Players selected from the talent hunt are listed in ''italics''.

Points table

* The four top ranked teams will qualify for the playoffs * advanced to Qualifier 1 * advanced to the Eliminator * Eliminated

League matches

Match 1

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Match 2

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Match 3

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Match 4

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Match 5

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Match 6

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Match 7

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Match 8

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Match 9

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Match 10

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Match 11

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Match 12

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Match 13

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Match 14

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Match 15

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Playoff stage

Preliminary

Qualifier 1

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Eliminator

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Qualifier 2

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Final

Statistics

Most runs

* Source: Cricinfo

Most wickets

* Source: Cricinfo

References

External links

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News, Views, Scorecard, Match Reports of Everest Premier League 2017
*https://wicketnepal.com/everest-premier-leagues-fixture-announced-wn017/ {{Everest Premier League Everest Premier League 2017 in Nepalese cricket