Nepal T20 2022: Official Draft and Full Players List

The inaugural edition of Nepal T20 League, organized by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) is all set to start from the last week of September.

Player Registration for the Nepali Players was made open from August 27. More than 300 Nepali players registered for the draft. However, only 66 of them were drafted in the final squad.

Six franchises; Pokhara Avengers, Lumbini All Stars, Kathmandu Gurkhas, Far Western United, Biratnagar Super Kings and Janakpur Royals.

Pokhara Avengers are only the franchise to pick up two players from Category A. They picked up opener Asif Sheikh as their Marquee and also picked up Sharad Vesawkar from category A.

Category ‘A’ players earn 1.5 million whereas Category B will get a purse of 1 million. Similarly, category C player will receive 0.5 million.

Nepal T20 2022: Official Draft and Full Players List

All the players list of Nepal T20 2022 Draft are listed below:

Pokhara Avengers – Asif Sheikh ( Marquee ),  Sharad Vesawkar , Kushal Malla, Pratish GC, Aarif Sheikh, Tul Bahadur Thapa, Bishal Bikram KC, Krishna Karki, Bipin Khatri, Sumit Maharjan, Siddhant lohani.

Overseas Players: Zahir Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Upul Tharanga, Ameer Hamza.

Lumbini All Stars – Dipendra Singh Airee ( Marquee ), Anil Kumar Shah, Kushal Bhurtel, Gulshan Jha, Sagar Dhakal , Yogendra Singh Karki, Kishor Mahato, Tilak Raj Bhandari, Sunil Dhamala, Akash Chand, Ishan Pandey.

Lumbini All Stars –  Harry Tector, Unmukt Chand, Lahiru Milantha, Shadley van Schalkwyk, Harmeet Singh Baddhan, Pat Brown, Bipul Sharma.

Kathmandu Knights – Gyanendra Malla ( Marquee ) , Lokesh Bam , Basir Ahmad, Kamal Singh Airee, Abinash Bohara, Anil Kharel, Saurav Khanal, Sandeep Rajali, Santosh Karki, Sunam Gautam, Gautam KC.

Overseas Players: Ryal Burl, Azmatullah Omarzai, Alex Blake, Virandeep Singh.

Far Western United – Karan KC ( Marquee ), Binod Bhandari, Bhim Sharki, Dev Khanal, Rashid Khan, Durgesh Gupta, Bhuwan Karki, Hari Shankar Shah, Sher Malla, Basant Karki, Prakash Jaisi, Hashim Ansari.

Overseas Players: Mohammad Shahad, Sean Williams, Mathew Forde, Hashmatullah Sahidi, Umar Ali.

Biratnagar Super Kings – Rohit Paudel (Marquee), Arjun Saud, Nandan Yadav, Shahab Alam, Bibek Yadav, Amar Singh Routela, Narayan Joshi, Surya Tamang, Pradeep Airee, Prithu Baskota and Rijan Dhakal.

Overseas Players: Hussain Talat, Gauranshu Sharma, Raj Rocky Nannan, Keon Joseph, Andre McCarthy.

Janakpur Royals –  Sompal Kami ( Marquee ) , Sandeep Jora , Md. Aadil Alam, Dilip Nath, Lalit N Rajbanshi, Sushan Bhari, Sagar Pun, Pawan Sarraf, Jitendra Mukhiya, Khadak Bohara, Rajesh Pulami.

Overseas Players: CChadwick Walton, Kesrick Williams, Trevon Griffith, Sharafuddin Ashraf.

*(Full list of Foreign Players are yet to be announced)

Nepal T20 will be played in round robin format and all the matches will be played at TU Cricket Ground, Kirtipur.