Zohra Sports Management, the event manger of the Ncell NPL has selected 30 players for the NPL on Wednesday. The players were picked following a NCELL NPCL trial at the TU ground in Kirtipur on Saturday. Issuing a press release Zohra informed that the players were picked from among 1,500 aspiring cricketers who participated in the trial. These thirty players will be divided into six participating teams.
The trial which was inspected by the head coach of NCA Binod Das was helped by Dipendra Choudhary, Kalam Ali and Raju Basnyat. In the first day 60 players were selected and finally cutting it down to 30.
Apart from these thirty players Aarif Seikh and Karan KC have been selected for the NPL to replace injured Prithu Banskota and Jitendra Mukhiya. Prithu is ongoing his treatment in Australia after he collided with Sharad Veswakar during ICC World Cup Qualifiers held in New Zealand in January while Mukhiya suffered a problem in his hip.
The Ncell NPL will feature T20, 50-over and two-day tournament starting from mid of this month probably starting with One Day.
Here are the list of thirty players that has been selected for Ncell NPL :-
1. Lal Bahadur Adhikari
2. Raju Gurung
3. Aayush Dhakwa
4. Anil Adhikari
5. Kshitiz Singh
6. Bibek Sharma
7. Pawan Sarraf
8. Chandan Jha
9. Shankar Rana
10. Raj Mohammad
11. Kushal Bhurtel
12. Suraj Prasad Kurmi
13. Sumit Shrestha
14. Bikram Basnet
15. Bhupendra Thapa Chhetri
16. Arjun Adhikari
17. Aashu Kandoi
18. Suman Shrestha
19. Aakash Gupta
20. Sanjay Shrestha
21. Dipendra Kumar Shah
22. Sonu Tamang
23. Dipendra Yadav
24. Gaurav Singh
25. Arjun Chapagain
26. Shiva Sharma
27. Vishnu Pandey
28. Aviraj Yadav
29. Arsalan Akhtar
30. Ravi Bhatta
