Gautam Buddha Cup 2020: Full schedule, match timings, venue and squads

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After a long hiatus of nine months, Nepal is all set to resume the cricketing actions at Bharatpur on Saturday. One of the bodies of the Cricket Association of Nepal, Bagmati Province Cricket Association (BPCA), is organizing the cricket tournament after the pandemic before PM Cup. The players and the organizers believe that the tournament is a warm-up tournament ahead of the PM Cup after COVID-19.

Three teams will feature in the Gautam Buddha T20 Cup. They are Team Bagmati, Team Narayani and Team Rapti. The three teams play each other and, the top two teams will meet in the finals on December 15. All the matches will take place at Gautam Buddha International Cricket Stadium at Bharatpur.

Gautam Buddha Cup 2020 Schedule and Match Timings (Timings in IST)

December 12, 2020

Bagmati Vs Narayani – 10:45 AM

December 13, 2020

Bagmati Vs Rapati – 9:30 AM

December 14, 2020

Rapati Vs Narayani – 9:30 AM

December 15, 2020

Finals –  9:30 AM

Gautam Buddha Cup 2020  Venue

All the games of Gautama Buddha T20 Cup will be played at Gautama Buddha International Cricket Stadium.

Gautam Buddha Cup 2020 Squads

Team Bagmati

Gyanendra Malla(captain), Anil Sah, Sompal Kami, Rashid Khan, Lalit Rajbanshi, Sagar Dhakal, Rohit Paudel, Pawan Sharaf, Sunil Dhamala, Bikram Sob, Pradeep Airee, Bhim Sharki, Aakash Thapa and Sangharsha Poudel.

Team Narayani

Paras Khadka(captain), Subash Khakurel, Karan KC, Kishor Mahato, Sushan Bhari, Shahab Alam, Aarif Sheikh, Sandeep Jora, Rit Gautam, Sidhhant Lohani, Ishan Pandey, Raju Rijal, Dipesh Shrestha and Vivek Yadav.

Team Rapti

Binod Bhandari(captain), Kushal Bhurtel, Avinash Bohara, Kamal S Airee, Surya Tamang, Bhuwan Karki, Sharad Veshawkar, Lokesh Bam, Aasif Sheikh, Jitendra Mukhiya, Amit Shrestha, Sumit Maharjan, Hari Bahadur Chauhan and Swapnil Adhikari.