One Nepali player is third, nine players are second and five players are playing in the T20 World Cup for the first time.
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The Twenty20 Cricket World Cup begins on Saturday. Nepal is also participating in this World Cup to be held in India and Sri Lanka. This is the third World Cup that Nepal is playing.
Rohit Kumar Poudel
World Cup Participation: Second
Rohit, who arrived in Kathmandu from Bardaghat, Nawalparasi with the desire to become a cricketer, began his journey after training at the Baluwatar Cricket Training Center.
He reached the national cricket team through the Nepal U-19 team. He has been the regular captain of Nepal for the last 3 years.
Nepal will play the World Cup for the second time under Rohit's captaincy. Nepal also played the Asia Cup for the first time under his captaincy.
Kusal Bhurtel
World Cup Participation: Second
Kusal Bhurtel came to international cricket as a medium pace bowling all-rounder.
After being substituted for Saurabh Khanal after he was injured, Kusal got to play in the ICC U-19 World Cup held in Bangladesh in 2016.
Batting from the middle order, he was made his debut by Australian coach Dave Whatmore in 2021. Since then, he has been established as an aggressive batter in the Nepali team.
Asif Sheikh 
World Cup Participation: Second
Asif appeared in Nepali cricket after scoring a half-century with Panchakanya Tej in the Nepal Premier League in 2016.
Back-to-back good performances in domestic cricket gave him the opportunity to make his debut for the Nepali national team in 2021.
He has a calm nature and his specialty is to extend Nepali batting innings.
Dipendra Singh Airi 
World Cup Participation: Second
Dipendra is a player who came forward from the ICC U-19 World Cup held in Bangladesh in 2016.
The following year, he made his debut for the national team in the World Cricket League Championship match against Kenya in Kirtipur. Earlier, he was a medium-pace all-rounder.
But after a back problem, he became an off-spinner. Which took him to second place in the Twenty20 International all-rounder rankings. He has also set an unbeaten record in Twenty20 Internationals by scoring a half-century in 9 balls.
Sandeep Jora 
World Cup participation: Second
Jora from Mahendranagar Kanchanpur is the youngest player to score a half-century in a Twenty20 International.
He scored 53 runs in 46 balls against the UAE in 2019. He achieved this feat at the age of 17 years and 103 days.
This was also his 'debut' match in a Twenty20 International. Although his performance was not consistent, he scored 63 runs in the second Twenty20 International against the West Indies in August.
Arif Sheikh 
World Cup participation: First
Arif is the most experienced player in the Nepali team. He has been in the Nepali team since 2014.
Arif was dropped from the World Cup team in a fierce competition two years ago.
This time, he has managed to make it to the World Cup and is in the running to make it to the World Cup for the first time.
Playing solidly in the middle order is his specialty. Since Stuart Law became the coach, he has been a pillar in Nepal's middle-order batting.
Sompal Kami 
World Cup participation: Third
Sompal, who was in Punjab, India with his family, returned home to play cricket in 2013 with the help of the Nepal Cricket Fan Club.
He made his 'debut' in the Nepali team in the World Cup qualifiers held in New Zealand in January 2014.
He has been playing continuously since then. He is the only player to play in all three World Cups that Nepal has played.
Gulshan Jha 
World Cup participation: Second
Another player who was made debut by Dave Whatmore is Gulshan Jha. All-rounder is his specialty.
He has established himself in the Nepali team especially because of his wide-handed batting.
His journey that started from Sarlahi was enhanced by going to Nepal Police Club.
He made his debut for the Nepali team in the Oman World Cup League-2 in 2022.
Lokesh Bam 
World Cup Participation: First
Lokesh came into the limelight after scoring a half-century while batting in the last three overs of the domestic competition Prime Minister's Cup in 2022.
Two years ago, he scored a century against Ireland 'A'.
He is the only player from Nepal to score a century in Twenty20 in the last three years. He is also the second-choice wicketkeeper of the Nepali team.
Bashir Ahmed 
World Cup Participation: First
Bashir Ahmed is a spin all-rounder with a strong arm. He got the opportunity to play the World Cup for the first time after showing an impact with his bat in the Nepal Premier League.
Hailing from Kapilvastu, he is remembered for his innings in the final of the four-nation tournament held in Hong Kong last year.
He scored 80 runs off 43 balls, but Nepal lost by three runs.
Karan KC 
World Cup participation: Second
Karan's playing journey began after returning to Nepal from India in 2014.
He is the fastest bowler of the Nepali team. But in batting, he has the highest strike rate from the Nepali team.
His bowling is even more effective in Twenty20 cricket. He is only the second bowler from Nepal to cross 100 wickets.
Sandeep Lamichhane 
World Cup participation: Second
Sandeep Lamichhane is a leg-spin legend. His cricket journey, which started in Chitwan, was taken to the Nepali team by Pubudu Dasanayake.
Since then, he has been the highest wicket-taker from Nepal in all formats.
He has extensive experience playing in world cricket including the Indian Premier League, Big Bash, Caribbean Premier League, Bangladesh Premier League.
Nandan Yadav 
World Cup Participation: First
Despite playing international cricket for Nepal in the age group, Nandan Yadav went to Australia for higher education.
After coming to play in the Nepal Premier League last year, he did not go to Australia again. Since then, he has been playing for the Nepali team continuously.
If he also made his debut in ODIs and Twenty20s.
Lalit Rajbanshi 
World Cup Participation: Second
Devre arm-spinner Lalit Rajbanshi is the most successful bowler in domestic cricket.
But due to not getting regular opportunities in the national team, he has not been able to give a correspondingly improved performance.
He has taken 47 wickets in 41 ODIs and 36 wickets in 37 T20Is.
Sher Malla
World Cup Participation: First
Sher Malla is the only player to win both editions of the Nepal Premier League.
This off-break all-rounder was in the news in this season's NPL. He jointly took the most wickets with 17.
Not only that, he had come to Mumbai to play the World Cup, opening the door for the Nepali national team.
