2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League

AKS BPL 2018
Dates 5 January–8 February 2019
Administrator(s) Bangladesh Cricket Board
BPL Governing Council
Cricket format Twenty20
Tournament format(s) Double Round-robin and playoffs
Host(s)  Bangladesh
Participants 7
Official website BPL

The 2018-19 BPL season is scheduled to be the sixth season of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the top level professional Twenty20 cricket franchise league in Bangladesh. The competition was organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), featuring seven teams from seven cities. Teams will be restricted to having four overseas players per side, instead of five in the previous edition of the tournament.[1] Rangpur Riders are the defending champions.[2]

Originally, the season was scheduled to start on 1 October 2018 and end on 16 November 2018.[3] However, in May 2018, it was reported that the tournament might be moved to January 2019, because of security concerns around the Bangladeshi general election, scheduled to take place at the same time.[4] In July 2018, it was confirmed that the tournament would start in January 2019.[5][6]

A players' draft was scheduled to take place on 25 October 2018.[7] However, the date was moved to 28 October due to a schedule clash with the ODI series between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.[8] For this edition of the tournament, the Decision Review System (DRS) will be used for the first time.[7]

Teams and their icons

By 30 September the team franchises announced the names of their retained players for this tournament and their icon players. The rest of the players will be bought from the Players' Draft, which is scheduled to be held on 25 October 2018. Liton Das and Mustafizur Rahman are new addition to this list while Soumya Sarkar and Sabbir Rahman have been exclude from this list.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Four foreigners per side in BPL 2018". The Daily Star (Bangladesh). Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "Gayle's record 146* carries Rangpur to maiden title". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "BPL teams to have a maximum of four overseas players in 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 18 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "BPL likely to be delayed due to general elections". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Zimbabwe's tour of Bangladesh now set for October 2018". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "BPL VI to start on January, 2019". bdcrictime. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
  7. 1 2 "DRS set to be introduced in BPL 2019". CricBuzz. Retrieved 2 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "Players draft for BPL postponed due to Zimbabwe ODIs", Cricbuzz, retrieved 11 October 2018
  9. ↑ "Rajshahi Kings release Mushfiqur Rahim ahead of BPL 2019", Cricbuzz
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