Comilla Victorians

Season 3 (2015-16)

The Comilla Victorians were the newest addition to the Bangladesh Premier League. The draft pick was held on 22 October 2015, where the team picked three overseas players and thirteen national players. Some of them were Imrul Kayes and Liton Das. In the icon selection, they got the second pick in the lottery and chose Mashrafe Mortaza. Before the tournament, analysts predicted the Victorians as the weakest team in the tournament due to lack of variation in the team, despite inclusion of experienced players like Shoaib Malik and big hitters like Andre Russell.

2015/16 analysis

Group record
Matches	Wins	Losses	No result	Points	Summary
10	7	3	0	14	1st (of 6)
Batting records
Player	Innings	Runs	Average	SR	Highest Score
Imrul Kayes	12	312	28.36	114.70	67
Ashar Zaidi	8	215	53.75	138.70	53*
Ahmed Shehzad	7	204	34.00	110.86	76*
Bowling records
Player	Innings	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Economy
Abu Hider	12	46	316	21	6.91
Ashar Zaidi	11	37	177	17	4.78
Nuwan Kulasekara	8	27	155	10	5.74

Season 4 (2016-17)

The Victorians were looking to defend their title but failed in that mission miserably. Even with players like Ahmed Shehzad, Marlon Samuels, Mashrafe Mortaza and Rashid Khan, they lost their first 5 games in a row. They somehow managed to finish at the 2nd last place in the league stage thus ending their campaign in a rather sour note.

2016/17 analysis

Group record
Matches	Wins	Losses	No result	Run rate	Summary
12	5	7	0	0	6th (of 7)
Batting records
Player	Innings	Runs	Average	SR	Highest Score
Marlon Samuels	8	334	66.80	116.78	69*
Ashar Zaidi	12	267	21.41	122.96	52
Ahmed Shehzad	8	247	35.28	117.06	61
Bowling records
Player	Innings	Overs	Runs	Wickets	Economy
Rashid Khan	8	32	194	13	6.06
Mashrafe Mortaza	12	46	296	13	6.43
Sohail Tanvir	8	13	194	10	6.46

Season 5 (2017-18)

Tamim Iqbal was announced icon player of the team and the skipper as the Mashrafe Mortaza's they managed didn’t extend Mash’s contract this time unlike in 2016. Mohammad Salahuddin returned as the team's coach after a single season stint with Chittagong Vikings. All-rounder Mohammad Nabi from Afghanistan and Pakistani seamer Imran Khan Jr. joined the team after finishing a season with the Vikings. Shoaib Malik returned after spending some time with Nabi and Imran at the dressing room last year while English keeper Jos Buttler, Kiwi batter Colin Munro, Pakistani seamer Hassan Ali, Hasan’s ‘new-sensation’ countryman Fakhar Zaman, Lankan all rounder Angelo Mathews and more players will be representing the Victorians for the first time. Marlon Samuels and Rashid Khan has been retained by the team management.

In the draft, their first pick was pacer Al-Amin Hossain. Their surprise picks were all-rounder Mahedi Hasan, pacer Mehedi Hasan Rana and Zimbabwean cricketer Solomon Mire.

In the group games, Comilla performed very well. The team went on to win 9 games and losing 3, topping the leaderboard. However, the team suffered a heavy defeat against Dhaka Dynamites in Qualifier-1. Rangpur Riders eliminated them in Qualifier-2 which was filled with controversy. Due to persistent rain, the match was signaled to resume the next day which was against the bylaws of BPL. The rule was if the match had to be called off, then the team higher in group rankings would advance, hence Comilla Victorians’ team management were very angry.

2017/18 analysis

Group record
Matches	Wins	Losses	No result	Points	Summary
12	9	3	0	18	1st (of 7)
Batting records
Player	Innings	Runs	Average	SR	Highest Score
Tamim Iqbal	10	332	36.88	132.8	64*
Bowling records
Player	Innings	Wickets	Average	Economy	Best Figures
Hasan Ali	9	16	15.31	7.03	5/20

Season 6 (2018-19)

All the franchises were given until 30th September 2018 to submit their 4 retained cricketers. Comilla Victorians retained Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mohammad Saifuddin and Shoaib Malik. As all franchises are allowed to sign 2 foreign players pre-draft (but they can’t be their players from last season), Comilla went ahead and signed English all rounder, Liam Dawson and Sri Lankan Asela Gunaratne.