Bangladesh Premier League

This article is about the cricket league. For the football league, see Bangladesh Premier League (football).
Bangladesh Premier League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2016-17 Bangladesh Premier League
Formerly National Cricket League (2010-12)
Sport Cricket
Founded 18 January 2012 (2012-01-18)
Inaugural season 2012
Owner(s) Bangladesh Cricket Board
CEO Nizamuddin Chowdhury
President Nazmul Hasan
No. of teams 7
Country Bangladesh Bangladesh
Headquarters Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Most recent
champion(s)		 Comilla Victorians (1st title)
Most titles Dhaka Dynamites(former Dhaka Gladiators) (2)
TV partner(s) Bangladesh: Channel Nine
Asia: BeIN Sports, Geo Super, Sony SIX, MTV Sports
Americas: ESPN, SportsMax
Europe: Premier Sports, Channel Nine Europe
Tournament format Double round-robin and knockout
Official website tigercricket.com.bd

The Bangladesh Premier League (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ প্রিমিয়ার লীগ) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league established in 2012 by Bangladesh Cricket Board. The Bangladesh Premier League replaced the previous competition, National Cricket League T20, and features seven city-based franchises, instead of six division teams which had participated previously.

History

Following the success of franchise Twenty20 cricket leagues such as the Indian Premier League around the world, the Bangladesh Cricket Board announced a plan to replace the National Cricket League with a franchise based league. On 18 January 2012 the board entered into a 6-year, 350-crore deal with Game On Sports Group to establish a franchise tournament. The deal gave the group exclusive management rights to the tournament. The league founded with six franchises from the largest cities of Bangladesh. During the franchise auction 13 companies took part in the bidding process, with six winning the rights of each clubs. The auction fetched 305-crores, with Chittagong Kings being the most expensive.

The first edition of the league was officially launched on 9 February 2012, in a lavish opening ceremony at , home of Bangladesh Cricket. The initial player auction was held on 18 and 19 January 2012 and the first match in the tournament staged on 9 February 2012 at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium between Sylhet Royals and Barisal Burners. The first championship game was between Dhaka Gladiators and Barisal Burners, with Dhaka Gladiators emerging as champions after winning by eight wickets. All matches in the first edition of the league were held at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium and Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium.

Rangpur Riders were added as a seventh team for the 2012–13 season following the addition of Rangpur as the seventh administrative division of Bangladesh. Dhaka Gladiators again emerged as champions beating Chittagong Kings in the final by 43 runs. Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Dhaka hosted most matches while the MA Aziz Stadium replaced the Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chittagong and Sheikh Abu Naser Stadium in Khulna hosted matches of the tournament for the time in 2013.

Following accusations of match fixing during the 2012–13 season, the owners of all six original franchises were suspended in 2013 due to constant violations of the league regulations and delays in making payments to players. The owners of Dhaka Gladiators were handed a lifetime suspension by the governing committee.[1] A number of players and administrators were handed bans for match fixing, including the captain of Bangladesh Mohammad Ashraful.

Following the match fixing scandal, the league was not played in either the 2013–14 or 2014–15 season. It returned in the 2015–16 season with six new franchises and matches played in the run up to the Victory Day national holiday in mid December. Comilla Victorians won the competition, beating Barisal Bulls by three wickets. In advance of the 2016–17 edition of the league one franchise, the Sylhet Super Stars, was suspended following breaches of disciplinary regulations[2] and two new franchises, Khulna Titans and Rajshahi Kings, were introduced bringing th number of teams in the competition back to seven.

League organisation

At a corporate level, the Bangladesh Premier League considers itself an association made up of and financed by its member teams. All income generated through television rights, licensing agreements, sponsorship, ticket sales and other means is earned and shared between the Bangladesh Cricket Board and the participating franchises. The league has three officers, the President, Secretary and Chief of treasurer. As the parent organisation, the Bangladesh Cricket Board elects and appoints the commissioner of the league, while the president of the board serves as the president of the league committee.

As of the 2016–17 season, the league consists of seven franchises. Each team players every other team twice in the round-robin stage of the competition with the teams with the best record advancing to a series of play-off matches. These lead to a championship natch which the decided the league champion. During the regular season, each team is allowed a maximum of 18 players on its roster, including a maximum of eight overseas players.

Draft system

The BPL operates a draft system to assign players to teams. New players can be chosen by franchises during an annual draft. Teams can also chose to retain players from one yer to the next and players can also be signed outside of the draft and traded between organisations. Since 2015, Imago Sports Management has been conducting the players draft event also is the official players management partner of Bangladesh Cricket Board for Bangladesh Premier League [3][4]

Tournament results

Winners

Year Final venue Final Teams MVP
Winner Result Runner-up
2012–13
Details		 Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Dhaka Gladiators
144/2 (15.4 overs)		 Dhaka Gladiators won by 8 wickets
Scorecard		 Barisal Burners
140/7 (20 overs)		 6 Bangladesh Shakib Al Hasan
2013–14
Details		 Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Dhaka Gladiators
175/1 (20 overs)		 Dhaka Gladiators won by 52 runs
Scorecard		 Chittagong Kings
123(16.5 overs)		 7 Bangladesh Shakib Al Hasan
2015–16
Details		 Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium Comilla Victorians
157/7 (20 overs)		 Comilla Victorians won by 3 wickets
Scorecard		 Barisal Bulls
156/4 (20 overs)		 6 England Ashar Zaidi
2016-17
Details		 Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium TBD TBD TBD 7 TBD

Overall records

Records include all matches played under the name of a franchise, even where the franchise has been suspended and re-created as a new organisation.

Team Performance Standing
Match Win Loss Tied No Results Win Percentage 2012 2013 2015 2016
Barisal Bulls 37 20 17 0 0 54.05% R 5th R
Chittagong Vikings 35 15 20 0 0 42.85% 5th R 6th
Comilla Victorians 12 9 3 0 0 75.00% DNP DNP W
Dhaka Dynamites 37 22 15 0 0 59.46% W W 4th
Rangpur Riders 24 12 12 0 0 50.00% DNP 5th 3rd
Sylhet Super Stars 34 14 20 0 0 41.17% 6th 3rd 5th DNP
Rajshahi Kings 24 12 12 0 0 50.00% 3rd 4th DNP
Khulna Titans 23 9 14 0 0 39.13% 4th 7th DNP

[5][6]

League championships

TeamsSpanChampionshipRunner Up Appearances Playoffs Group Stage
Dhaka Dynamites 2012–Present 2 (2012, 2013) 0 4 1 (2015) 0
Comilla Victorians 2015–Present 1 (2015) 0 2 0 0
Barisal Bulls 2012–Present 0 2 (2012, 2015) 4 0 1 (2013)
Chittagong Vikings 2012–Present 0 1 (2013) 4 0 2 (2012, 2015)
Rangpur Riders 2013–Present 0 0 3 1 (2015) 1 (2013)
Sylhet Super Stars 2012–2015 0 0 3 1 (2013) 2 (2012, 2015)
Rajshahi Kings 2012-Present 0 0 3 2 (2012, 2013) 0
Khulna Titans 2012-Present 0 0 3 1 (2012) 1 (2013)

[5][6]

Trophies and Awards

The Bangladesh Premier League has used three different trophies during its existence. The first trophy, the Destiny-BPL Trophy, was awarded during the first season of the tournament. The trophy was named after the initial sponsor of the tournament. The trophy was changed during the second season of the league when the main sponsor changed. In 2015, A permanent design was unveiled, and titled BRB-BPL Championship Trophy. This trophy was used from the 2015–16 season. Bangladesh Cricket Board procured a brand new trophy from England for season four 2016–17 season and this trophy will be the signature trophy of BPL and winning team will get replica trophy.

Sponsorship

For the first season of the tournament, Bangladeshi conglomerate Destiny Group was the main sponsor of the tournament, negotiating a one-year sponsorship package for 7.5 crores taka (US$1.0 million). Prime Bank Limited was awarded with the sponsorship deal for the second season for 10 crores taka (US$1.5 million). BRB Cables Limited held the sponsorship rights for third season in 2015 with 15 crores taka (US$2.0 million). Abul Khair Steel (AKS), a sister concern group of Abul Khair Industries Limited became the title sponsor of the fourth edition.

Media coverage

In Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Premier League has television contracts with Channel Nine. The League has television contracts with seven other television network across the world: ESPN hold the rights to all games in North America, Sony SIX in India, Geo Super in Pakistan, and MTV Sports in Sri Lanka. BeIN Sports holds rights to all games in the Middle East, while Sportmax and Premier Sports airs the tournament in the Caribbean and United Kingdom. Channel Nine UK holds the rights to all games in Europe, excluding the United Kingdom.

Channel Nine holds the exclusive rights to the promotion and distribution of the tournament games, and other related events, such as the auction, behind the scenes and highlights. The rights were acquired by the corporation for 935-crores (US$120.12 million).

Region Years Channels
 Bangladesh 2012-present Channel Nine
BTV
 India
   Nepal		 2016-present Sony ESPN
Sony SIX
 Pakistan 2016-present Geo Super
 United Arab Emirates 2016 – present OSN
 West Indies 2016–present Flow TV

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Pieal, Jannatul. "Rangpur cleared to bid again, BPL-3 may see eight teams". bdcricteam. bdcricteam.com. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Eighty-five players picked in BPL 2016-17 draft, Cricinfo, 2016-09-30. Retrieved 2016-09-30.
  3. ↑ BPL 2015 Players Draft http://www.imagosports.com.bd/bpl-2015-players-draft/
  4. ↑ http://www.dhakatribune.com/magazine/2016/11/07/the-business-of-sports/
  5. 1 2 "Cricket Records | Bangladesh Premier League | Records | Result summary". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Cricket Records | Bangladesh Premier League | Records | Series results". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  7. ↑ "How Much Did BCB Earn from BPL?". The Bengali Times. thebengalitimes.com. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  8. ↑ Isam, Mohammad. "BCB sells worldwide media rights for $20.02 million". Cricinfo. espncricinfo.com. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

External links

All information about BPL T20 2016 Point Table

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