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Bangladesh premium league (BPL) cricket will be start from 9th February 2012. On 21st December, the event Management Company bought the tournament title for six years for 44.33 million dollars, or at 354 crores Taka. Matches will be held in Dhaka and Chittagong. There will be total six franchises such as Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna for BPL. The player auction for the T20 cricket tournament will be held on January 5, in Dhaka. However, everything will be beyond the opening ceremony. The opening ceremony will be for 2 and half hour. The culture and history of freedom fighting of Bangladesh will be display in this show. For BPL opening ceremony, popular bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, karina Kapoor, dipika padukonera likely to present. The popular singer Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan will be also arrive Dhaka in that time for BPL. 25 Foreign Players Signed BPL - Bangladesh Premier League contract till today. Some Big names are. West indies- Pollard, Bravo, Benn ! Pakistan- Kaneria, Kamran Akmal, Imran Nazir, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Sami, Rana Naved ! England- James Andersen, Matt Prior, Foster, Hendersen, Peter Trego, James Tredwell ! South Africa- Gibbs, Andrew Hall ! New Zealand- Lou Vincent ! Sri Lanka- Kapugedara, Juhan Mubarak, Chamara Silva With IPL, BBL, and many ore Twenty20, we will see and end to international cricket in coming years?

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I am glad they are bringing so many leagues. Everyone will get bored of this drama because of too much 2020s. Eventually all of it will die and ODIs and Test will forever remain strong.
no T20 is the future... tests and ODI are going away slowly :two_thumbs_up:
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I am glad they are bringing so many leagues. Everyone will get bored of this drama because of too much 2020s. Eventually all of it will die and ODIs and Test will forever remain strong.
Football is played in the entire world ,do you think people get bored they see their unprofessional leagues compared to European leagues .Bangladesh is 170 million people nation ,they need their own league for entertainment of people.
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Football is played in the entire world ' date='do you think people get bored they see their unprofessional leagues compared to European leagues .Bangladesh is 170 million people nation ,they need their own league for entertainment of people.[/quote'] Rightly said but I think these league need to mature a bit, I mean the domestic league should happen over time parallel to international cricket. BBL is an effort in the direction
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I wonder if Modi is involved in the background to setup this league, with the operation, costs, management, what do the winners get fish and rice with takas, on a serious note we do not need these t20 leagues, already Bangladesh cricketers suck at test's and odi's , think they will get worse now.Goodluck to them hopefully the board players make money and that goes into developing cricket as they need to do that rather.

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The first edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will kick off on February 9, 2012 with the final to be played on February 29. The 20-day tournament will feature six teams that will play each other twice each in a round-robin format over 33 matches to be held in Chittagong and Dhaka. Teams will be allowed to field five foreign players in their XIs, as opposed to four in the IPL. Adam Gilchrist, Mathew Hayden, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo, Kamran Akmal and James Anderson are among at least 25 foreign players who have made themselves available for the tournament. "The main thing is the Bangladesh players have to be available," Arun Lal, a consultant to Game on Sports, the tournament organisers:giggle:, and also a former India opener, told ESPNcricinfo. As in the first season of the IPL, each team will have an icon player. The Bangladesh Cricket Board announced yesterday that Tamim Iqbal will be the icon player for Chittagong, Mohammad Ashraful for Dhaka, Alok Kapali for Sylhet, Shahriar Nafees for Barisal, Mushfiqur Rahim for Rajshahi and Shakib Al Hasan for Khulna. The players will be paid 5% more than the amount received by the highest paid player of each franchise. The franchise auction will take place on January 5, either in Dhaka or the sea-side town of Cox's Bazar. Companies wishing to bid for a franchise will submit their offers on the same day, and bids will be opened in front of all those present, with the franchises going to the highest bidder. The player auction is scheduled to take place 10 days later. Each team will have to spend a minimum of US $2 million and can spend up to a maximum of $5 million. The BPL will be televised on a new sports channel in Bangladesh and the organisers are believed to be in discussions with Ten Sports to broadcast the tournament in India. However, India's domestic 50-over tournament begins on February 20 and therefore could restrict Indian participation. "India is a problem," Lal said. "In the first six or eight games, they [india players] could play." The organisers are also hoping that the winner of the BPL will be given a place in the Champions League Twenty20 next year. Arun Lal, a consultant to Game on Sports, the tournament organisers:haha: Each team will have to spend a minimum of US $2 million and can spend up to a maximum of $5 million. :ohmy: its gonna fail, they wont have this much money

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The Bangladesh Premier League From Cricinfo: BPL franchises fetch low prices The auction for the six franchises of the Bangladesh Premier League has been completed with a total of $6.49 million spent, and none of the teams fetching much more than their base price of $1 million. Chittagong was the most expensive franchise at $1.2 million and Barisal the least at $1.01 million. BPL governing council secretary Sirajuddin Mohammed Alamgir, however, said he was delighted that the teams had been bought because the tournament, which has received considerable promotion, can now go ahead as planned next month without any hitches. "We are very happy that it has all been completed properly," Alamgir told ESPNcricinfo. "We have the tournament guaranteed now and we didn't have to face any embarrassing situations. Bids were placed and we had the franchises sold." The auction, held in Dhaka, was a low-key event after the sudden demise of the Bangladesh Cricket Board's chief Manzur Ahmed in the morning. The franchises have been bought for a six-year period. The Chittagong franchise was bought by SQ Sports, a group of businessmen led by Dhaka Dyeing, who outbid Pearl Trading ($1.05 million) and Digital Auto Care ($1 million). The fact that a $200,000 bump from the base price was the highest for any team says a lot about the bidding war - or lack of it. The second-highest price offered was for Khulna, which was bought by Orion Group for $1.1 million. Digital Auto Care paid just $1.07 million for Rajshahi; a group of business houses led by Walton, a local electronic goods manufacturing giant, bought Sylhet for $1.06 million; and the Dhaka franchise was picked up by Europa Group for $1.05 million with the other bidders - Digital Auto Care and Euro Impex - offering the base price. This was a bit of a surprise given the prestige attached to the country's biggest division. When the teams were sold for the National Cricket League T20s two years ago there had been fierce competition between bidders for the Dhaka team. The Alif Group acquired the Barisal franchise for the lowest price of all the teams: $1.01 million. The bidding for the Barisal team turned into a bit of a farce when Southern International quoted $900,000, which was less than the base price for a franchise. That bid indicated the lack of confidence investors seemed to have in the benefits of buying a franchise. The money paid to acquire the franchises will go to Game On Sports, who signed a six-year deal worth $44.3 million with the BCB, acquiring the rights to manage the BPL. "Game On Sports will get all the income from this auction, which will be paid in yearly installments," Alamgir said. "The companies that have bought the franchises will be in control of their respective teams for six years, though they can sell them after three years. As for the payment to be received by the BCB from Game On Sports, that will be received in installments over six years, paid 30 days after the end of each edition of the tournament." The absence of bids from big corporate houses was something even the eventual franchise owners expressed concern about, but they expect the profile of the tournament to grow once it starts. Notably, the companies that bought National Cricket League T20 franchises two years ago did not bid for teams this time. That tournament only lasted one season, and that experience, coupled with the fragility of the Bangladesh market, kept them away from the auction. Foreign buyers were also rumoured to have shown interest in buying teams but none came forward in the end. There is hope that owners of IPL franchises will buy stakes in the BPL franchises from their owners. Alamgir said that the revenue generated by the BPL would be ploughed back into first-class and age-group level cricket in Bangladesh, though the franchises will not have any obligation to develop or have any connection to the divisional sides. "The BCB's policy will be to use this money for longer-version cricket as well as for schools and age-group cricket. It will help us put the regional structure in place. "But these franchises are businesses so we can't ask their owners to develop regional cricket. They can do it if they want, but primarily the franchises need to be run as professionally strong units with a focus on developing marketing and team management." The Rajshahi team owners have moved quickly, and have already roped in former chief selector and Bangladesh captain Faruk Ahmed as the manager of the team, and former opener Athar Ali Khan as its chief advisor. They will also involve former national captain Khaled Mashud, who is regarded as the most influential man in Rajshahi cricket. Europa Group, the Dhaka franchise owners, have asked former Bangladesh captain and current national team selector Habibul Bashar to build their team as its chief consultant. The players' auction will be held on January 19 in Dhaka, and will feature several international cricketers, as well as local players, who will be justifiably excited about the prospects of signing a lucrative deal. Competition for IPL? :nervous:

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