The
seventh edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is all set to begin from
December 11, 2019, and this one-month-long tournament will end on January 16,
2020. However, the opening ceremony of this cash-rich tournament will take
place on December 8. The forthcoming season, which has been named ‘Bangabandhu
BPL’, will be inaugurated by Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The
reason behind naming this competition after the Father of the Nation,
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is to mark his 100th birthday. On
November 16, 2019, the logo of the Bangabandhu BPL, which is also known as BPL
7, was shown at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka.
The Bangabandhu BPL T20 2019 organized by the Bangladesh
Cricket Board (BCB) will feature seven teams- Dhaka Platoon, Chattogram
Challengers, Cumilla Warriors, Khulna Tigers, Rajshahi Royals, Rangpur Rangers
and Sylhet Thunder. Comilla Victorians is the defending champion and the
franchise will also try to defend the title for the third time.
The sad thing is that Bangladesh’s Test and T20I
skipper, Shakib Al Hasan, will not be able to take part in this
special BPL edition. Because he failed to report three bookie approaches, he
has been banned from all types of cricket by the International Cricket Council
(ICC) for two years, with one year of that suspended.
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