Bangladesh Premier League

Bangladesh Premier League

Bangladesh Premier League
Countries	Bangladesh
Administrator	Bangladesh Cricket Board
Format	Twenty20
First edition	2012
Latest edition	2024
Next edition	2025
Tournament format	Double round-robin and Playoffs
Number of teams	7
Current champion	Fortune Barishal (1st title)
Most successful	Comilla Victorians (4 titles)
Most runs	Tamim Iqbal (3321)
Most wickets	Shakib Al Hasan (134)
TV	List of broadcasters
Website	bplt20.com.bd

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ প্রিমিয়ার লিগ; ISO: bānlādēś primiẏār lig) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league organised by the BPL Governing Council. The BPL is one of the three professional cricket leagues in Bangladesh. It is the 16th most attended premier league in the world. In winter, each team faces the other twice in the league stage. Following the conclusion of the regular season, the top four teams advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination game, and two qualifier games culminating in the Championship game, between the winner of Qualifier 1 and Qualifier 2.

The Bangladesh Premier League was formed in 2011 by the

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.^[1] On 18 January 2012, the board entered 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 was 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 club.^{[citation needed]}

In July 2022, after the ICC accommodated the month of January and February for the BPL, in its ICC Future Tours Programme, the BCB announced the schedule of the BPL for the next three seasons.^[2][3]

2012 (1st edtion)

The

It was the fifth season of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). The competition was organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and features seven teams from seven different cities. The season began on 4 November, and ended on 12 December 2017, with the defending champion,

Group stage matches was played in three blocks. The first and third blocks took place in Dhaka with the middle block of 10 matches taking place in Chittagong. Two matches was played on each day of the group stage part of the tournament. The first four matches of the tournament were washed out after heavy rain and the two matches scheduled to take place on 6 November were postponed. The tournament was restarted on 8 November with the first six fixtures to be rescheduled at a later date. The matches from the opening day of fixtures was replayed with the points table reset.

In Finale, Rangpur Riders defeated Dhaka Dynamites to win their first title. In the final match Chris Gayle was awarded the man of the match award and also won player of the series award. He was the leading run scorer in the tournament with 2 banger centuries (146* of 69 and 126 of 51 ) and a total tally of 485 runs. Shakib Al Hasan was the leading wicket taker with 22 wickets.

• Dhaka Dynamites won the toss and elected to field.
• Chris Gayle (Rangpur Riders) has hit the most sixes by a player in a T20 match (18 sixes).
• He has also scored the highest score by a player in a T20 final as well as the highest in BPL history (146*).
• The partnership between Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum is the highest ever in BPL (201* for the 2nd wicket).
• As a result of this match, Rangpur Riders won the championship.

2019 (6th edition)

Final: Comilla Victorians vs Dhaka Dynamites

Comilla Victorians Champions

Originally, the season was scheduled to start on 1 October 2018 and end on 16 November 2018. 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, which took place in December 2018. In July 2018, it was confirmed that the tournament would start in January 2019. For this edition of the tournament, the Decision Review System (DRS) were used for the first time.

In the final match,

The two points table topper teams Fortune Barishal and Comilla Victorians reached the final. In the final, Comilla Victorians defended 151 runs to win their third title in a thrilling 1-run victory.^[19] Sunil Narine was the Player of the Final for his all-round performances. Shakib Al Hasan, captain of the runners-up team, Fortune Barishal, received the Player of the Tournament award for his all-round performance, having scored 284 runs in 11 innings and picked up 16 wickets.^[20]

2023 (9th edition)

Final: Comilla Victorians vs Sylhet Strikers

Comilla Victorians Champions

Read more at: https://www.mykhel.com/cricket/bangladesh-premier-league-winners-list/

The ninth season was scheduled to be held from 6 January to 16 February in 2023. BCB also decided to increase the number of teams to 7 and to sell the franchise rights for 3 years from this season.

BCB announced the list of franchise owners in September 2022, with five of the previous six franchises retaining ownership and the return of Rangpur Riders after two seasons. On 24 December 2022, BCB announced the fixtures for this season with two matches to be played per day in the group stage and having reserve days for all of the knockout matches.^[21]

In the final, Comilla Victorians defeated Sylhet Strikers by 7 wickets to win their second successive and overall fourth title.

2024 (10th edition)

Final: Comilla Victorians vs Fortune Barishal

(It was their third meeting in the BPL final . They met previously in 2015 and 2022 BPL finales and in both games Comilla Victorians won the match in the last ball) .

Winner : Fortune Barishal (1st Title)

It was one of the best seasons BPL has ever produced . With 3 Venues and 7 Teams this season produced so much competition and banger . Fortune Barishal had the strongest batting side of the tournament withstand a bunch of national Team Players . On the other side "Team of Bashundhara Group" Rangpur Riders with Sakib Al Hasan was also a Great Team . So the competition was thrilling between these 2 teams and at last Barishal Team came out victorious after knocking two table toppers.

This BPL had a great crowd engagement and amazing fireworks and set up a record of highest revenue of any BPL season.

• Most Runs : Tamim Iqbal; 492 runs in 15 innings

• Most Wicket : Shoriful Islam; 22 wickets in 12 match (Hat trick in Opening Match )

• Best Allrounder Performance : Shakib Al Hasan; 255 runs and 17 wickets.

2025 (11th edition)

To be coming soon......

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