The Player draft for the 5th edition of Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will be held Saturday (September 16) at the city’s hotel at 12 pm.
The players’ draft will telecast live worldwide through GTV, Rabbithole Aps and You Tube. Each franchise can buy at least 5 foreign players instead of four and 10 to 13 local players from the players draft program. This time a franchise can include minimum three foreign players in a match.
A total of seven franchises will take part in this year’s BPL. The franchises are Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Khulna Comilla and Rangpur. The participating teams already announced the names of their icon players.
The names of the icon players are Shakib Al Hasan of Dhaka Dynamites, Mushfiqur Rahim of Rajshahi Kings, Mahmudullah Riyad of Khulna Titans, Soumya Sarkar of Chittagong Vikings, Tamim Iqbal of Comilla Victorians, Mashrafe Mortaza of Rangpur Riders and Sabbir Rahman of Sylhet Sixers.
The 5th edition of BPL will begin from November 2 with Dhaka Dynamites will take on Sylhet Sixers in the opening match.
