BCB mulls List A status for the league
The forthcoming Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League has been rescheduled again as the Bangladesh Cricket Board is still working on the by-laws of the tournament, said the officials on Sunday.
The DPL, already delayed several times due to umpteenth reasons, will now start on July 3 instead of July 1 as was planned earlier. The players’ recruitment programme was also delayed by two days to be rescheduled for June 23.
‘We are in the process of finalising the by-laws of the tournament. We want to make sure that every detail is in place and hence the slight delay in starting the league,’ Jalal Yunus, chairman of the Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis said in statement.
‘We also needed the extra time to make all the arrangements for the new player recruitment method that is being introduced this season,’ it added.
The DPL is likely to be recognised as a List A competition from the 2012-13 season as after the BCB’s belated move, it was confirmed its official status as the country’s premier one-day competition.
Until now only the National Cricket League one-day matches are recognised as List A matches in Bangladesh.
Officials said that the International Cricket Council had asked the BCB in 2007 to name its top one-day competition but for reasons unknown it then only mentioned the NCL matches.
With DPL going List A, Bangladesh will have two first-class tournaments and two List A competitions and a Twenty20 List A competition.
The National Cricket League and Bangladesh Cricket League are the first-class tournaments. The ODI version of the NCL and the DPL will be the List A tournaments with the Bangladesh Premier League being the List A Twenty20 competition.
The league that was supposed to start during March, had been delayed after several clubs demanded the availability of national players.
Still, the gradation and the price tags of the cricketers are yet to be confirmed as both clubs and Cricketers’ Welfare Association of Bangladesh are at loggerheads over the worth of the players.
CWAB demanded the value of the A+ grade cricketers should be ranged between Tk 30-35 lakhs whereas the clubs differed and proposed Tk 22 lakh for the A+ grade cricketers. The difference remained the same among the other graded cricketers.
The 108 cricketers are divided into six grades for the forthcoming players’ recruitment programme that is expected to be accomplished through a lottery system between the clubs.
Each club can buy two players from the A+ and A category which comprises of 24 cricketers.
-With New Age input
