Cricketers transfer begins today
Each team can take three players from pool
Sports Reporter
The traditional Inter Club Players Transfer is finally back two years after the league saw a system of players by choice in which the clubs were bound to pick a player through lottery.
The two-day Player Transfers for the 2016-17 season of the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League will begin today at Cricket Committee of Dhaka Metropolis (CCDM) office at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium, Mirpur. The league is scheduled to start on April 7 in three venuesKhan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, BKSP-3 and 4 ground.
With the most of the clubs finalised the team combination, it would be a mere formalities. And since the national players are busy in Sri Lanka tour, the attraction will not be there like the past.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) however had already released 19-member national pool list, considering only those players who had played the ODI cricket in the last one year. No players who played Test only are considered as the pool player.
A club would take maximum three pool players while they could field one foreign player in a match. There will be no binding in the number of foreign players registration during the league.
Reigning champions Abahani Limited had pool players like Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal and Mosaddek Hossain Saikat. In addition they also roped in pace sensation Mustafizur Rahman who is also in the pool and so they would have to leave one in the current context. Abahani retained most of the players of the past season like Liton Das, Nazmul Hossain Shanto. They also confirmed the service of Mehedi Maruf who hogged the limelight in the last BPL for champions Dhaka Dynamites, Afif Hossain Dhrubo, Saif Hasan and some young players.
Legends of Rupganj made their intention of emerging as the toughest rival of Abahani in this season by recruiting limited overs captain Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Test captain Mushfiqur Rahim and dependable ever domestic player Mahmudullah Riyad. They also got the players like Taijul Islam, Naeem Islam, Dewan Sabbir, Asif Hasan to form a formidable team. The formidable Rupganj team will have to drop one national pool player as at the moment the team has four national pool players
Domestic powerhouse Mohammedan Sporting Club who remains the shadow of their golden past acquired the service of Imrul Kayes, Mehedi Hasan Miraj, Shubhashis Roy, amongst whom Mehedi is not a pool player. Gazi Group Cricketers confirmed the service of Nasir Hossain, Anamul Haque Bijoy, Mominul Haque and Enamul Haque Junior.
Prime Doleshwar formed a team with the likes of Shahriar Nafees, Imtiaz Hossain Tanna, Farhad Reza, Abdul Majid, Sharifullah, Delwar Hossain and Marshall Ayub.
Mohammad Ashraful will play his first DPL after four years since his ban on playing domestic cricket is withdrawn. He will be seen in Kalabagan Krira Chakra tent along with Tushar Imran, Tasamul Haque, Nabil Samad.
Prime Bank Cricket Club formed a team with some effective players in domestic circuit like Nurul Hasan Sohan, Shuvagata Hom, Al-Amin Junior, Asif Hossain Ratul, Taibur Parvej, Nazmul Apu and Salman Hossain.
Khelaghar Samaj Kallayan Samity also got a strong team as the players like Mosharraf Hossain Rubel, Abdur Razzak, Al-Amin, Elias Sunny and Mohammad Sharif will play in this team.
National Pool Players: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah Riyad, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Sabbir Rahman, Nasir Hossain, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Taijul Islam, Taskin Ahmed, Rubel Hossain, Nurul Hasan, Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, Mosharraf Hossain, Shafiul Islam, Mustafizur Rahman, Tanveer Haider, Shubhashis Roy.
