Three aspirants who submitted the Expression of Interest (EOI) to own the team in the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), provided the pay-order and bank guarantee worth Tk. 5.50 crore as of now, said a BCB director. The deadline to clear the pay-order and bank guarantee will be expired today as the BCB expected some more aspirants would turn up.
A total of 11 new enterprises and two old franchisees after clearing their outstanding dues had submitted the EOI to be the part of new look BPL-3, scheduled to be hold on November 25 to December 25. Sylhet Royals and Rangpur Riders, the only two old franchisees kept them in the race of acquiring the team after BCB set a deadline of August 27 to clear the previous dues. Between the two teams, Sylhet also cleared the pay-order and bank guarantee to make them eligible for buying a team in the new edition. Rangpur Riders is yet to provide any bank guarantee and pay-order but as they cleared the previous dues, they are expected to turn up today.
Among the new 11 companies, DBL group and Axiom Technologies Limited provided the bank guarantee and pay-order.  “Among the previous franchisees, Sylhet Royal is the solitary franchisee, who has cleared the outstanding amount of the previous two editions alongside the current pay-order and bank guarantee for the third edition,” said Jalal Younus, chairman of BCB media and communications committee. “DBL Group and Axiom Technologies Limited are the two among the eleven new aspirants, who came up with the required amount of pay-order and bank guarantee money,” he added.
“Rangpur Riders cleared the dues of the previous editions. But they did not give the pay-order and bank guarantee money till Saturday,” he revealed.
“As far as I know, three or four more enterprises are ready to provide the pay-order and bank guarantee tomorrow.” Younus disclosed that the old franchisees had run out of time now as BCB would not consider their plea even though they come up with outstanding dues.  “The deadline for the old franchisees was over. They have no more chances left as they failed to meet their deadline set by the board” Younus replied in a query.
There are allegations from some aspirants that they didn’t get any clear guideline from the BCB, which made them apprehensive about providing the bank guarantee and pay-order. Younus dismissed the claim, stating that they have sent a concept paper in which everything was described in details. He advised the aspirants to go through the paper properly.“All the aspirants have been given a concept paper where rules and regulations have been properly written,” Younus informed.