7 Tigers drafted for CPL
Seven Bangladeshi national cricketers have been officially registered for the HERO Caribbean Premier League (CPL) Player Draft which is scheduled to take place on February 11 in Barbados.
They are: Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Mahmudullah Riyad, Mushfiqur Rahim, Mustafizur Rahman and Soumya Sarkar. The T20 competition is expected to take place in July this year.
So far Shakib and Tamim are the players who have taken part in the earlier editions of the competition. For the rest of the above-mentioned players it will be a new experience, provided they get selected by the franchises next week.
The CPL this year is expected to be an extremely competitive tournament with a huge number of foreign players expected to take part. Apart from the seven Bangladeshi players, 23 Australians, 11 players from New Zealand, 37 from Pakistan, 34 from South Africa and 20 players from Sri Lanka have also been registered in the players' draft. The list of course, is aside from the hard-hitting West Indian players.
Of the current ICC World T20 player rankings, nine of the top 20 batsmen could be set to feature in this summer's CPL: du Plessis (fourth place), Guptill (fifth), Gayle (seventh), Zimbabwe's Hamilton Masakadza (eighth), Afghanistan's Mohammad Shahzad (ninth), Dilshan (13th), Brendon McCullum (15th), Watson (17th) and Umar Akmal (18th).
Four of the top five bowlers in the T20 rankings are also in the frame with the list headed by West Indian leg-spinner Badree, Afridi (third), Sachithra Senanayake (fourth) and Graeme Cremer (fifth), with Malinga (seventh) and Tahir (ninth) also amongst the leading lights in contention.
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