No auction in 3rd BPL
Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan Papon said that the number of franchises may increase for the third edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL).
"There is a chance to see more than seven teams. If we find that there are some more good investors then we may increase the number of teams," Papon told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.
He also informed that players will be allocated to the franchises through a lottery-based transfer system called 'players-by-choice' -- which he believes will ensure balance among the teams -- instead of the auctioning process that was used for the 2012-13 Dhaka Premier League.
Papon also said that they have discussed making quotas for local and foreign players and that they would make a list of local cricketers and divide them into different categories and will have a long list of foreign cricketers from where every team can take four cricketers.
Papon said that the owners of the Rangpur franchise from the 2013 BPL have cleared their dues and that's why they can now bid for a team in this year's tournament.
"Among the old franchises, Rangpur have cleared their dues, so now we have 12 companies which have expressed their interest. We will give them a letter on August 30 or September 1 to deposit Tk 1 crore as pay order and Tk 4.5 crore as bank guarantee, a total of Tk 5.5 crore. There won't be any risks if we take Tk 5.5 crore," said Papon.
"We will wait till August 27 for the old franchises to pay their past dues. Five companies are yet to pay Tk 36.81 crore. The Sylhet franchise has almost Tk 8 crore, Barisal 6.5 crore, Khulna around 8.19 crore, Rajshahi 6.09 crore and Chittagong 7.45 crore. There may be discrepancies of 1 to 2 lakh taka in these figures, but this is what we have in our records, he added.
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