Clubs seek foreign edge

The clubs of the Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League have shifted their focus to foreign recruitment.
The new format of the players' transfer this has helped in engineering a level playing field for all participating clubs, which is why the clubs, especially the big guns, were trying to rope in some good foreign cricketers to bolster their squads.
Most of the clubs were yet to confirm their recruitments -- one of the reasons the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is going to defer the league by seven more days.
Mushfiqur Rahman Mohan, cricket committee chairman of Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club, however informed yesterday that they confirmed Zimbabweans Elton Chigumbura and Charles Coventry, Sri Lankan Dilshan Munaweera and Afghanistan cricketer Shapoor Zadran for the entire tournament while Sri Lanka master batsman Kumar Sangakkara will play two matches.
Sheikh Jamal acquired players like national skipper Mushfiqur Rahim, left-arm spinner Abdur Razzak and Jahurul Islam on a lottery-based, rotational system players' transfer that took place last Sunday.