Bangladesh Premier League 2012 – Teams & Squads & Schedule

The foundational edition of the Bangladesh Premier League Twenty20 (BPL) will begin on February 10 2012, with the clash between Barisal Burners and Sylhet Royals at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur.

The final is scheduled at the same venue on February 29.

Teams:

The tournament features six city-based franchises.

(1) Dhaka Gladiators, (2)  Chittagong Kings, (3) Duronto Rajshahi, (4) Sythet Royals, (5) Barisal Burners, (6) Khulna Royal Bengals.

Format:

The tournament features 33 fixtures in which the each team will play with other twice in a round-robin format. The top four teams in the points table at the end of the league stage will play in the semi-finals.

Rules:

Unlike IPL, where a side can pick maximum four foreign players, teams will be allowed to field five foreign players in their XI. Each team will have an icon player.

The winner of each match would get 4 points, if any match coming out with no result then 1 point will be rewarded to the teams apiece.

Venues:

All games are scheduled to be staged at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur and Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong.

Squads

Dhaka Gladiators:

Mohammad Ashraful (Ban), Shahid Afridi (Pak), Imran Nazir (Pak), Rana Naved-ul-Hasan (Pak), Mashrafe Mortaza (Ban), Darren Stevens (Eng), Nazimuddin (Ban), Alexei Kervezee (Ban), Saeed Ajmal (Pak), Nazmul Hossain (Ban), Stuart MacGill (Aus), Mosharraf Hossain (Ban), Aftab Ahmed (Ban), Tanveer Haider (Ban), Kieron Pollard (Ban), Elias Sunny (Ban), Dhiman Ghosh (Ban), Anamul Haque (Ban)

Chittagong Kings:

Tamim Iqbal (Ban), ShoaibMailk (Pak), Saeed Ajmal (Pak), Dwayen Bravo (WI), M. Muralitharan (SL), Nasir Jamshed (Pak), Lendl. Simmons (WI), Tom Cooper (NED), Mahmudullah Riad (Ban), Forhad Reza (Ban), Johurul Islam (Ban), Faisal Hossain (Ban), Arafat Sunny (Ban), Enamul Haque(Ban), Ziaur Rahman (Ban), Samsur Rahman (Ban), Sanjamul Haque (Ban), Jerome Taylor (WI)

Duronto Rajshahi:

Mushfiqur Rahim (Ban), Abdul Razzak (Pak), Marlon Samuels (WI), Sean Ervine (ZIM), Imran Tahir (SA). Rizwan Cheema (Can), Md Sammy (Pak), Qaisar Abbas (Pak), Fawad Alam (Pak), Junaid Siddique (Ban), Sabbir Rahman (Ban), Muktar Ali (Ban), Syed Rasel (Ban), Shaumm Sarkar (Ban). Saqlain Sajeeb (Ban), Asif Ahmed (Ban)

Sylhet Royals:

Alok Kapali (Ban), Bred Hogg (Aus), Sohail Tanvir (Pak), Darren Sammy (WI), Kamran Akmal (Pak), Gary Keedy (Eng), Peter Trego (Eng), Naeem Islam (Ban), Imrul Kayes (Ban), Faisal Iqbal (Pak), Rubel Hossain (Ban), Nadif Chowdhury (Ban), Noor Hossain (Ban), Arafat Salauddin (Ban), Shuvagoto Hom (Ban), Talha Jubair (Ban), Nabil Samad (Ban)

Barisal Burners:

Shahriar. Nafees (Ban), Chris Gayle (WI) Yasir Arafat (Pak), Bred Hodge (Aus) Ahmed, Shehzad (Pak) Hamid Hossain (Pak), Ramiz Raza Jnr (Pak), Suhrawadi Shuvo (Ban), Md Mithun (Ban), Kamrul Islam (Ban), Alauddin Babu (Ban), Al Amin (Ban), Nazmul Hossain (Ban), Sohag Gazi (Ban), Mominul Hoque (Ban), Farhad Hossain (Ban)

Khulna Royal Bengals:

Shakib Al Hasan (Ban), Hershelle Gibbis (SA), Andre Russell (WI), Sanath Jayasuriya (SL), Neil O’Brain (Ire), Dwayne Smith (WI), Jhon Batler (Eng), Shivnarian Chandarpaul (WI), Nasir Husain (Ban), Abdur Razzak (Ban), Shafiul Islam (Ban), Dolar Mahmud (Ban), Marshal Aiyub (Ban), Maishukur Rahman (Ban), Sagir Hossain Pavel (Ban), Shahadat Hossain (Ban), Nazmul Hossain (Ban), Fidel Edwards (WI)

Bangladesh Premier League 2012 Schedule & Fixtures