Domestic cricket to resume after Ireland Wolves series: BCB CEO
Ruffin RemadCorrespondent
Posted - 2021-03-03T17:58:53+06:00
Updated - 2021-03-03T17:58:53+06:00
Bangladesh Cricket Board is mulling to get domestic cricket running soon after a long hiatus due to pandemic.
Bangladesh have had BCB President's Cup (an unofficial List A tournament) and Bangabandhu T20 Cup in the past 11 months. The men's national side has already made return to international cricket with home
series and the latest
tour.
Ireland Wolves are taking on Bangladesh Emerging team for a full series, allowing the youngsters get into some action against an overseas team. First-class tournament is likely to kickstart Bangladesh's domestic cricket after this series.
BCB will make a domestic schedule which will run till 2023.
"As we have our FTP fixed till 2023, our domestic calendar will be made till 2023," BCB chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury said. "We are working on setting fixtures for Dhaka Premier League, BPL, National [Cricket] League and other domestic tournaments. Primarily, our efforts will be on getting domestic cricket back on field as soon as possible. Probably, we will start with longer version and then DPL.
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"At the moment, our Emerging team is having a series [vs Ireland Wolves]. We will be trying to resume domestic cricket immediately after that."
Bangladesh Premier League T20 was not staged in the 2020-21 season. Instead, a six-team Bangabandhu T20 Cup was organised last December. The BCB has said the it has already set the dates for next BPL.
"We have a slot ready for BPL. We will release it once the BPL Governing Council approves," Nizamuddin added.
