The BCB will probably be launching a maiden Ladies’s Bangladesh Premier League (WBPL); it’s more likely to be held quickly after the continued males’s competitors ends on February 7. Based on Nazmul Abedeen Fahim, the BCB director, it is going to be a three-team competitors, with every crew enjoying the others twice for a complete of six league video games adopted by the ultimate.
“The board has been enthusiastic about the assorted ways in which we are able to take ladies’s cricket ahead,” Fahim mentioned. “Whether or not we are able to do a T20 competitors for ladies was in our ideas. We now have determined at this time that we are going to do the Ladies’s BPL.”
Fahim mentioned the BCB is in talks with among the males’s BPL franchises relating to possession of the ladies’s groups, and that a few homeowners have proven curiosity.
“We now have already spoken to a couple BPL franchises, who’ve proven curiosity [in owning women’s teams],” he mentioned. “We wish to see how a ladies’s match has an impact on our T20 cricket. We’re hopeful that it’s going to assist our ladies’s recreation progress.”
Fahim mentioned that solely enable one abroad participant will probably be allowed within the enjoying XI, with the squads having a most of 15 gamers every.
“We can’t take many abroad gamers because of the monetary constraints,” he mentioned. “4 abroad gamers places monetary stress on the groups; maybe they do not wish to take that stress. We wish to give extra alternatives to our home cricketers. We wish to add competitiveness.”
It is going to be the primary ladies’s T20 match to be held in Bangladesh. Ladies cricketers within the nation play the one-day league in Dhaka, and the BCB just lately launched a ladies’s three-day competitors.
