Barisal Blazers

Barisal Blazers
Captain:	Shahriar Nafees
Coach:	Zafrul Ehsan
Colors:	Green and Black
Owner:	Partex
Founded:	2009
Home ground:	Abdur Rab Serniabad Stadium
Capacity:	15,000
Official website:	Official website

Barisal Blazers (often abbreviated as BB) is the franchise representing Barisal in the Bangladesh NCL (National Cricket League) Twenty20, a Twenty20 cricket tournament. The team is led by Shahriar Nafees. Shahriar Nafees is the team's Icon Player. The official colors are green and black. The team also has three players who are iconic. In Barisal Blazers there is all rounder Ziaur Rahman who has been producing great bowling any batsman would look out for. Also the middle order batsman Raqibul Hasan who can keep the runs ticking. And also the big hitting batsman Nazimuddin who once scored 80 runs off 60 balls which stands the record for the Bangladesh cricket team as the highest individual score in t20 cricket. They are owned by Partex, a company which is made for value for money for the poor with emperprising business.

Cricket Ground

The cricket ground for the Blazers is the Abdur Rab Serniabad Stadium. So all their home matches are played at this stadium.

Barisal Divisional Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Barisal, Bangladesh. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches. The stadium holds 15,000 people.

Owners

The group started modestly in 1959 in tobacco trading and with prudent entrepreneurship of our Founder Chairman Mr. M.A. Hashem today we have a stake in tobacco, food, water, soft drinks, steel container, edible oil, wooden board, furniture, cotton yarn and the IT sector. After Bangladesh was established our Chairman set up M/S Hashem Corporation (Pvt) Ltd. in Chittagong city meeting the large demand of food and materials needed for sustaining the needs of a new nation through imports. From importing to import substitution was the next logical step and the stepping stone into the manufacturing sector, which has matured to the multi million dollar diverse investment of the Partex today.

2009/10 Season

On the 13 of April, The Blazers started with a sobering defeat on their first match against Dhaka Dynamites at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium where they lost the match in the final over with five balls to spare. Shamsur Rahman of Dhaka was awarded man of the match scoring 41 runs off 41 balls.This was a disappointing start.

On the 14 of April, Barisal was playing against Rajshahi Rangers for their second match at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Dhaka. They comfortably won by 7 wicket with 23 balls remaining of the game. Mahmudul Hasan was given the man of the match award for picking up 3 wickets for only 16 runs.

On the 15 April, the Blazers played Cyclones of Chittagong at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 2 Ground in Savar north of Dhaka. They lost by 8 wickets with 37 balls remaining as a terrible defeat. Kamrul Islam from Cyclones of Chittagong was given the man on the match award for picking up 4 wickets for 23 runs.

On the 16 of April, for their fourth match at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Dhaka they were to play Sultans of Sylhet. They lost the match by 4 wickets with 4 balls remaining. Indika de Saram from Sultans of Sylhet got the man of the match award scoring 39 runs off 66 balls.

On the 18 of April, Barisal lost their final match of the group stage against Kings of Khulna at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium. Barisal lost by 45 runs against the Kings. Abdul Razzak of Kings of Khulna got the man of the match award taking 3 wickets for 17 runs.

Barisal Blazers finished bottom of the table losing 4 out of 5 of their matches.

Current squad

2009/10 season

External links

• NCL T20 Website