Bangladesh NCL (National Cricket League) Twenty20

Bangladesh NCL (National Cricket League) Twenty20

Countries	Bangladesh
Administrator	BCB
Headquarter	Dhaka, Savar, Bangladesh
Format	Twenty20
First tournament	2010
Tournament format	Round-robin tournament and Knockout
Number of teams	6
Current champion	Rajshahi Rangers
Most successful	Rajshahi Rangers(1 title)
Most runs	Kings of Khulna Imrul Kayes(228)
Most wickets	Rajshahi Rangers Mukhtar Ali (12)
Website	NCLT20.com

The National Cricket League Twenty 20 (often abbreviated as NCL T20 or নাতীয়নাল ক্রিচ্কেত লেগ ), was a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). It includes 6 teams named by the divisions of Bangladesh. It has now been replaced by BPL.

The tournament is broadcast on Bangladeshi television channel ATN Bangla with all broadcasting rights to this television channel.The tournament has had much success in Bangladesh with the matches being watched in large amount of people in Bangladesh. The prize money was 7,000,000৳ and the runners up get 3,500,000৳. Also additional prizes included 50,000৳ for the fastest fifty and the most sixes.

History

First season

Rajshahi vs Kings of Khulna match at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium.

The inaugural season of the tournament started on 11 April 2010 and lasted for 9 days with 18 matches scheduled. The final was played in Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in Dhaka, Mirpur. Every team played once at the Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan No 2 Ground and the rest of their match at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium in a round-robin system. The top four ranking sides progressed to the knockout stage of semi-finals followed by a final. In this case Dhaka Dynamites finished first of the tournament qualifying with Kings of Khulna, Rajshahi Rangers and Sultans of Sylhet all qualified. Rajshahi Rangers defeated Kings of Khulna in a last over thriller and emerged as the inaugural NCL T20 champions.

Franchises

In the NCL T20 six companies so to buy a team in the tournament. The companies would go in to a lottery of which they were to pick one of six of an iconic player from Bangladesh who is of an exceptional standard. Then 3 of 18 of players who are of the Bangladesh national cricket team. They would be categorised into a certain class, getting paid a certain amount of money. No player could more than 400,000 Taka.

• A+ = 400,000 ৳
• A = 300,000 ৳
• B = 200,000 ৳
• C = 150,000 ৳
• D = 100,000 ৳

The team could also add two international players to their team.

Franchise	Owner(s)	Captain	Price (US$)	Location Map
Barisal Blazers	Aziz Al Kaiser Tito (Owner of Partex)	Shahriar Nafees	3,272,900৳ $47,000	Dhaka Dynamites Rajshahi Rangers Tusi Warriors Rajshahi Rangers barisal barrers Sultans of Sylhet Cyclones of Chittagong Kings of Khulna
Cyclones of Chittagong	Latifar Rahman Badal (Bangladesh Jiban Bima Corporation)	Nafees Iqbal	5,193,950৳ $73,000
Dhaka Dynamites	Shayan F Rahman (Beximco)	Mohammad Ashraful	6,545,800৳ $92,000
Kings of Khulna	Dr Mahfuzur Rahman (ATN Bangla)	Shakib Al Hasan	4,767,050৳ $67,000
Rajshahi Rangers	Hasan Imam (AB Bank, Citycell)	Khaled Mashud	6,118,900৳ $86,000
Sultans of Sylhet	Fazle Hasan Abed (BRAC Bank)	Mashrafe Mortaza	5,834,300৳ $82,000

Rules

The six teams have to go it a lottery to pick players for their teams based on the players talent put into categories A+, A, B, C, D. Also the teams can buy international players but there is a limit to two players in a playing squad at a time.

Some of the team composition rules are:

• Minimum squad strength of 16 players plus one physio, assistant coach and a coach.
• No more than 4 foreign players in the squad and at most 4 in the playing XI. The number allowed in the playing XI remains unchanged at four.
• As this is domestic cricket, so a minimum of 13 local players must be included in each squad.
• A minimum of two players from the BCB under-22 pool in each squad.

Some of the differences to international Twenty20 cricket:

• A difference to international cricket is a timeout. It gives the players an opportunity to strategise and take a drink during the strict 2-minute, 30-second time limit. Each team is awarded two timeouts per innings, totalling to four timeouts for the whole game. The teams can take the timeout when instructed, but it is necessary to take it at the end of 9th and 16th over.
• NCL T20 is also known for having commercials during the game, hence there is no time limit for teams to complete their innings. However, there may be a penalty if the umpires find teams misusing this privilege at their own choice.

The total spending cap for a franchisee in the first player auction was US $120,000. Under-22 players are to be remunerated with a minimum annual salary of US $1389 while highest for domestic is US $5556. The most expensive players in the NCL T20 to date are Shoaib Akhtar at US$18000.

Venues

Barisal	Chittagong	Dhaka	Khulna
Barisal Blazers	Cyclones of Chittagong	Dhaka	Kings of Khulna
Abdur Rab Serniabad Stadium	Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium	Bir Shrestha Shahid Flight Lieutenant Motiur Rahman Stadium
Capacity: 15,000	Capacity: 20,000	Capacity: 36,000	Capacity: 15,000
	Barisal Chittagong Dhaka Khulna Rajshahi Sylhet		Sylhet
Rajshahi Rangers			Sultans of Sylhet
Shahid Kamruzzaman Stadium			Sylhet Stadium
Capacity: 15,000			Capacity: 20,000

The venues are home grounds of all the stadiums of the represented city. The final would be played in the main Bangladesh stadium the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium

Winners

Performance of teams

List of statistics and records of NCL T20

TV rights

ATN Bangla will televise all matches Live and will showcast highlights.

External links

• NCL T20