World Cricket News: 2012 Bangladesh Premier League

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2012 Bangladesh Premier League

Logo of the 2012 Bangladesh Premier League

Administrator(s)

BCB

Cricket format

Twenty20

Tournament format(s)

Double round-robin and Knockout

Host(s)

Bangladesh

Champions

TBD

Participants

Matches played

TBD

Man of the Series

TBD

Most runs

TBD

Most wickets

TBD

Official website

Under Construction

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The 2012 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) season will be the first season of the Bangladesh Premier League. The season will commence on the 9th of February with the final to be played on the 29th of February.^[1]
The competition will start with a double round robin group stage, in which each of the 6 teams will play against every other team twice. These matches will followed by two semi-finals and a final.^[1]
The highest wicket taker will win the purple cap for being the top wicket-taking bowler while the highest run scorer will win the orange cap for leading run-scorer in the tournament. Best young player will be awarded the best under-19 player award and the special award for Fair Play will be won by the team who will play most fairly throughout the tournament.
Matches will be held in Dhaka and Chittagong with a total of six franchises taking part. The franchises will represent Dhaka, Barisal, Chittagong, Rajshahi, Sylhet and Khulna divisions. The franchise auction was held on January 10^[2] and the player auction will take place on 18 and 19 January.^[1] Each franchise will have to spend between US$2 million and US$5 million at the player auction.
On 21 December, the event Management Company bought the tournament title for six years for 44.33 million dollars, or at 354 crores.

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[edit] Logo Launching Ceremony

The official Logo Launching Ceremony of the Bangladesh Premier League T20 was held on December 29 in the Radisson Water Garden Hotel in Dhaka. The Ceremony started at 6 p.m BST (Local Time), which consisted of the organizers, the members of BCB, Special guests, Few Cricketers, etc. The Ceremony was followed by songs from Artists like Habib Wahid and Others, and dinner. The whole ceremony was broadcasted by Channel 9 of Bangladesh.how to start (BPL)

[edit] Opening Ceremony

Bangladesh Premier league opening ceremony will be arranged in world class standard. For this, a number of Indian companies submitted their proposals. This includes one of the Bollywood actor Chunky Pandey.
The opening ceremony will be for 2 and half hour. The culture and history of freedom fighting of Bangladesh will be display in this show. For BPL opening ceremony, popular bollywood star Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor,Deepika Padukone are likely to be present. The popular singers Shaan, Shreya Ghoshal and Sunidhi Chauhan will also arrive Dhaka in that time for BPL.
Excitement regarding Bangladesh Premier League (BPL)start to spread in Bangladesh. The news spread around already that Shahrukh Khan and Katrina Kaif will be involved with this tournament.
According to tournament organizing committee, India's most eye-catching singer Shreya Ghoshal will perform in the tournament kick off show. BPL player auction will be for two days on 18 and 19 th January. There will a kick off program for for BPL just before the player auction. Shreya Ghoshal will perfom in that show as well as other Bollywood and local start singer.
There will be a opening ceremony for BPL T20 Cricket tournament on 9 February before start of the tournament on 10 February. Tournament will held at in Mirpur Stadium, Dhaka and Chittagong Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury. Total 33 matches will be played. BPL franchises team auction held on January 10. The focus should be looking for Shreya Ghoshal show before the BPL players auction.,^[3]^[4]

[edit] Match Timings

First match of the day will start at 8:30 a.m GMT
Second match of the day will start at 12:30 p.m GMT

[edit] Venues

A total of 33 matches will be held including the final in this tournament. 25 matches will be played in Dhaka and the remaining 8 matches will be held in Chittagong.