The Bangladesh Premier League governing council members conducted a meeting with the franchises of the tournament at the BCB headquarters in Mirpur on Saturday. In the meeting, it was decided that the next edition of the competition will see the introduction of Decision Review System (DRS).
DRS set to get introduced in BPL 2019
The tournament is slated to begin from January 5. It was further decided that players drafts will take place on 25th October.
“There will be review [UDRS] in the BPL. Each team will have a review in every innings. There will be one foreign umpire in each match,” BPL member secretary Ismail Haider was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz.
Players drafts of Bangladesh Premier League will be held in October
“Player draft will be held on 25th October,” said Ismail. “Each team can retain up to four players. The name of the [retained] players must be submitted by the clubs within September,” he further added.
“Each team can take two players from outside the draft. Everyone else will have to buy from the draft. The foreigners who have played BPL last time have to be drafted this year.”
The secretary of the tournament stated each franchise has the luxury of including two foreign players from those players who were not included in the drafts system last time around.
“The franchises can take two players from those who were not in the draft last time. The January 5th date may be pushed for a day. There are many good quality players. Since there will be the national election this year, our date of play has been pushed back to January [next year],” he said.
“The other leagues will start at that time. As a result, it has been decided to take two unregistered players to fill the number of players required by each team.”
Meanwhile, as per reports in the Cricbuzz, it is also learnt Sheikh Shohel will be the next action chairman of the tournament after the untimely demise of Afzalur Rahman last month.