{"id":193665,"date":"2025-10-11T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193665\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T21:58:08","slug":"next-edition-of-bpl-to-have-only-five-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/193665\/","title":{"rendered":"Next edition of BPL to have only five teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE <\/p>\n<p>           <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"cursor-pointer\" height=\"396\" width=\"595\" alt=\"The Expression of Interest (EOI) will be announced for the teams on Sunday\" title=\"The Expression of Interest (EOI) will be announced for the teams on Sunday\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/the-expression-of-interest-eo.jpg\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>The Expression of Interest (EOI) will be announced for the teams on Sunday \u00a9 Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> The next edition of the Bangladesh Premier League will be played between five teams in a compact window from mid-December to mid-January, BPL GC secretary Iftikhar Rahman Mithu said on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Iftikhar told reporters at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium that the decision was taken due to time constraints ahead of next year&#8217;s ICC T20 World Cup. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;The board has decided to host the BPL from mid-December to mid-January,&#8221; said Iftekhar. &#8220;Given the short window we have this year, we are comfortable with five teams. That doesn&#8217;t mean it can&#8217;t be six or seven in the future, but our priority is to stage a five-team BPL within a one-month window,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;We have to finish in the month of January. The window he mentioned, we have to finish before the February World Cup,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I am not saying that it cannot be six or seven but at this point we are comfortable running it with five teams in this one-month window. So, our priority is the first five teams. We are starting fresh this year. The Expression of Interest (EOI) will be announced tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> It is possible that reigning BPL champions Fortune Barishal will not take part in next edition of BPL. Tamim Iqbal, who is leading the Fortune Barishal side, recently announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricbuzz.com\/cricket-news\/135872\/dccoa-declares-boycott-of-all-cricket-in-dhaka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they are boycotting<\/a> all kind of cricket under the leadership of Aminul Islam terming him as illegal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Iftekhar insisted that they are hoping Fortune Barishal would come forward and take part in the competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;My request is that it would be good if they (Fortune Barishal team) come,&#8221; said Iftekhar. &#8220;I can&#8217;t force anyone to come. We welcome them; they have run their team well and we have never had any complaints. So, we always want well-managed teams like theirs to participate. We are open, but we can&#8217;t force anyone. From my perspective, considering the effort they put in and the following they built in Barishal&#8230; my request is that it would be good if they came,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> Iftekhar added that they will be very strict in choosing their franchises due to all the controversies that erupted in last edition of BPL over financial concerns. <\/p>\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\"> &#8220;The problems we faced in the last BPL were mainly related to the franchises. So, the selection of the franchise will be very strict. If the financials aren&#8217;t right, if the management isn&#8217;t right&#8230; you might be a big group with good financials, but you need people for cricket management as well. We will primarily look at these things,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p> \u00a9 Cricbuzz <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANGLADESH PREMIER LEAGUE The Expression of Interest (EOI) will be announced for the teams on Sunday \u00a9 Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-193665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}