The Second Season Of The Bangladesh Premier League 2013

Launching Ceremony of The Bangladesh Premier League T20-

Bangladesh Premier League 2013
Logo of the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League
Countries  Bangladesh Administrator BCB Headquarter Dhaka, Bangladesh Format Twenty20 First tournament 2012 Next tournament 2013 Tournament format Double round-robin and knockout Number of teams 7 Current champion Dhaka Gladiators Most successful 1 Tournament Most runs Ahmed Shehzad (486) Most wickets Elias Sunny (17) in 12 Matches Mohammad Sami (17) in 11 Matches

The 2013 Bangladesh Premier League season, abbreviated as BPL 2 or BPL 2013, will be the second season of the Bangladesh Premier League, established by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) in 2012. The opening and closing ceremonies will be held Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur.  The tournament will begin on 18 January 2013 and end on 22 February 2013.

This time there are Seven teams in BPL session 2 named as Dhaka Gladiators, Sylhet Royals, Barisal Burners, CTG King, Duronto Rajshahi, Khulna Royal Bengals, & Rangpur Riders. All of 2013 Bpl 2 cricket match will be Broadcaster TV partner Channel 9 & Channel 9 UK.

Franchises:

The minimum bidding price for each franchise is $1 million. The franchise owners are now in possession of the franchise for six years and can only sell it after three years.

In the second edition of BPL, Rangpur Riderswas the seventh team to enter the tournament.

Team	Division	Owner(s)	Price	Captain	Head coach
Barisal Burners	Barisal	Alif Group Bangladesh	US$1.01 million	Azhar Mahmood	Tom Moody
Chittagong Kings	Chittagong	SQ Sports	US$1.20 million	Mahmudullah	Waqar Younus
Dhaka Gladiators	Dhaka	Europa Group	US$1.05 million	Mashrafe Mortaza	Ian Pont
Duronto Rajshahi	Rajshahi	Digital Auto Care	US$1.07 million		Robin Singh
Khulna Royal Bengals	Khulna	Orion Group	US$1.10 million		Saqlain Mushtaq
Sylhet Royals	Sylhet	Walton Group	US$1.06 million	Mushfiqur Rahim	Mohammad Salauddin
Rangpur Riders	Rangpur	I-Sports	US$ 1.01 million	Nasir Hossain	To Be Announced

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.

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.

Dhaka	Chittagong
Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium Capacity:26,000	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium Capacity:20,000

Shakib Al Hasan, the Bangladesh allrounder, fetched the highest price, going for $US 365,000. However, the amount was almost half of what Shahid Afridi, the former Pakistan captain, was sold for when the Twenty20 tournament was launched in February 2012. Imran Nazir, the Pakistani opener, was commanded the second-highest price tag, going for $US 280,000 with Afridi close behind at $US 275,000, while more than a dozen foreign players went for over $US 100,000.

Team-
Barisal Burners
Chittagong Kings
Dhaka Gladiators
Duronto Rajshahi
Khulna Royal Bengal
Sylhet Royals

Rangpur Riders

Player list-

• Icon players:

1. Shahriar Nafees (Barisal Burners)
2. Tamim Iqbal (Chittagong Kings)
3. Mohammad Ashraful (Dhaka Gladiators)
4. Shakib Al Hasan (Khulna Royal Bengal)
5. Mushfiqur Rahim (Duronto Rajshahi)
6. Alok Kapali (Sylhet Royals)

• Grade A ($45,000):

1. Mahmudullah
2. Abdur Razzak
3. Nasir Hossain
4. Junaid Siddique
5. Imrul Kayes
6. Mashrafe Mortaza

Player signings:

The first signing and auction of players for the 6 teams was held on 19 January at Hotel Radisson in Dhaka Bangladesh. The team auction was held on 10 January 2012. Each franchise was allowed to sign a total of 10 local players & 8 foreign players and can play up to 5 foreign players in each match. Each franchise also have one domestic icon player in their team.Pakistan's Shahid Afridi was the priciest among the players bought for $700,000 by Dhaka Gladiators. West Indian superstar Chris Gayle was bought by Barisal Burners for $551,000. Young Bangladeshi star Nasir Hossain was the priciest among local players bought by Khulna Royal Bengal for $200,000. The icon players of each team will get $210,000 which is 5% more than the highest paid local player Nasir Hossain.

From- Wikipedia