The Bangladesh Premier League 2023, also known as BPL Season 9 or Ispahani BPL 2023 (for sponsorship reasons) was the ninth season of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), the top-level professional Twenty20 cricket league in Bangladesh, organized by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). In July 2022, after the International Cricket Council accommodated the month of January and February for this league in its Future Tours Programme, the BCB announced the schedule of the BPL for the next three seasons. Accordingly, the ninth season was scheduled to be held from 5 January to 16 February in 2023. BCB also decided to increase the number of teams to 7 and to sell the franchise rights for 3 years from this season.
BCB announced the list of franchise owners in September 2022, with five of the previous six franchises retaining ownership and the return of Rangpur Riders after two seasons. On 24 December 2022, BCB announced the fixtures for this season with two matches to be played per day in the group stage and having reserve days for all of the knockout matches.
In the final, Comilla Victorians defeated Sylhet Strikers by 7 wickets to win their second successive and overall fourth title.
Draft and squads
Before the draft Fortune Barishal signed up 10 players through direct recruitment, the most by any team. Unmukt Chand, former Indian cricketer also registered for the draft, being the only Indian so far to have registered in BPL's players' draft. Before the draft, each team was allowed to directly recruit only one domestic player and unlimited number of foreign players.
The players' draft was held on 23 November 2022.
Each team was allowed to pick a minimum of 12 players from the draft, at least ten local players and two foreign players. But there was no maximum limit of how many foreign players could be picked from the draft.
Chattogram Challengers Comilla Victorians Dhaka Dominators Fortune Barishal Khulna Tigers Rangpur Riders Sylhet Strikers Ziaur Rahman (c) Shuvagata Hom Afif Hossain Ashan Priyanjan Curtis Campher Mrittunjoy Chowdhury Vishwa Fernando Mehedi Hasan Rana Irfan Shukkur Mehedi Maruf Max O'Dowd Unmukt Chand Taijul Islam Abu Jayed Farhad Reza Tawfique Khan Tushar Nihaduzzaman Usman Khan Shahnawaz Dahani Al Amin Jr. Darwish Rasooli Vijayakanth Viyaskanth Malinda Pushpakumara Khawaja Nafay Avishek Mitra Imrul Kayes (c) Liton Das Muhammad Rizwan Mustafizur Rahman Hasan Ali Brandon King Khushdil Shah Abrar Ahmed Josh Cobb Mohammad Nabi Mosaddek Hossain Tanvir Islam Shaheen Shah Afridi Ashiqur Zaman Jaker Ali Sean Williams Chadwick Walton Saikat Ali Abu Haider Nayeem Hasan Mukidul Islam Mahidul Islam Aamer Jamal Fazalhaq Farooqi Dawid Malan Johnson Charles Naseem Shah Sunil Narine Andre Russell Moeen Ali Taskin Ahmed Chamika Karunaratne Dilshan Munaweera Mohammad Mithun Soumya Sarkar Shoriful Islam Arafat Sunny Nasir Hossain (c) Al Amin Hossain Shan Masood Ahmed Shehzad Alok Kapali Monir Hossain Ariful Haque Muktar Ali Mizanur Rahman Delwar Hossain Usman Ghani Salman Irshad Jubair Hossain Mohor Sheikh Abdullah Al Mamun Imran Randhawa Amir Hamza Robin Das Devon Thomas Alex Blake Shakib Al Hasan (c) Mahmudullah Riyad Mehidy Hasan Ibrahim Zadran Karim Janat Iftikhar Ahmed Mohammad Wasim Kusal Perera Usman Qadir Rakheem Cornwall Ebadot Hossain Anamul Haque Kamrul Islam Rabbi Fazle Mahmud Haider Ali Chaturanga de Silva Khaled Ahmed Saif Hasan Qazi Anik Sunzamul Islam Salman Hossain Dwaine Pretorius Reece Topley Bhanuka Rajapaksa Tamim Iqbal Avishka Fernando Wahab Riaz Shai Hope (c) Azam Khan Mohammad Saifuddin Yasir Ali Nasum Ahmed Nahidul Islam Munim Shahriar Sabbir Rahman Paul van Meekeren Shafiqul Islam Pritom Kumar Habibur Rahman Sohan Mahmudul Hasan Joy Andy Balbirnie Fakhar Zaman Sharjeel Khan Amad Butt Nahid Rana Mushfiq Hasan Mark Deyal Hasan Murad Nurul Hasan Sohan (c) Shoaib Malik Pathum Nissanka Sikandar Raza Haris Rauf Mohammad Nawaz Jeffrey Vandersay Sheikh Mahedi Hasan Hasan Mahmud Naim Sheikh Rakibul Hasan Jr. Shamim Hossain Patwary Ripon Mondol Azmatullah Omarzai Aaron Jones Rony Talukdar Parvez Hossain Emon Alauddin Babu Rabiul Haque Benny Howell Saim Ayub Mujeeb ur Rahman Tom Kohler-Cadmore Rahmanullah Gurbaz Naveen-ul-Haq Dasun Shanaka Nicholas Pooran Sam Billings Dwayne Bravo Mashrafe Mortaza (c) Mushfiqur Rahim Mohammad Amir Dhananjaya de Silva Kamindu Mendis Colin Ackermann Ryan Burl Mohammad Haris Thisara Perera Najmul Hossain Shanto Rejaur Rahman Raja Nabil Samad Tawhid Hridoy Rubel Hossain Tom Moores Gulbadin Naib Zakir Hasan Nazmul Islam Akbar Ali Sharifullah Tanzim Hasan Sakib Shamsur Rahman Shafiqullah Ghafari Imad Wasim Mohammad Irfan George Linde Isuru Udana Luke Wood
Venues ChittagongDhakaSylhetZohur Ahmed Chowdhury StadiumSher-e-Bangla National Cricket StadiumSylhet International Cricket StadiumCapacity: 20,000Capacity: 26,000Capacity: 18,500 Matches:12 Matches:26 Matches:8
Teams and standings Points Table
Advanced to Qualifier 1 Advanced to the Eliminator
League stage
Phase 1 (Dhaka)
Phase 2 (Chittagong)
Phase 3 (Dhaka)
Phase 4 (Sylhet)
Phase 5 (Dhaka)
Playoffs
Eliminator
Qualifiers Qualifier 1
Qualifier 2
Final
Statistics
Most runs Player Team Matches Runs High score Najmul Hossain Shanto Sylhet Strikers 15 516 89* Rony Talukdar Rangpur Riders1342567 Towhid Hridoy Sylhet Strikers1340385* Litton Das Comilla Victorians1337970 Shakib Al Hasan Fortune Barishal1337589* Source: Cricinfo.com
Most wickets Player Team Matches Wickets Best bowling Tanvir Islam Comilla Victorians12174/33 Hasan Mahmud Rangpur Riders14173/12 Nasir Hossain Dhaka Dominators12164/20 Azmatullah Omarzai Rangpur Riders11153/17 Rubel Hossain Sylhet Strikers8144/37 Source: Cricinfo.com
Highest team totals Team Total Opponent Ground ResultFortune Barishal238/4Rangpur RidersZohur Ahmed Chowdhury StadiumFortune Barishal wonComilla Victorians213/3Khulna TigersSylhet International Cricket StadiumComilla Victorians wonKhulna Tigers210/2Comilla VictoriansSylhet International Cricket StadiumComilla Victorians wonFortune Barishal202/7Chattogram ChallengersZohur Ahmed Chowdhury StadiumFortune Barishal wonSylhet Strikers201/8Dhaka DominatorsSher-e-Bangla National Cricket StadiumSylhet Strikers won
Source: Cricinfo.com
Prizes and awards The following prizes were given after the final match.
Category Amount Winner PerformanceChampion Comilla Victorians – Runner-up Sylhet Strikers – Player of the tournament Najmul Hossain Shanto (Sylhet Strikers) 516 runs; 1 wicket Highest run-scorer Najmul Hossain Shanto (Sylhet Strikers) 516 runs Most wickets Tanvir Islam (Comilla Victorians)Hasan Mahmud (Rangpur Riders) 17 wickets Best fielder Mushfiqur Rahim (Sylhet Strikers) 11 catches, 1 stumping Player of the final Johnson Charles (Comilla Victorians) 79 runs (52 balls)
References
External links
League home at ESPNCricinfo