BCB President's Cup begins today
Country's competitive cricket returns to field
Sunday, 11 October 2020
The country's competitive cricket will return to the field after a gap of six months with a three-team BCB President's Cup 50-over Cricket Tournament beginning today (Sunday) at the Sher- e- Bangla national stadium in Mirpur in the city, reports UNB.
Mahmudullah Xl will play Najmul XI in the opening match today.(Sunday).
The event is part of the continuing initiatives of the BCB to resume normal cricketing activities gradually in the country which have been disrupted since March this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The tournament is expected to provide all leading and upcoming cricketers the opportunity for some quality competitive cricket in the current situation.
The national cricketers, cricketers of the High-Performance Unit and some selected players of the 2020 ICC U-19 World Cup champions Bangladesh team will play in the tournament under the leadership of Tamim Iqbal, MahmudullahRiyad and Najmul Hossain Shanto.
Apart from the final, six matches will be played on league basis. Every match will have a reserve day. This means, in case of any interruption, the game will roll into the reserve day.
Each team will face each other twice with the top two teams in the points table of league basis matches will play in the final on October 23.
All the matches will take place at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on day-night basis and all the matches will begin at 3:30 pm.
Due to the Covid-19 restriction, no spectator will be allowed in the stadium. The official website of BCB will update the score live. All the matches will be streamed live on BCB's YouTube channel.
In the dying moment on Saturday, it was learnt that, the BCB is likely to introduce some prize money to make the tournament an attractive and exciting one.
The prizes include man of the match awards for every match, man of the series award, apart from prize money for the champions and runners up teams.
To ensure health and safety standards for Covid-19, the players, support staff, match officials and relevant personnel including grounds and facilities staff will be placed in a bio-secure bubble for the tournament.