Shakib heads the icon list of BPL 2016

According to the players’ draft of the fourth season of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan is in the crowning position in the list of icon cricketers. The floor price of Shakib is set in 55 lac Bangladesh Standard Currency.


Other icon cricketers in terms of base price are Mushfiqur Rahim (50 lac), Tamim Iqbal Khan (50 lac), Mahmudullah Riyad (50 lac), Mashrafe Bin Mortaza (50 lac), Sabbir Rahman (40 lac) and Soumya Sarkar (40 lac). Nasir Hossain is out of the icon cricketers list of this season.

For the sake of choosing teams for the icons, three methods were discussed primarily; these are – (1) An Icon cricketer will select his own team in according to his will; (2) Franchises will take icons with a collaboration to other teams according to their necessity; (3) Final decisions will be taken by Bangladesh Cricket Board. But at the end of the terms, BPL governing body has taken the decision of selecting icons through lotteries.

BPL Governing Body Chairman Afzalur Rahman Sinha said in this regard, “Icon cricketers of BPL will be selected through lotteries. Seven icon cricketers will be allotted to seven franchises. There is no possibility of bringing down any further changes in this regard.”

To keep a slight regularity in the teams, BPL Governing Body has also taken a major decision according to which each franchise can keep two of their previously taken cricketers in the team although it is not known whether those two cricketers include the icons or not.