168 overseas players added in BPL-4 draft

Admin Wed Sep 28, 2016 4:17 pm

The fourth edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is all set to begin on November 4. The Players’ Draft will be held on the 30th of September. Each team must draft a minimum of eight and a maximum of 11 players must be selected from the draft. Rajshahi and Khulna the two new BPL teams will get the first pick from each category and the second pick from the B, C and D categories.

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A total of 168 foreign players have registered for this year BPL. Each team have to pick a minimum of three and a maximum of 12 foreign players. BPL governing council has already made the list of ‘Players draft’. There are most 42 Pakistani cricketers, then England have 36, West Indies 35, Srilanka 15, Zimbabwe 12, Afghanistan 10, Australia 4, Netherlands 4, South Africa 3, Ireland 2, New Zealand 2, Scotland 1, Canada 1.

Let’s have a glance on the foreign players list:

‘A’ Catagory (70,000 USD) : Ryan Ten Doschate, Grant Elliot, Ahmad Shahzad, Misbah Ul Haque, Mohammad Hafeez, Harschelle Gibbs, Seekkuge Prasanna, Jason Holder, Lendl Simmons.

‘B’ Catagory (50,000 USD) : Liam Dawson, Jade Dernbach, James Vince, Chris Nash, Owais Shah, Azhar Mahmood, Shoaib Maqsood, Junaid Khan,Mohammad Asif, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Aizaz Cheema, Kamran Akmal, Sami Aslam, Mohammad Nawaz, Roelof Van Der Merwe, Graeme van Buuren, Chamara Kapugedara, Upul Tharanga, Sachithra Senanayake, Kaushal Silva, Ryad Emrit, Fidel Edwards, Denesh Ramdin, Assad Badyr Fudadin, Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite, Jerome Everton Taylor, Johnson Charles, Sean Williams.

‘C’ Catagory (40,000 USD) : Ben Hilfanhaus, Ben Laughlin, Yasir Arafat, Joe Denly, Ajmal Shahzad, Peter Trego, Graham Onions, Ross Andrew Whiteley, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Gary Wilson, Kevin O’Brien, James Franklin, Mohammad Irfan, Salman Butt, Abdur Rehman, Sohail Khan, Mohammad Rizwan, Faisal Iqbal, Asad Shafiq, Rahat Ali, Saeed Ajmal, Ehsan Adil, Zulfiqar Babar, Asad Ali, Bilawal Bhatti, Kyle James Coetzer, Jeevan Mendis, Milinda Siriwardana, Ravi Rampaul, Shane Shillingford, Navin Stewart, Andre Fletcher, Tino Best, Krishmar Santokie, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Suliman Benn, Kirk Anton Edwards, Brendan Taylor, Elton Chigumbura, Malcolm Waller, Hamilton Masakadza.

‘D’ Catagory (30,000 USD) : Rashid Khan, Ashghar Stanikzai, Najibullah Zadran, Dawlat Zadran, Noor Ali Zadran, Nawraz Mangal, Gulabdin Naib, Samiullah Shenwari, Shapoor Zardan, Hameed Hasan, Evan Gulbis, Tom Beaton, Nikhil Dutta, George Edwards, Tymal Mills, Max Waller, Kishen Shailesh Velani, Phil Mustard, Rob Ian Keogh, Adeel Malik, Luis Michael Reece, Michael John Richardson, Usman Arshad, James Foster, John Simpson, Daryl Mitchell, Mohammad Azharullah, Joshua Cobb, Alex George Wakely, Adam Rossington, Sajid Mahmood, Brett Hutton, Nathan Buck, Harry Gurney, Monty Panesar, Ahsan Malik, Mudasser Bukhari, Peter Boren, Rumman Raess Khan, Mohammad Hassan, Nasir Jamshed, Khalid Latif, Azeem Ghumman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Zafar Gohar, Amer Yamin, Muhammad Irfan, Hasan Ali, Khurram Manzoor, Shahzaib Hasan, Fawad Alam, Awais Zia, Anwar Ali, Imran Khan, Imran Khan Junior, Usama Mir, Ajantha Mendis, Lahiru Thirimanne, Udara Jayasundera, Ramith Rambukwella, Bhanuka Bandara Rajapaksa, Danushka Gunathilaka, Gihan Rupasinghe, Angelo Perera, Mohammad Naveed Saleem, Imran Khan, Akeal Hosein, Chris Barnwell, Miguel Cummins, Leon Johnson, Raymond Anton Reifer, Devon Sheldon Smith, John Dillon Campbell, Shimron Odilon Hetmyer, Veerasammy Permaul, Jonathan Lyndon Carter, Ronsford Rodwick Beaton, Kyle Rico Mayers, Danza Pacino Hyatt, Chadwick Walton, Jason Mohammed, Narsingh Deonarine, Craig Ervine, Chris Mpfou, Graeme Cremer, Neville Madziva, Vusi Sibanda, Sikandar Raza Butt, Sean Ervine.

Noted that, There will 46 matches, including three play-off games and the final. All matches will be held in Dhaka and Chittagong and will run for over a month, with the final slated for December 9.