Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) is like a circus. The eleventh season is underway. But every season BPL becomes questionable on some issue or the other. Reshuffle came in BCB after the change of political pot. Former captain Farooq Ahmed, after taking charge as the board president, said that he will eliminate various discrepancies in the BPL. But what happened! On the contrary, many important things have changed. The board does not know that! Former director Khaled Mahmud Sujon did not like these things. He said to the media on Sunday, 'Where is the new Bangladesh?'
Cricketers usually have a contract with the franchises. Which is provided by BPL Governing Council. The cricketers did not get the contract even after half of the tournament! Member Secretary of BPL Governing Council in Chittagong, Nazmul Abedin Fahim frankly admitted that he does not know anything about this! Apart from this there is another issue. No one has given a bank guarantee to BCB other than a franchisee. Former captain Sujan was surprised while talking about these issues.
Speaking about not paying the cricketers, the Dhaka Capital coach said, 'If I don't have 5-7 crore rupees, I assume the rest will come from the sponsor; It takes at least 8 crore rupees to make a team. Why should I buy a BPL team if I don't have 8 crore rupees? I didn't buy people expecting people to sponsor me. You may or may not get sponsored. And now in the market, how much money will you get sponsors? So what is the reason to buy BPL team? Why are you coming when you don't have money?'
He did not stop criticizing BCB on the issue of bank guarantee, 'We knew that bank guarantee is given in BPL, where is that bank guarantee? BCB is not guaranteed by the bank. So what is the role of BCB? The role of BPL Governing Council should be in these. If the bank does not guarantee, why should I give the party? Why do I have to do BPL? Why? We are coming to the new board, we have to do… So where is the new Bangladesh? It has become more old Bangladesh! We are all dreaming of a new Bangladesh, but it has become even older.'
